Mastering Past Continuous: Interrupted Actions

Mastering Past Continuous: Interrupted Actions
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This lesson contains 13 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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Mastering Past Continuous: Interrupted Actions

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Learning Objective
Understand the usage and structure of the past continuous tense for interrupted actions.

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What do you already know about the past continuous tense?

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Recap: Past Continuous
Past continuous is formed with was/were + verb-ing and is used to describe ongoing actions in the past.

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Interrupted Actions
We use past continuous for actions that were interrupted by another action in the past.

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Keywords
Common keywords for interrupted actions include 'while', 'when', and 'as'.

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Practice: Identifying Interruptions
Interactive activity to identify interrupted actions in given sentences.

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Creating Sentences
Guided task to create their own sentences using the past continuous for interrupted actions.

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Listening Comprehension
Listen to a short audio clip and identify the interrupted actions in the story.

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Application in Context
Discuss how past continuous for interrupted actions is used in real-life situations.

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Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Slide 11 - Open question

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.
Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Slide 12 - Open question

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.
Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

Slide 13 - Open question

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.