Past Continuous Past continuous tense The farmer was working at 6 o’clock yesterday evening.

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Past Continuous

Past continuous tense The farmer was working at 6 o’clock yesterday evening

Iwas playing You We They were He She It was

Past continuous tense wasI playing? were you we they was he she it I Was not Wasn’t playing You We They were not weren’t He She It was not wasn’t I n t e r r o g a t i v e N e g a t i v e

Uses of the past continuous We use the past continuous tense to describe a past action over a period of time What were they doing yesterday at 8 o’clock? They were working all day.

This time yesterday the hairdresser was working We use the past continuous to say that somebody was in the middle of doing something at a certain time.

Past simple and past continuous are used together when something happened in the middle of something else The policeman broke his ankle while he was running after the dog

The past simple and the past continuous do not mean exactly the same. Compare: When Mary arrived, we were having dinner. This means that we already started dinner before Mary arrived. When Mary arrived, we had dinner. This means that Mary arrived first and then we had dinner.

Time expressions: While, as, when. While the band was playing a mobile phone rang.

What were Mike and Louise doing yesterday?

When the teacher arrived at school…

didn’t see was looking met were going was going had were waiting was cycling stepped was going managed didn’t hit

Cora was reading a letter when Jimmy phoned her Andy was coming out of the restaurant when he saw Jenny

Practice: Do you have a good memory? Are you a good witness? 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… Ready, go ….

One minute…

What do you remember? 1.How many people were there? 2.Where were the people? 3.What was hanging from the ceiling? 4.What was the bank robber holding? 5.What was the bank robber wearing? 6.What color was his hair? 7.What was covering the bank robber’s face? 8.Was the bank robber right-handed or left-handed? 9.What was the bank manager doing? 10.What was the bank teller doing? 11.Who was walking into the bank? 12.What time was it? 13.What was on the bank manager’s desk? 4 In a bank A video camera A gun Blue shirt, brown jacket, beige trousers Blond A red scarf right-handed Talking on the phone Putting the money into the bag A policeman 10:25 Phone, book, and a lamp