Past Tenseand Past Continuous Verbs bewerkt HV2

Simple Past and
Past Continuous


Simple Past Tense
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Actions, events, states that started and
finished in the past (…ago, last …,
yesterday… )
Regular verbs: -ed
Irregular verbs: 2nd column


Tell your partner – use past
simple
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What did you do yesterday?
What did you do Friday night?
Where were you Saturday morning?
How did you do celebrate your last birthday?


Practice:

Do you have a good memory?
Are you a good witness?
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Directions: Look at the following picture for
one minute. Try to remember as many
details as you can, but don’t write anything.


Only one minute…
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Ready, go ….


One minute…


What do you remember?
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7.
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How many people were there?
Where were the people?
What was hanging from the ceiling?
What was the bank robber holding?
What was the bank robber wearing?
What colour was his hair?
What was covering the bank robber’s face?
Was the bank robber right-handed or left-handed?
What was the bank manager doing?
What was the bank teller doing?
Who was walking into the bank?
What time was it?
What was under the bank manager’s desk?


One minute…


Past continuous
Gebruik 1) Om te beschrijven wat bezig was in
“het verleden”
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What were you doing at 9 in the evening?
I was watching TV

We were playing Monopoly


Past continuous
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I
You
He

was
were
was

She
It
We
You
They

was
was
were

were
were

ww + ing


Tell a classmate – use past
continuous verbs: I was _______ing
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Where were you last Thursday at 8 p.m.? What
were you doing?
What were you doing Friday at 5 p.m.? Where
were you? Who were you with?
What were you doing Sunday morning at 7 a.m.?
What were you doing last night at nine o’clock?
What were you doing last Saturday afternoon?


Past Continuous, continued
Gebruik 2) Twee bezigheden tegelijkertijd

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Sorry, I wasn’t listening to you while you

were talking.
While I was reading, he was writing.


Simple past met past continuous in
één zin, gebruik 3
past continuous geeft aan wat
bezig was
I was crossing the street …when
the driver ran through the red
light.
Past simple geeft aan de actie
die de handeling onderbreekt


Other examples:

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I was sleeping when the telephone rang and
woke me up.

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He was driving too fast when he crashed the
car.


More Examples:
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We were watching the news when the
announcer made a special live report.

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I was trying to study when you called.


Form of Past Continuous
Subject + was / were + verb+ing
Negation:
Subject + was / were + not + verb+ing
Yes/ No Question:
Was / Were + subject + + verb+ing ?
Information Question:
(WH) + Was / Were + subject + + verb+ing ?


Remember –ing spelling rules?
Verb ending in...

(Most verbs)

1 vowel + 1 consonant

1 vowel + 1 consonant + E

Final –ie

How to make the -ING form

Add -ING

Double the consonant, then add -ING

Examples
say - saying
go - going
walk - walking
swim - swimming
hit - hitting
get - getting

Remove E, then add –ING

come - coming
lose - losing
live – living

Change –ie to y, then add -ING

die – dying
tie -- tying


A little practice
The telephone (ring) when I (take a shower).
The telephone rang when I was taking a shower.
I (eat) dinner when you (come) in.

I was eating dinner when you came in.
It (rain) while they (walk) home.
It was raining while they were walking home.
We (see) an accident when we (drive) on the freeway.
We saw an accident when we were driving on the
freeway.


A little practice 2
She (chop) onions when she (cut) her finger.
.She was chopping onions when she cut her finger
We (watch) TV when the electricity (go) out.
We were watching TV when the electricity went out.
My dad (do) the dishes while my mum (send) an email.
My dad was doing the dishes while my mum was
sending an email.


Final Tips …
Use while for two actions in progress at the
same time in the past: Gelijktijdigheid
 She was talking while he was driving.
Use when for an action that was in progress that
was interrupted by another event in the past):
 I was just leaving when you called.
(handeling bezig)

(“storing”)

Punctuation
with When and While
When and while at the front of a sentence, use a
comma:
When you called, I was watching TV.
While he was washing the clothes, I was doing the
dishes.
 When and while in the middle of a sentence, no
comma
I was watching TV when you called.
I was doing the dishes while he was washing the
clothes.
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