Past continuous Anecdotes Past continuous Questions Unit 9 – Things Happen … Past continuous Anecdotes Past continuous Questions

Background to story or tell about events in progress in the past. P85 – Warm up Broke something “Last week I broke my cellphone. I was walking down the street talking to a friend and I dropped it”. Completed actions Background to story or tell about events in progress in the past. I was walking / talking Past Present Broke my phone

I was watching the show when I took a picture of this

And later this

And a blurry shot of this … yes, say sorry!

Grammar Time. The past continuous is used to talk about actions and events in progress in the past. Subject + was / were + present participle. I was talking They were watching a movie. Subject + wasn’t / weren’t + present participle. I wasn’t paying attention. We weren’t looking.

Grammar Time. It is also used to set the background for a story, to tell about longer actions and events. I was going to work, and I was talking to a pretty girl. Simple Past with Past continuous. The simple past is often used for shorter actions that happened – and were completed – during the time of another, longer one (which is expressed with past continuous) I was talking to another girl when my girlfriend came into the room. My teacher caught me cheating when I was taking the exam. A friend of mine deleted all my files when she was using my computer.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Sr63_EDBc Have you ever had a bad day ? A good one ?

Alphabet body parts On the back of your paper from yesterday (with partner) … A = B = … Z = Three mins … go …

A = arm, adam’s apple, ankle B = back, brain C = calf , chin, cheek D = DNA, derriere E = eyebrows, eyelashes, elbow, eye, elbow F = face, forehead, foot, funny bone, finger G = groin H = Head, heart, hip, hand I = intestines, index finger J = jaw, jugular K = kidneys, knuckles, knee L = lips, lungs, liver, leg M = mouth, N = nose, neck O = ovaries, P = palm, posterier Q = quadracep R = ribs, rib cage S = shin, shoulder T = thigh, toes U = ulna (bone in arm) V = veins W = waist, womb, wrist X = X-chromosome Y= Y-chromosome Z = zygomatic bone (cheek)

P88 Make a list of true sentences about accidents. Break – usually bone Sprain – muscle or tendon Tore / tear – muscle or tendon Cut - skin Hurt – non-specific pain Other – headaches, black eyes

Using questions Was/were + subject + verb-ing ? (yes/no) Was he / she skiing when she broke her leg? Were you skiing by yourself? Whq + was/were + subject + verb-ing (asks about actions or events in progress in the past) Where were you playing soccer + (when … )? What were you doing + (when you hurt yourself)? Who were you playing with + (when … ) ?

Past continuous and Simple Past Q’s Past continuous -(asks about actions or events in progress in the past) A. What were you doing when you fell ? (what activity was in progress as you fell?) B. I was skating when I fell. Simple Past – (ask about completed actions / events) What did you do when you fell? (what did you do after you fell?) I called for help. P.89 A & B

I don’t enjoy skiing by myself. Do you? Look at the chart – What were you doing ? How did it happen? Did you hurt yourself? I don’t enjoy skiing by myself. Do you? Look at the chart – P89 3A “by” means alone.

3A. A. What’s wrong with your finger? Did you cut yourself? B. Yeah, I accidently cut myself with a knife. Oh, were you making dinner? 2. A. My father hurt himself at the gym. B. That’s too bad. Was he lifting weights? A. Yeah. A lot of people hurt themselves on weight machines, I guess. 3. A. Hey, where did you get that black eye? Oh, my mom … Well, that’s good. Uh, so were you driving? 4. A. My sister was hiking by herself last week, and she broke her ankle. She was in the middle of nowhere. B. Oh no! So, how did she get help? I mean, was anyone else hiking on the trail?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlhLOWTnVoQ What was he doing? What happened to him? What did he have to do to himself to escape? Could you do that to yourself? Other movies you know … explain … He was + verb-ing …

Lesson C – That’s hilarious