1.2 Past Continuous + Listening activity

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome 

What are we going to do today?

• Goals for today
•  Recap last week
• Freytag's Pyramid or plot structure
  
• New item grammar: past continuous
• Time to practice

Freytag's Pyramid

Exposition

> the start of the story

> the protagonist is introduced

> the (main/first) setting is described

> something happens

Rising Action

> events unfold

> things happen

> more problems

> more exciting

Climax

> most exciting

> problems at max

> can't stop reading/ playing/watching

Falling Action

> main problem is solved

> other (minor) problems are resolved

> questions are answered

Denouement/ 

Resolution

The they-lived-happily-

ever-after-stage

Let's check our answers!

Past continious:

Who remembers the past continuous?

Past continious

Was/ were + verb+ing

I   was                 

You were

He/she/it was     

They were

We were

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 do we use the past continuous?

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

Example: Caroline 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 do we create the past continuous?

Was/were + verb-ing 

• I was teaching when someone came in.
• He was calling his grandpa when I fell down. 

• 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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