5 Past Continuous Tense HSX

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1-3

The past continuous tense

Een voorbeeld

Table of Contents:

*  Lesson Aims

* Past Continuous Form

* Usage

* Spelling Rules

* Differentiation Past Simple - Past Continuous

* Past Continuous Exercises

* Video explanation (in Dutch)

Lesdoelen

Je weet hoe de past continuous eruit ziet/ hoe je hem moet 'maken'. 

Je weet wanneer je hem moet gebruiken.

Hoe ziet de past continuous eruit?

Subject + to be (past tense)+ V + -ing

Even oefenen

Maak een zin met de continuous tense erin met deze 2 woorden:

1) Dad run

2) I think

3) We fish

Usage:

Wanneer gebruiken we de past continuous?

1) Als je wil aangeven dat iets op een bepaald moment in het            verleden aan het gebeuren was.

2)Om een vervelende en herhaalde actie in het verleden te                benoemen. 

1) Als je wil aangeven dat iets op een bepaald moment in het verleden aan het gebeuren was. 1/2

Voorbeelden: 

I was doing the dishes when the phone rang. 

He was playing the piano when I came in.

At ten o'clock I was dancing.

2)Om een vervelende en herhaalde actie in het verleden te benoemen. 

Voorbeelden:

He was always talking about his mother in law.

Mom was always complaining about dad.

*  We gebruiken we hier altijd 'always' bij.

Examples:

Spelling Rules:

Spelling rules for Past Continuous Tense:

Verbs ending with -e: Ex: make - making / drive - driving

Verbs ending with -ee: Ex: agree - agreeing / see - seeing

Verbs ending with a consonant preceded by a vowel: Ex: hit - hitting / let - letting / put - putting

Two-syllable verbs: the last consonant is doubled when the last syllable is stressed:

Ex: forget - forgetting / prefer - preferring / upset - upsetting 

Verbs ending with -ie: Ex: lie - lying / tie - tying

Verbs ending with -c: Ex: picnic - picnicking 

Verbs ending with -y: Ex: carry - carrying / hurry - hurrying / enjoy - enjoying 

Exceptions!: age - ageing -aging / dye - dyeing / enter - entering 

Differentiation Past Simple - Past Continuous:

Past Continuous Exercises:

We gaan nu een aantal vragen krijgen. Eerst meerkeuze, daarna open vragen.

Julia (to sleep) at three o'clock.

1. has been sleeping
2. slept
3. was sleeping
4. has slept

Mrs. Brown (not/ to walk) in the garden when the murder happened.

1. walked not
2. had not been walking
3. has not walked
4. was not walking

When you arrived at the party, ..... John and Ann( to sing) .....?

1. singing
2. sang
3. were .... singing
4. had .... already sung

When I saw you and Lucy last night, what .... you (to carry)?

1. were .... carrying
2. did ... carry
3. have .... carried
4. was .... carrying

The protestors ........ (to storm) the US Capital when VP Mike Pence ............. (to speak) to Congress.

1. is storming ... spoke
2. were storming ...was speaking
3. stormed ...was speaking
4. had stormed ... spoke

Write down the correct form.

David (to read) in his room when the murder happened.

Donald Trump (to sit) ....... in the bunker at the White House when the protestors (to attack) ....... the US Capital police officers.

During the Olympics, the African marathon runners (to run) ....... at a good pace from start to finish.

During vacation, the family members (to picnic) ........ close to the beach.

James (to drive) ......... home from work during a thunderstorm when a tree was struck by lightning and fell on the road.

Resumerend

De lesdoelen waren:

Je weet hoe de past continuous eruit ziet/ hoe je hem moet 'maken'. 

Je weet wanneer je hem moet gebruiken.

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