Dear Students,.
The Lesson today is about Past Continuous Tense/ Progressive VS Past Tense.
Please watch these videos.
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
The Tasks:
Write down the sentences from video 1 and 2 which show Past Continuous Tense and Past Tense.
Video 3 as an example :
Story of the week with Grammar Andy.
A busy day in the Past Progressive.
Yesterday, I was walking the dog, when my phone rang.
It was my boss. A teacher was feeling sick, so she needed me to fill in.
As I was running to my car, it started to rain.
When I arrived at school, my boss was waiting outside.
She told me another teacher's car broke down. I was working for the rest of the day.
Note :
1. Why do we use the Past Progressive?
To show the order of events.
2. How do you use the Past Progressive?
Subject + tobe + Verb-Ing
- You are saying ..
- It was snowing.
- They were laughing.
3. Some examples:
Tell me what you were just doing.
We were driving to work.
We were going to work.
I was crying because my team lost.
What were you doing yesterday?
