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This lesson contains 17 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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Past Simple vs Past Continuous

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past simple vs past continuous
Refreshing our memories
The rule(s)
Practice exercises

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  • een tijdstip, feit, gebeurtenis in het verleden

  • om te zeggen wat je toen aan het doen was

  • korte gebeurtenis 
past simple

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How do we make it?

werkwoord + ed    of  2e rijtje onregelmatige ww

  • I was playing a game when my brother rushed in.
  • They were kissing when the phone rang.

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  • een vorm van to be in de verleden tijd (was/were) + ww-ing

  • I was playing a game when my brother rushed in.
  • They were kissing when the phone rang.
past continuous

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When do we use it?
  • om te zeggen dat iets in het verleden op een bepaald moment aan de gang was. > Langere gebeurtenis. 

  • The band was playing a song.
  • It was raining all day!

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Simple past
Past continuous
was cycling
were doing
cried
slept
was studying
watched
was reading

Slide 7 - Drag question

Past simple or Past continuous?

I was having a shower.
A
Past simple
B
Past continuous

Slide 8 - Quiz

Past simple or Past continuous?

She ate an apple yesterday.
A
Past simple
B
Past continuous

Slide 9 - Quiz

In een zin met de past continuous EN de past simple, onderbreekt de .............. de .................... .
A
past simple de past continuous
B
past continuous de past simple

Slide 10 - Quiz

Past Simple and Past Continuous
Olga ___ (play) volleyball
when she was eight years old.
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Slide 11 - Open question

Past Simple or Past Continuous
What ___ Leo ___ (do)
when you called him yesterday?
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Slide 12 - Open question

Past simple or Past continuous:
My sister (do) the dishes when I (come home
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Slide 13 - Open question

Past Simple or Past Continuous
The internet ___ (not exist) in 1980.
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Slide 14 - Open question

past continuous or past simple::
Jack ........... (smoke) a cigarette
when the headmaster ............. (see) him.
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Slide 15 - Open question

Fill in: Use the past continuous
We _______________ (write) a letter when I received a text.

The clock _______________ (tick) .

A wind ______________ (blow), it gave a cold sensation.

past simple vs past continuous

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Fill in: Use the past continuous
We _______________ (write) a letter when I received a text.

The clock _______________ (tick) .

A wind ______________ (blow), it gave a cold sensation.

past simple vs past continuous

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