Past simple vs past continuous

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3

Fake News

Read your book for 10 minutes

Today: Practise the words and grammar

Past simple & Past continuous

Twee vormen van verleden tijd:

- Past simple 

- Past continuous 

Vorm van de past simple & past continuous

Past simple	Past continuous
OF: ww + (e)d bv: walk - walk ed , dance - danc ed	1. verleden tijd van to be ( was of were)
OF: eigen vorm bv. teach - taught , drive - drove , pay - paid	2. ww
? Did + hele ww bv. Did I walk?	3. ing
- didn't + hele ww She didn't pay	He was danc ing , they were talk ing , I was sleep ing

Gebruik van de past simple & past continuous

Past simple	Past continuous
Een gebeurtenis in het verleden met een duidelijk begin en einde.	Een gebeurtenis in het verleden die enige tijd duurde (aan-het-doen)
Yesterday I cooked dinner for my family.	I was reading a book (when.......)
This morning I went to the dentist.	She was visiting her grandmother (when...)

Past Simple / Past Continuous?


I ... (enjoy) the sun last Sunday.

1. enjoyed
2. have enjoyed
3. had enjoyed
4. had been enjoying

Past simple / Past Continuous
He .... (listen) to music when his mother ...(call) him

1. listened / was calling
2. were listening / called
3. is listening / calls
4. was listening / called

Past simple / Past continuous
I ....( break) my mirror while I ...( park) my car.

1. breaked / was parking
2. broke / was parking
3. broke / were parking
4. break / am parking.

past simple / past continuous
While I ...( study) my sister suddenly ( knock) on the door.

1. was studying / knocked
2. were studying / knocked
3. studied / knocked
4. studied / was knocking.

Past Simple <> Past Continuous
My friend ___ (to ring) me while I was watching TV.

1. were ringing
2. rang
3. rung
4. was ringing

Past Simple / Past Continuous
The internet ___ (not exist) in 1980.
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Assignment

Today: Practise the words and grammar

Work on: 

Exercise 1; Reading and listening to news items

Exercise 2; Deciding what news is fake and what news is real

 Exercise 3; Writing short news item scripts

Exercise 4; Presenting news items