Tài liệu Active grammar 2 part 13 ppt

You use the post tense For actions the past continuous in the past which are not Finished.. Grammar Help You can use the past continuous tense in stories fo describe a particular scen

In A Strange Dream the writer tells us what people

were doing at a certain time in the past The tense

for this is the past continuous

We were walking along Town Street

| was carrying the flowers

Dad was holding his wallet

Someone in the bank was firing a gun

Compare Sentence A and Sentence B below

Their meanings are not the same

Sentence A | We walked along past simple

Town Street

Sentence B § We were walking pas† continuous

along Town Street

In Sentence A the action is finished In Sentence B the action is not finished

You use the post tense For actions the past continuous

in the past which are not Finished These tense is the past

Writers sometimes use the past continuous to tell us

what was happening at the beginning of a story

It was a beautiful morning in

the middle of May The sun was

shining, the birds were singing

and everyone in Upper Dingleton

was feeling glad to be alive

Jenny was busy in her kitchen

She was making a special pie

for dinner that night

Grammar Help You can use the past

continuous tense in

stories fo describe a

particular scene

The two types of past tense, simple and continuous,

are sometimes used together

Jenny was busy in her kitchen

She was making a special pie

for dinner that night when

suddenly the telephone rang

While she was washing her

hands to answer the telephone,

someone knocked loudly on the

front door

While your class was learning

about the past simple, my class

was learning about the past

continuous

Grammar Help

You can use the past

continuous tense for

an action which is

interrupted by a

second action For

the second action, you use the past

simple tense

You can use the past continuous tense For

two long actions

which happen at the

same time

Past continuous tense 85

To make the past continuous tense, you use two

verbs

Verb 1 is called a helping verb In a continuous tense,

the helping verb is always a part of the verb be

continuous, use the |

present tense of be Cam,

ore, is)

Tam playing

present you are eating

continuous he is talking

they are running

To make the past |

continuous, use the

| post tense of be Gwas,

I was playing past you were eating

continuous | he was talking

they were running

Verb 2 is called the main verb In a continuous

tense, the main verb is always in the -ing form

Tam playing present you are eating

they are running

Another name for the

I was playing -ing form is present

= participle

continuous | he was †alking

they were running

PRACTICE

1 What was happening on the beach at 3 p.m yesterday? Fill each blank with the correct past

Continneys tense (b) Bill

oe PP SỐ a sandcastle

(a) Katy

(fly) her kite

(4) Bill's father

(read) a magazine

2 Work in pairs Find out what your friend

was doing at the times shown below Make

sentences like this:

a_ five minutes ago:

b half an hour ago: _

c at this time yesterday:

Past continuous tense 87

@ Talking about the future

(What are you going to do?)

Do you ever send postcards to people? Sally does

Dear Grandma,

We're all having a lovely holiday here in stamp

Penang Yesterday we spent the day at

the hotel Most of the time we swam

and played in the pool It was fun

Tomorrow we're going to meet Uncle

Bob He's going to take us out on his

boat He's picking us up at the hotel at

8 o'clock and then he's going to drive us

to the harbour That's where his boat

is In the morning he's going to teach

us how to sail Then we're going to have

lunch on his boat In the afternoon

we're going to sail to one of the small

islands of f Penang Mummy is going to

teach me how to snorkel Daddy is going

to take some photographs ⁄/'⁄@\

Bye for now

To:

Mrs Jean Allen

15 Rose Gardens

Singapore 123456

Love,

Sally

88 Verbs

Sally begins her message by talking about the

present time

(we're all having a lovely holiday here in Penang

Then she talks about the past

Yesterday we spent the day at the hotel Most of

the time we swam and played in the pool

After that she talks about the future

Tomorrow we're going to meet Uncle Bob He’s

going to take us out on his boat He’s picking us

up at the hotel at 8 o’clock and then he’s going

to drive us to the harbour That’s where his boat is

In the morning he’s going to teach us how fo sail Then we're going to have lunch on his boat

All actions take place in the past, in the present or in the future

(yesterday) (now, today) (tomorrow)

Talking about the future 89

When you talk about the future, there are several

different forms that you can use Here are some

examples

Our plane leaves at 3 o'clock present simple

The taxi is coming at 1 o'clock present continuous

Do you think they will give us

something to eat on the plane? will + verb

This time tomorrow we'll be

getting on the plane will + be + verb-ing

Hurry up! The plane is about

to leave be + about to + verb

I'm going to ask the stewardess

if I can go into the cockpit be + going to + verb

When Sally talks about the future, she usually uses

be + going to

(Tomorrow we’re going to meet Uncle Bob )

For Future actions which

(are already decided