Past Simple & Past Continuous

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

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Gap Fill

Correct or Incorrect?

Then: past simple & continuous

Expectations

- use English as much as possible - mistakes? No problem!
- be active and participate in the class
- laptops half-closed when not in use
- listen to the person who has the floor


- finished everything in class? = no extra homework!

Let's identify the past simple and past continuous together

Past Simple

= completed actions, facts in the past

It was winter. I needed to go to London. 

Ms. D watched Captain America last weekend. 

= yesterday , last week, last year, five minutes ago, last Monday...

• Past Continuous
  
  = longer actions/situations in progress at a time in the past
  + setting the scene (background)
  
  
• It was snowing and the traffic was moving really slowly. 
  Ms. Dangerfield was watching the movie and eating popcorn at the same time. 

Past simple

Past continuous

What was the last movie you watched?

Answer with a full sentence (past simple)

What tv show were you watching a month ago?

Answer with a full sentence (past continuous)

Past continuous with the past simple

You can use the 2 together to talk about 2 actions that happened at the same time = met 2 acties die tegelijkertijd plaatsvonden

Past continuous = longer action in progress = langer durende actie

Past simple = short action (that interrupts the long action) = korte actie (die de lange actie onderbreekt)

Ms. D was watching the movie in the dark when somebody knocked on the door.

While or when ? = to join 2 actions in the past

while + long action => past continuous

when + short action => simple past

I was walking past the car when it exploded.

When the car exploded, I was walking past it.

The car exploded while I was walking past it.

While I was walking past the car, it exploded.

activity 1

activity 2

Practice - do the activities on the worksheet:

1. choose 'was, were, weren't, wasn't'

2. pick between past simple or past continuous

3. complete the story with the past simple and continuous