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PAST PROGRESSIVE

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Created on July 4, 2023

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Transcript

Past Progressive

Uses

  • DeSCRIBE AN ACTION INTERRUPTED BY OTHER
  • tWO ACTIONS HAPPENING AT THE SAME MOMENT
  • AN ACTION THAT WAS IN PROGRESS AT A SPECIFIC TIME

Affirmative structure

Subject+ was/were + verb ing+ complement
YESTERDAY AT 5PM

SHE WAS_______

WHAT WERE YOU DOING YESTERDAY AFTERNOON?

DURING LAST SUMMER

I WAS_______

ALL NIGHT

THEY WERE___

AT 3 PM YESTERDAY

WE WERE___

Negative structure

Subject+ was/were NOT + verb ing+ complement

MENTION

What weren't they doing?

Interrogative structure

was/were+ Subject+ verb ing+ complement?

YOU

WORKING

WHERE

were

SHE

SLEEPING

was

HE

RUNNING

was

Complete the sentences

Richard ______(work) on his computer at 9 o’clock yesterday. When I came into the living room, the cats_______ (sit) on the table. I __________(read) an article in the newspaper. The children________ (watch) a film on TV at that time. Helen ________(listen) to the radio when she heard a noise in the garden.

WHAT WERE YOU DOING when the teacher arrived?

past progressive

past simple

to use them we need key words

when while

when while

+past simple

past progressive

Lucy was walking when the car crashed

+past progressive

past simple

past progressive

Lucy was walking while the car crashed

You can write them in 2 ways

Lucy was walking when the car crashed

when the car crashed, Lucy was walking

Lucy was walking while the car crashed

while the car crashed, Lucy was walking

when while

+past simple

past progressive

+past progressive

past simple

past progressive

when while

+past simple

past progressive

+past progressive

past simple

past progressive

when the teacher arrived

1. Ana was reading2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Activity

Diary Entry: Write a diary entry about a memorable day. Describe what you and others were doing at specific times throughout the day. Example: "At 8 AM, I was eating breakfast while my brother was watching TV. Later, at 2 PM, we were playing in the park when it started raining."

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