Unit 2.2: Past Simple + Continuous

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Today's planning

• 2.2 Grammar 
• Explanation
• Practice

Goals

I can use the Past Simple and Past Continuous to describe past events

Past Simple & Continuous

Read the text and answer the questions. 

Pay attention to the underlined and bold words.

My weekend

I did many things over the weekend. On Friday I was cooking pasta when the bell rang. I walked to the door and got a flower delivery. I went back to the kitchen and finished cooking the pasta. After dinner my husband and I watched a movie while I was putting on a face mask. On Saturday my husband and I drove from Utrecht to Maarssen and went to an escape room. While we were escaping we got stuck in one of the rooms and security had to free us. It was quite the adventure. On Sunday I went to IKEA with my sister. We met up with my dad while we were shopping and stopped for some Swedish meatballs on our way out.

A short story...

A crazy trip to Vietnam

My friends and I went to Vietnam. We were biking through the beautiful Ha Giang region in August 2015. As we were biking, we saw the beautiful landscape and hill tribe people. We got to our hotel and ate a lovely dinner called Pho. There were lots of vegetables and a strange meat we had never seen before. We tasted the soup and thought it was delicious! We left the restaurant and were walking home when we saw a sign with a photo of the soup. We asked a man what it meant. He told us that it says: dog. That's when we realised that we had eaten dog by mistake!

A crazy trip to Vietnam

My friends and I went to Vietnam. We were biking through the beautiful Ha Giang region in August 2015. As we were biking, we saw the beautiful landscape and hill tribe people. We got to our hotel and ate a lovely dinner called Pho. There were lots of vegetables and a strange meat we had never seen before. We tasted the soup and thought it was delicious! We left the restaurant and were walking home when we saw a sign with a photo of the soup. We asked a man what it meant. He told us that it says: dog. That's when we realised that we had eaten dog by mistake!

A short completed action in the past. 

Verb + ed or the irregular verbs.

I finished work early and went home.

My parents called me yesterday.

Sam played basketball when he was at university.

A longer action in progress in the past.

was/were verb+ing

I was working in the teacher's lounge on Thursday.

We were cleaning the house all morning.

I was playing 'grocery store' with my daughter.

Past Simple

Past Continuous

A short action in the past. 

Verb + ed or the irregular verbs.

I finished work early and went home.

A longer action in progress in the past.

was/were verb+ing

I was working in the teacher's lounge on Thursday.

Past Simple

Past Continuous

Combination of the Past Simple & Continuous: 

a longer action (PC) is interupted by another action (PS). 

I was watching Stranger Things in the dark when somebody knocked on the door.

My computer ... (crash) when I ... (do my homework last night.

I ... (watch) a film when my mum ... (get) home yesterday.

I ... (burn) myself when I ... (make) breakfast.

Make a sentence to tell me:
wat gebeurde er terwijl je aan het lezen was?

2.2 Past Simple & Continuous

Go to page 20. 

Complete exercises 4 and 6. 

Check your answers: 

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Ex. 4

Ex. 6

Let's PRACTICE with a SONG

Song Challenge!

1. Listen to the song

2. underline = past continuous

circle = past simple

GROUP with the most correct wins!

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Reflect

I can use the Past Simple and Past Continuous to describe past events

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