Past Simple & Past Continuous

Presentation

Simple Past/ Past Continuous

By Teacher: Migdalis Yángüez

1. Introduction

Index

2. Past Simple

2.1 Past Simple Structure

3. Past Continuous

3.1 Past Continuous Structure

4. Examples: Past Simple/ Continuous

5. Practice

6. Video

6. End

Introducction

There are two principal past tenses used to make general statements about the past: The past simple and the past continuous. The two tenses are quite different.

Past Simple

Use the past simple to talk about an event which happened at some point in time in the past.

Past Simple Structure

Positive Subject + Verb + ed OR Irregular Past Form + Objects I, You, He, She, We, They > played golf yesterday afternoon. I, You, He, She, We, They > went lunch at noon. Negative Subject + did not (didn't) + Verb + Objects I, You, He, She, We, They > didn't go on vacation last summer. Subject + did not (doesn't) + Verb + Objects Questions (Why, What, etc.) + did + Subject + Verb + Objects? Did > I, you, we, they > attend the meeting last week?

Past Continuous

1. The past continuous is usually used to refer to events happening at the same time that something important happened in the past.
2. The past continuous is also used to express what was happening at a precise moment in the past.

Past Continuous Structure

Positive Subject + conjugate the helping verb "be" + verb + -ing. I was, You were, He was, She was, We were, You were, They were > watching TV when I arrived. Negative Subject + conjugate the helping verb "be" + not + verb + -ing. I wasn't, You weren't, He wasn't, She wasn't, We weren't, You weren't, They weren't > working when he came into the room. Questions Question word + conjugate the helping verb 'be' + subject + verb + -ing What > were you, they > doing at seven o'clock? What > was I, he, she > doing at seven o'clock?

Examples

Continuous

Simple

+ - ?

Practice

Video about the topics

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