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Past continuous and past simple *11010.4 Listen and match a-h and 1-8.

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We often use the past continuous with the past
simple, especially when we tell stories.

We use the past simple to talk about a completed
past event.

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Thephonerang. 3

To talk about two events that happened at the
same time we use the past continuous and the
past simple.

12 Work in pairs. Look at pictures 1-8 in
exercise 11.Cover pictures a-h. How
many sentences can you remember?
Thephonerang. We were watching afilm.

We can link these sentences with when. Tine phone rany when We
Were eating dinner.
When Past simple Past continuous

we were watching ItWas raining when ...
When the phone rang
a film. _

*13 Circle the correct answers.
Past simple when Past continuous
ÿ When Kjooked)/ waslookinq out of the
we were
The phone rang when window it snowed /C\was snowin<
watching a film.
1 We worked / were working in the garden when

Past continuous when Past simple we found / were finding some old money.
2 When Imade /was making the cake I
We were watching
when the phone rang. dropped / was dropping the bowl.
a film
3 Icleaned / was cleaning the kitchen when she
We can use two verbs inthe past continuous with
arrived / was arriving.
and to talk about two past actions in progress at
4 When Istarted / was starting school we
the same time.
lived/ were living in the old house.
I was doing myhomeworkandmygrandma was
makingsoup. 5 Isaw/ was seeing you when I
waited / was waiting for the bus.

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