JUDITH GINABREDA DELGADO

PAST CONTINUOUS FORM
 I
 HE/ SHE WAS + ING
 IT
VERBS ENDING IN E: ING
WE WRITE: WRITTING
YOU VERBS ENDING IN Y: YING
THEY PLAY: PLAYING
CARRY: CARRYING
1 SYLLABLE CVC: WE DOUBLE C
DROP: DROPING
RUN: RUNNING
CLAP: CLAPPING

PAST CONTINUOUS USES
 WE USE THE PAST CONTINUOUS TO TALK
ABOUT A SPECIFIC SITUATION IN THE PAST AND
IMAGES...
 AFIRMATIVE SB+WAS/WERE+ING+COMPLEMENT
 SHE WAS CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN.
 THEY WERE CLEANING THE HOUSE.
 NEGATIVE SB+WASN’T/WEREN’T+ING+COMPLEMENT
 I WASN’T SINGING THIS SONG.
 THEY WEREN’T WATCHING THAT PROGRAM.

PAST CONTINUOUS USES
 WE USE THE PAST CONTINUOUS TO TALK
ABOUT A SPECIFIC SITUATION IN THE PAST AND
IMAGES...
INTERROGATIVE INVERSION
-WAS YOUR FATHER
GOING TO THE CINEMA? WAS/WERE+SUBJECT+
ING+COMPLEMENT
-WERE YOUR FRIENDS
DRIVING THE CAR?

AT MY BROTHER’S PARTY LAST WEEK...
 Mark was meeting his girlfriend and they were hugging and
kissing.
 Fabio and his friend Josephine were dancing and having a
great time together.
 Sylvia wasn’t drawing she was explaining us something
personal.
 Were all the boys wearing a suit? No, they weren’t
 Was Sylvia wearing a blue skirt? Yes, she was.

PAST SIMPLE
 USES: We use the past simple to talk about pat
finished actions.
 PAST EXPRESSIONS: Last week, last summer,
last year, last month...
 AGO(at the end)
 EXAMPLES:
 I did an spanish course last mouth
 He enyoyed his party last summer
 My sister sing 3 years ago Finished actions

QUESTION
QUASI= (Question
word)+auxiliary(DID)+SB+inf?
 Where did you study last night?
 When did you meet your friend Rossie?
 Negative: SB + didn’t +
infinitive+complement
 We didn’t meet our friend Rossie at school.
 They didn’t visit us at convis.

PAST CONTINUOS AND PAST SIMPLE
TOGETHER
 Past Continuos= LONG ACTIVITY
 Past Simple= Interrumped/Short
WHEN + past simple
WHILE + past continuos
 I was chatting with my friend Noah WHEN.
My mum came into my room
 We were explaining the Past Continuos
 WHEN Alex’s students opened the door.

WHILE= LONG ACTION
While I was playing with my ipad, my
brother enter to my room.
While he was singing this song, my
sister broke the chair.
He was listening to the news while his
mother was climbing (2 actions)