The document discusses the past continuous and past simple tenses in English. It provides examples of how to form the past continuous tense using the verbs "be" and the "-ing" form of other verbs. It also gives examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences in the past continuous. Additionally, it covers the uses of the past continuous for interrupted or ongoing actions versus the past simple for completed or habitual past actions.

1. Daniel Baquedano Rodríguez

2. Past Continuous USES
Interrupted actions, specific
time as an interruption and
parallel actions.
Usually use While +
Past Continuous for a
long action.

3. Past Continuous FORM
I
HE/SHE
IT
WE
YOU
THEY
WAS + ING
WERE + ING
I was playing football
He was watching TV
She was driving a car
It was walking in the street
We were reading a book
You were cooking a cake
They were writing a postcard

4. WE USE THE PAST CONTINUOUS TO TALK ABOUT A SPECIFIC
SITUATION IN THE PAST AND IMAGES...
AFFIRMATIVE---------Subject+Was/Were+ing+Complement
•It was climbing in the mountain.
NEGATIVE-------------Subject+Wasn’t/Weren’t+ing+Complement
•I wasn’t reading my book in the park.
INTERROGATIVE-----Was/Were+Subject+ing+Complement?
•Was your mother driving her new car to the school?
Past Continuous USES

5. Past Simple USES
Completed actions, habits and
facts in the past.
The actions begin
and end in the
Past.
Past expressions:
Last week, last year...

6. Past Simple FORM
REGULAR VERBS
+ I played
- We didn’t play
? Did you play?
IRREGULAR VERBS
DIFFERENT FORM
Send-Sent
Speak-Spoke
+ I sent an email.
- We didn’t send an email.
? Did you send an email?
VERB TO BE
+ I/he/she/it WAS
+ You/we/they WERE
- I/he /she/it WASN’T
- You/we/they WEREN’T
? WAS I/he/she/it?
? WERE you/we/they?