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    To Show What Somebody Was Doing at A Particular Time in The Past, We Use The Past Continuous Tense

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    The document provides examples and explanations for using the past continuous tense in English. It discusses how the past continuous is used to describe what someone was doing at a specific time in the past. Several examples are given of sentences correctly using the past continuous tense. The document then explains how the past continuous can be used along with the past simple tense to describe two simultaneous past actions. More examples are given to illustrate this.

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    To show what somebody was doing at

    a particular time in the past, we use


    the Past Continuous Tense.
    I was playing badminton
    at this time yesterday.

    She was cycling


    at 9:00am yesterday.

    They were playing


    table tennis at 6:30 last night.

    was / were verb+ing


    Simon 3:00 yesterday

    was playing football at 3 pm yesterday.


    Simon _________

    The children 8 am yesterday

    were going to school


    The children __________
    at 8 am yesterday.
    Exercise.
    Derek

    Derek was swimming at 6 am yesterday.

    Mandy

    Mandy was feeding her dog at 4 o’clock yesterday.

    Sam & Jess

    Sam and Jess were having dinner at 8 pm last night.


    We often use
    the past continuous and past simple tenses
    in the same sentence.

    We do this when we want to talk about


    a shorter activity that happened
    during a longer activity in the past.
    Sam hurt himself yesterday.
    But when exactly?

    when jumping over


    the vaulting horse

    Sam hurt himself when he was jumping over the vaulting horse.

    shorter action longer action


    cut herself cut herself
    Nancy ___________when
    was peeling
    she ___________an apple.
    peel an apple

    were watching TV watch TV


    They _______________
    arrived
    when I ___________.
    arrive

    play football were playing football


    We ____________
    when it suddenly _______.
    rained
    rain
    A fire broke out
    at 8 o’clock last night!
    What were the people
    doing when the fire
    broke out?
    Sometimes we use the past continuous tense
    to talk about two or more actions
    which were taking place at the same time
    in the past.

    Example

    I was playing TV games while mother was cooking.

    We were studying while the baby was crying.


    It’s 3:00pm last Sunday. What were they doing?

    Example
    Grandfather was reading the newspaperwhil grandmother was knitting.
    whil eNicky was drawing a picture.
    Cindy was listening to the Hi-fi
    whil emother was drinking some water.
    Father was sleeping
    e
    What were they doing one hour later?

    Exercise
    was watching while grandmother____________.
    Grandfather ____________TV was knitting
    was her homework while Nicky ____________to
    dy _________ was listening the Hi-
    doing
    was drinking
    Father ____________ beer while mother was boiling
    ___________ some wate
    Wanna take a challenge?
    Let’s solve a mysterious
    crime together!
    Mr. Chan was
    Today is murdered at around
    Tuesday. 9 o’clock last night.
    Mr Chan lives with five
    flatmates. One of them must
    have killed Mr Chan.
    But who is it?
    Kelly
    Grace
    Andy

    Alan Dave
    What were you doing at 9 o’clock last night?

    watch movie, cinema,


    with friend Maggie

    I was watching a movie at the cinema


    with my friend Maggie at 9 o’clock
    last night. I didn’t kill Mr Chan!

    Is she the
    Yes murderer? No
    What were you doing at 9 o’clock last night?

    visiting my friend,
    Kevin, hospital,

    I was visiting my friend Kevin at the hospital


    at 9 o’clock last night. I didn’t kill Mr Chan!

    Is she the
    Yes No
    murderer?

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