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Welcome!
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Writing assignment
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Road map
Recap Past Simple & Past Continuous
Discuss 1.1B
Grammar Past Simple & Present Perfect
Work on assignments
Books: your MO on the books you have read should be finished in the test week of period 2!
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Lesson Goal
At the end of this class you
apply the past simple and the past continuous correctly
and
you can recognise the present perfect know how to form them, and when to use them.
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Recognise - the past simple
I pulled the door open. Augustus wore a black suit, narrow lapels, perfectly tailored, over a light blue dress shirt and a thin black tie. A cigarette dangled from the unsmiling corner of this mouth. 'Hazel Grace', he said, 'you look gorgeous'.
John Green - The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
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Past simple
Something is clearly in the past with no link whatsoever to the present
Signal words: yesterday, two days ago, last night etc. (adverbs of time)
'When I was staying with my parents, they told me ...'
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Past simple - timeline
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Recognise - Past Continuous
I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention. Mom was looking at me, concerned. She had just said something. What had she just said? Then I remembered.
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (2012)
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The past continous
The past continuous shows us that the action started and finished in the past and can also show that an activity was in progress for some time, not just for a moment.
temporary actions/events
annoyance/irritations
planned event in the near future
interrupted/parallel actions
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Past Continuous - timeline
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Past simple & continuous -timeline
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Past simple & continuous
Can you see the difference in meaning in these two sentences?
When the guests arrived, Jane was cooking dinner.
When the guests arrived, Jane cooked dinner.
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Past simple & continuous
Can you see the difference in meaning in these two sentences?
When the guests arrived, Jane was cooking dinner.
When the guests arrived, Jane cooked dinner.
In the first one, Jane started cooking dinner before the guests arrived. We know that because it uses the past continuous. In the second sentence, the guests arrived first and then Jane started cooking.
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Past simple & continuous
When we use these two tenses together, it shows us that the past simple action happened in the middle of the past continuous action, while it was in progress.
*** While I was studying, I suddenly felt sleepy.
We often use these tenses to show an action interrupting another action.
