1.2 Past Continuous + Listening activity

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 2

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What are we going to do today?

• Goals for today
•  Recap last week
• Activity time
• New item grammar 
• Time to practice
• Round off
• Reflection

Goals for today at the end of this class...

• Recapped the use of the Past Simple.
• How to use the Past Continuous.
• When to use Past Simple and the Past Continuous.
• Practiced with your listening skills.

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How would you summarise this video? (try to do this in 3 sentences)

Question of the day

Do you believe it is fair that so many foster kids are being cast out by the system when they turn 18?

The Jackson family ............ a huge sack of crisps last month.

1. took
2. take
3. taken
4. taked

Make two sentences which you are using one of the verbs:
to go, to wait, to dislike, to grow, to build

Irregular verbs

to break - ……. - broken

1. breaked
2. broke
3. broked
4. brokked

Oh no, the story is missing some important PAST SIMPLES, could you help mister Hulst to finish the story?

if not then....

look at the picture

Activity time!

Fill in the correct form of the past simples into the lyrics

Can you get them all?

What do you think is going to happen next?

Let's check our answers!

Would you like to do a similar activity next time as well?

The past continuous 

Pay attention

Take notes

Listen carefully 

The past continuous

Do you see the pattern? 

They were waiting for the bus when the accident happened.

Caroline was skiing when she broke her leg.

When we arrived he was having a bath.

When the fire started I was watching television.

When does one past continuous?

Something was going on in the past-> then something else happened in the past

Example: Caronline was skiing when she broke her leg

Something was going on for a while in the past 

She was doing homework for hours yesterday evening 

How does one past continuous?

Was/were + verb-ing 

• I was teaching when someone named the plant
• He was calling his grandpa when I fell down the 

stairs

• They were cleaning the classroom when the

lights went off

Yesterday I 1..................................(go) to the Post Office,
2..................................
(buy) some fruit at the supermarket and
3.....................................
(read) a book in the park in the afternoon.

He ............................
(work) in the garden when he
........................................(find) the money.

I 1(walk) along the road when I
2(meet) an old friend

1. 1. Was walking 2. met
2. 1. walked 2. was meeting
3. 1. walking 2. meeting
4. 1. was walking 2. was meeting

Practice 

Extra help 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCXbgzJoQmk

Exercise 2

https://www.myenglishpages.com/english/grammar-exercise-past-progressive.php

Exercise 1

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-continuous-exercise-1.html

Helpful quiz game

https://www.helpfulgames.com/subjects/english/348-past-continuous-progressive.html

Extra help 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC9l4Fis83w

You know how to make a sentence using the past continuous

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You know the difference between the past continous and past simple

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