January 09New Headway pre-intermediate, Unit 3 1 PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS.

January 09 New Headway pre-intermediate, Unit 3

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PAST SIMPLEPAST SIMPLE

PAST CONTINUOUSPAST CONTINUOUS


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PAST SIMPLEPAST SIMPLE


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PAST SIMPLE

Form:

Questions: Negatives:


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PAST SIMPLE

Form:

Infinitive + ed



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PAST SIMPLE

Form:

Infinitive + ed


There are also many irregular verbs


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PAST SIMPLE

Form:

Infinitive + ed

Questions:

did + pronoun + infinitive

Negatives:



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PAST SIMPLE

Form:

Infinitive + ed

Questions:


Negatives:

did not (didn’t) + infinitive



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PAST SIMPLE

Form:

Infinitive + ed

Questions:


Negatives:


Short verbs :stop



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PAST SIMPLE

Form:

Infinitive + ed

Questions:


Negatives:


Short verbs :stop stopped

(1syllable + 1 consonant + 1vowel = 2 consonants)



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PAST SIMPLE

Form:

Infinitive + ed

Questions:


Negatives:


Short verbs :stop stopped


Consonant + y :study



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PAST SIMPLE

Form:

Infinitive + ed

Questions:


Negatives:


Short verbs :Stop Stopped


Consonant + y :study studied

(change -y to -ied)



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PAST CONTINUOUSPAST CONTINUOUS


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PAST CONTINUOUS

Form:



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PAST CONTINUOUS

Form:


was / were + verb + ing


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PAST CONTINUOUS

Form:



was / were (wasn’t / weren’t)+ verb+ ing


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PAST CONTINUOUS

Form:



was / were + pronoun + verb + ing was / were (wasn’t / weren’t)+ verb+ ing


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PAST CONTINUOUS

Form:




Continuous tense =

be + verb+ ing


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PAST CONTINUOUS

Form:




The Past Continuous is sometimes called

Past Progressive

Continuous tense =

be + verb+ ing


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PAST SIMPLE VS PAST CONTINUOUSPAST SIMPLE VS PAST CONTINUOUS

Past Simple• For something in the past

which is finished.

My father bought a new car last month

• To tell the events of a story.

He opened the door, switched on the light

• A habitual action (routine) in the past.

He often told me he was the best player

Past Continuous• For an action that we were in

the middle of.

He was waling in the street when I met him

• To insist on how long the action lasted.

He was studying literature for ten years

• We normally do not use Past Continuous with state verbs


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Past SimpleUse with:

yesterday

…ago

in 1995

the other day

last Friday

when

Past ContinuousUse with:

while

as long as

when


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When Mary arrived, we were having dinner

When Mary arrived, we had dinner

…after another action…at the same time

January 09New Headway pre-intermediate, Unit 3 1 PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS.

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