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.

Can we use the Past Simple and the Past Continuous in 1 sentence?

1. Yes
2. No

With words like 'yesterday', 'last week', and 'two years ago' we ALWAYS use:

1. Past Simple
2. Past Continuous

She often ..... the piano when she was 10.

1. play
2. was playing
3. played
4. plaid

Yesterday she ..... at a hotel in Brussels.

1. was staying
2. stays
3. stayed
4. staid

Past Simple vs. Past Continuous

My sister .............. (walk) in while I was doing my homework

1. walked
2. was walking

Past simple vs. Past continuous:

They ____ (talk), when the teacher ___ (get) angry.

1. was talking - got
2. were talking - got
3. talked - was getting
4. talked - were getting

Past Simple vs. Past Continuous

When they .... (talk) we .... (hear) something

1. was talking - heard
2. were talking - heard
3. talked - was hearing
4. talked - were hearing

Past simple vs. Past continuous:

He ____ (break) his leg, when he _____ (play) frisbee.

1. breaks - played
2. broke - was playing
3. was breaking - played
4. broke - played

Past simple vs. Past continuous:

I ______ (fall) asleep, while I ________ (watch) TV.

1. fell - watched
2. was falling - was watching
3. was falling - watched
4. fell - was watching

Past simple vs past continuous
The lights ....................(go out) while I .................(eat) dinner

1. go out / was eating
2. went / was eating
3. gone / was eating
4. went out/ was eating

I __________ (read) while he _______(play) videogames

1. was reading / was playing
2. read / was playing
3. read / played
4. was reading / played

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

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Homework:

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

study: vocabulary unit 2 lesson 2 and 3