past simple versus past continuous

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Past Simple vs Past Continuous

Past Simple + Past Continuous

Examples

• While Lisa was doing her homework, Mike went to the supermarket.
• I was reading when my mother called me.
  
• They were doing their homework when I came in.

Past Simple vs Past Continuous

SIMPLE

CONTINUOUS

• verb + -(e)d
• happened in the past and is finished
• Signal words:

      yesterday, last week,               when

• was/were + verb + -ing
  
• happened in the past and is still going on
• Signal words:

      while, at that moment, at that time

Past ContINGuous

Past Simple + Past Continuous

• Together in 1 sentence to say that something happened (Past Simple) while something else was already going on (Past Continuous)
  
  
• The short action = Past Simple  
   the long action = Past Continuous

_____ honest

_______understood

_______ regular

_______ sufficient

______ patient

______-scientific

______ popular

im

dis

mis

ir

in

non

un

Homework:

Do: unit 2 lesson 2 exercise 17-18-19-21-22 ONLINE

study: vocabulary unit 2 lesson 2 and 3