1.2 Past Continuous + Listening activity

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This lesson contains 26 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 3 videos.

time-iconLesson duration is: 90 min

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Welcome 

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What are we going to do today?
  • Goals for today
  •  Recap last week
  • Freytag's Pyramid or plot structure
  • New item grammar: past continuous
  • Time to practice

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Freytag's Pyramid

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Exposition
> the start of the story
> the protagonist is introduced
> the (main/first) setting is described
> something happens

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Rising Action
> events unfold

> things happen

> more problems

> more exciting

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Climax
> most exciting

> problems at max

> can't stop reading/ playing/watching

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Falling Action
> main problem is solved

> other (minor) problems are resolved

> questions are answered

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Denouement/ 
Resolution

The they-lived-happily-
ever-after-stage

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Slide 9 - Video

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Slide 11 - Video



Let's check our answers!

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Past continious:
Who remembers the past continuous?

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Past continious

Was/ were + verb+ing
I   was                 
You were
He/she/it was     
They were
We were

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The past continuous
Do you see the pattern? 

They were waiting for the bus when the accident happened.
Caroline was skiing when she broke her leg.
When we arrived he was having a bath.
When the fire started I was watching television.

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When do we use the past continuous?
Something was going on in the past-> then something else happened in the past
Example: Caroline was skiing when she broke her leg.

Something was going on for a while in the past 
She was doing homework for hours yesterday evening 

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How do we create the past continuous?
Was/were + verb-ing 

  • I was teaching when someone came in.
  • He was calling his grandpa when I fell down. 

  • They were cleaning the classroom when the
lights went off.

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Slide 18 - Video

Yesterday I 1..................................(go) to the Post Office,
2..................................
(buy) some fruit at the supermarket and
3.....................................
(read) a book in the park in the afternoon.

Slide 19 - Open question

He ............................
(work) in the garden when he
........................................(find) the money.

Slide 20 - Open question

I 1(walk) along the road when I
2(meet) an old friend
A
1. Was walking 2. met
B
1. walked 2. was meeting
C
1. walking 2. meeting
D
1. was walking 2. was meeting

Slide 21 - Quiz

You know how to make a sentence using the past continuous
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Slide 23 - Poll

You know the difference between the past continous and past simple
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Slide 24 - Poll

Give a tip and a top for this lesson

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