Past Tenseand Past Continuous Verbs bewerkt HV2

Simple Past and Past Continuous... Simple Past Tense Actions, events, states that started and finished in the past …ago, last …, yesterday…  Regular verbs: -ed  Irregular verbs: 2n

Simple Past and Past Continuous

Simple Past Tense

 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

 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?

 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 colour 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 under the bank manager’s desk?

One minute…

Tell a classmate – use past

continuous verbs: I was _ing

 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

 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

More Examples:

announcer made a special live report.

 I was trying to study when you called

Form of Past Continuous

Subject + was / were + verb+ing

Remember –ing spelling rules?

Verb ending in How to make the -ING form Examples

(Most verbs) Add -ING say - saying go - going

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.

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.