1. PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS
How to form these verbal tenses (revision)
How to use them together
Examples and exercises

2. Past Simple Tense Regular Verbs: We add –ED to the verbs
- walk → walked
- try → tried
- stop → stopped
- love → loved
Irregular Verbs: We use the form of the second column of your irregular verbs list.
BUILD built built
GO went gone
SWIM swam swum
PUT put put

3. Past Simple Tense Affirmative Sentences - I / He walked in the park
- I / He went to the park
Negative Sentences
- I / He didn’t walk in the park
- I / He didn’t go to the park
Interrogative Sentences
- Did you / he walk in the park?
- Did you / he go to the park?
Short answers
- Yes, I / he did (walk / go).
- No, I / he didn’t (walk / go)

4. Past Continuous Tense
We use the past tense of the verb “TO BE” (was / were) as an auxiliary verb
We add the –ING form of the main verb.
- PLAY→ PLAYING
- SWIM → SWIMMING
- WRITE → WRITING
Both are necessary
- We were playing …
- They were swimming…

5. Past continuous Tense Affirmative Sentences
- I was walking/ He was walking in the park
- I was going / He was going to the park
Negative Sentences
- I wasn’t walking in the park
- He wasn’t going to the park
Interrogative Sentences
- Were you walking in the park?
- Was he going to the park?
Short answers
- Yes, I / he was (walk / go).
- No, They weren’t (walk / go)

6. Past Simple and Continous
Past Continuous
We use it to refer to a past action finished in a specific time
Key Works: … ago, in 1492 (years), the other day, a long time ago, last month (time expressions), …
It is also used with frequency adverbs to refer to habits in the past.
Examples:
Columbus discovered America in 1492.
I was born in 1990.
She was born 12 years ago.
She always played the piano when she was a girl.
A durative or an unfinished action in the past.
A durative action which is interrumpted by another action.
It describes the situation of an action.
I was going to the beach but I changed my mind.
While I was reading, someone phoned you.
She was walking in the sun and the birds were singing,…

7. Past Simple and Continuous Use of WHEN and WHILE
Describe the situation in English
RINGGGG, RINGGGGGGG!

8. Past Simple and Continuous Use of WHEN and WHILE
When the phone RANG, he WAS PLAYING the piano. He WAS PLAYING the piano when the phone RANG. While he WAS PLAYING the piano, the phone RANG. The phone RANG while he WAS PLAYING the piano.

9. Past Simple and Continuous Use of WHEN and WHILE
These two tenses can be combined in the following way:
WHEN + PAST SIMPLE TENSE
- When I woke up, the sun was shining
- The sun was shining when I woke up.
WHILE + PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
- While she was playing the piano, the doorbell rang
- The doorbell rang while she was playing the piano.
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