2. PAST SIMPLE vs. PAST CONTINUOUS

3. Past Simple Form+I/He/She/ItWe/You/They work. ?DidI/He/She/ItWe/You/Theywork? -I/He/She/ItWe/You/They work. work. ed didn’t

4. Do You Know These Past Forms? become came choosechose fly find fight feel fall eat drive flew found fought felt fell ate drove became dream draw do cut cost dreamt drew did cut cost come breakbroke brought beginbegan bewas bring buildbuilt buybought catchcaughtdrinkdrankforgetforgot

5. Do You Know These Past Forms? give led knowknew ride read put pay meet mean make rode read put paid met meant made gave lie let lend leave learn lay let lent left learnt lead havehad heard gowent getgot hear hit holdheld keepkeptloselostrunran

6. Do You Know These Past Forms? see spoke sleepslept wear wake understand throw think tell teach wore woke understood threw thought told taught saw swim steal stand spend spell swam stole stood spent spelt speak sendsent showed sellsold saysaid show shut singsang sitsattaketookwinwon

7. (1) We use Past Simple to talk about past historic events and facts

8. (2) We use Past Simple to talk about: completed actions in the past She woke up at 7:30 this morning. What did you do: -At home this morning? -At your last birthday party? -On your last vacation?

9. Complete the sentences about yourself:

11. Past Simple time words We normally use such time references as: Yesterday Last weekend A week ago Last Tuesday When I was … Last month The other day In 1998 On march the 3 d

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

13. Past Continuous Form+I/He/She/ItWe/You/They work. ?I/He/She/ItWe/You/They work ? -I/He/She/ItWe/You/They work. ing was were Was wasn’t Were weren’t

14. 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. I started doing I finished doing I was doing

15. We often use such time references as: At 5 o’clock yesterday / from 07.00 till 08.00 etc.

16. Tim was talking on the phone at 13.30 yesterday.

17. What were they doing at 11.50 yesterday?

18. What was she doing at 11.50 yesterday?

19. What were they doing: from ten till eleven?

20. (2) We use Past Continuous for: General description of a background situation. The sun was shining but a cold wind was blowing. A lot of people were hurrying to catch a bus. Describe what was happening when you left home this morning.

21. (3)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

22. 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.

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

24. What were Mike and Louise doing yesterday?

25. What were the students doing when the teacher arrived at school?

29. 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.

30. Only one minute… Ready, go ….

31. One minute…

32. 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 under the bank manager’s desk?