Mission 15 past simple and continuous II

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 6

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Shakespeare

• 12 September 2025  - 19.00
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Mission 15

past continuous and the past simple

plurals

Lesson goal

At the end of today's class you indicate that:

- you understand how to use the past simple and past continuous in the same sentence. 

Past simple & continuous

Can you see the difference in meaning in these two sentences?

When the guests arrived, Jane was cooking dinner.

When the guests arrived, Jane cooked dinner.

Past simple & continuous

used to show that the past simple action happened in the middle of the past continuous action, while it was in progress.

used to show an action interrupting another action.

I fell asleep

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While I was studying

Mission 15

Do ex. 6 & 7 

Ready?

Continue with ex. 8

Check

vocab 3 - online

mind: a six-week holiday

a thousand-page book!

Check

4 and 5

what is the grammar rule?

regular?

irregular?

Homework

Study the theory on the plurals and the past simple and continuous

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