TIME EXPRESSIONS

A certain time specified:

- This time last year

- At+ time ( at 10 o'clock, at 3 o'clock last night, yesterday at 2 am)

- Last week on Sunday

- Three years ago in May

- while + past continuous (Matt phoned while we were having dinner)

PAST CONTINUOUS

 Now complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the past continuous tense.

Affirmative

1. They _______________to school at 7.30 this morning. (go)

2. Last Saturday, Paul ___________________ football in the park when he saw Jane. (play)

3. The phone rang while I _____________ a cake. (make)

Negative

4. He _____________________ (not eat)

5. They __________________ their homework yesterday at 3 o'clock. (not do)

Questions

6. What _______ you ________ (watch) on television when you arrived?

7. _______ it _________ (rain) when you left? 

8. Yes,  it __________

NOW WATCH THE VIDEO AND TRY TO COMPLETE THE EXERCISES ABOUT THE PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

 SPELLING RULES FOR THE -ING FORM 

- With most verbs, we add -ing to the infinitive.

   see - seeing          watch - watching        buy - buying

- For verbs ending in -e, we remove the -e and add -ing.

  have - having        write - writing         save - saving

- For one-syllable verbs ending in a consonant+vowel+consonant, we double the consonant and add - ing.

  get - getting        run - running        shop - shopping

 

STRUCTURE

 PAST CONTINUOUS

• We use the past continuous to talk about actions or events that happened at a specific time in the past. 

example: I was reading a book yesterday at 3 o'clock.

               You were reading a book yesterday at 3 o'clock.