THE PAST CONTINUOUS

THE PAST CONTINUOUS

A. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson , students will be able to know the past continuous and do
the exercises correctly.
B. Procedures:
A.Grammar:
The past continuous: ( Thì quá khứ tiếp diễn).
a. Công thức: S + was/ were + Ving.
b. Cách chia: + I ( he, she, it) + was working.

We ( you, they) + were working.
- I( he, she, it) + Was not working

( was not = wasn’t).

We ( you, they ) + were not working ( were not = weren’t).
? Was I ( he, she, it ) working?
Were we ( you, they) working?.
c. Cách dung:
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Thì quá khứ tiếp diễn dùng để diễn tả một hành động kéo dài ở quá khứ trong khoảng thời
gian kh ông xác định.
Ví dụ: It was getting warmer and warmer.

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Nếu trong câu có thời gian xác định thì thì quá khứ tiếp diễn diễn tả hành động xảy ra vào
một thời điểm xác ddingj cụ thể, thường dung với cụm từ” at…. O’clock”.
Ví dụ: What were you doing at 8 pm yesterday?

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Thì quá khứ đơn và thì quá khứ tiếp diễn được dùng khi một hành động này đang xảy
ra( quá khứ tiếp diễn), thì hành động khác xen vào ( quá khứ đơn).
Ví dụ: When I was cooking, he came.

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Thì quá khứ tiếp diễn được dùng để diễn tả hai hành động xảy ra song song với nhau. Liên
từ while thường đươc dùng trong trường hợp này.
Ví dụ: I was reading a book while my mother was cooking dinner.

B. Exercises:
I. Write sentences with the cue words, using the past progressive tense.
1. They/ play/ tennis/ 10.30 yesterday morning.

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2. Ann/ do/ homework/ 5 o’clock this afternoon.

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3. My father/ wash/ car/ from/ five to six.

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4. This time last year/ we/ live/ France.

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5. The students/ offer/ flowers/ the visitors.

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6. I/ cook/ dinner/ half an hour ago.

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7. She/ work/ the studio/ that time.

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8. What/ you/ do/ from 3 to 6 yesterday afternoon?


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9. I/ write/ my report/ 8 o’clock last night.

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II. Put the verbs into correct form: past progressive or past simple.
1. The doorbell (ring) ______ while Tom (watch) _______ television.
2. How fast _______ you _______ (drive) when the accident (happen) ______ ?
3. Anna and Susan (make) ______ dinner when Martin (arrive) ______ home.
4. The light (go) ______ out while we (have) ______ dinner. But it (come) ______ again after

about ten minutes.
5. “What _______ you (do) ______ this time yesterday?” – I (work) ______ on the computer.”
6. It suddenly (begin) ______ rain while Laura (sit) ______ in the garden.
7. It (be) ______ cold when we (leave) ______ the house that day, and a light snow (fall)

_______.
8. When I last (see) ______ them, they (try) ______ to find a new house near their work.
9. I (walk) _______ along the street when I suddenly (feel) ______ something hit me in the back.

I (not/ know) _______ what it was.

10. When we (drive) _______ down the hill, a strange object (appear) _______ in the sky.

III. Complete the passage with the most suitable words.
Torquay is one of the (1) ______ popular holiday resorts in Britain. (2) ______ provides
entertainment, sports of every kind, etc. You can (3) ______ at the hotels by the sea, or at a
comfortable expensive (4) ______ houses. There (5) ______ camping sites, too. Torquay has large
sandy beaches (6) ______ you can buy refreshments and hire (7) ______ to sit on. There are
large areas of grass land and miles of cliff paths (8) ______ walkers.


*Homework:
- Learn by heart the structure of the past continuous tense.
- Do the exercises again.
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