Past Continuous

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Past Continuous

Planning

• Uitleg past continuous                                      (30 min)
• Oefenen past continuous                                 (20 min)
• DoorEngels                                                              (25 min)
• Toets inzage                                                            (15 min)

What do we remember?

about the present continuous?

Examples

When I was sleeping, my cat jumped on the bed.

We were watching you while you were doing the dishes.

I was driving to work when I got a flat tire.

She was cooking dinner while the kids were playing outside.

We were watching TV at 8 p.m. last night.

I laughed at the joke.                             I was laughing at the joke.

Past simple

An action or fact from the past.

Can be multiple (habit) or a single event.

Now

Past

Future

Thing

Past continuous

An action in the past that took some time.

Can happen at the same time as something else.

Now

Past

Future

Action

When to use?

We were watching TV at 8 p.m. last night.

I was looking at presents to buy for christmas yesterday.

Last week, he was not sleeping at all.

She was working all day yesterday.

They were singing karaoke for a while last night.

2 actions at the same time

Long + short:

I was walking home, when my phone rang.

Long + long:

You were swimming in the pool, while the sun was shining.

Forms

+

Form of "to be"

I                   was

you             were

she/he/it   was

we/they     were

Verb+ ing

talking

teaching

eating

sleeping

Special -ing

verbs ending in a silent -e

have    > having

ride      > riding

game  > gaming

remove the -e

verbs ending in -ie

lie      > lying

tie     > tying

replace -ie with -y

Special -ing

verbs that stress the last syllable and 

end in 1 vowel + consonant (not x, w, y)

sit        > sitting                      rebel           > rebelling

run      > running                  commit       > committing

stop    > stopping                 control        > controlling

buy     > buying                     remember > remembering

double the last letter

travelling = British

traveling = American

cancelling = British

canceling = American

Questions

I was drowning.

Was I drowning?

You were laughing.

Were you laughing?

Negatives

I was writing.

I was not writing.

We were running.

We were not running.

To be + not

Was not > Wasn't

Were not > Weren't

Practice

make a sentence using the 

past continuous

What did we learn?

When do we use the past continuous?

How do we use the past continuous in a sentence?

What is the difference between the past simple and past continuous?

what is the difference between the present continuous and past continuous?

DoorEngels

Instructions and procedures

Reading instructions

Listening to instructions

Filling out a travel expense form

NO Warming up & At work

Deze week af = bij

Listening to instructions A2 & B1/B2 = 

following spoken instruction A2/B1

Filling out a travel expense form A2 & A2/B1 = 

Claiming your expenses B1/B2