Para enseñanza básica

1. Past Continuous Tense.
Miss Carolina Retamal Henríquez.

2. Some questions to start…
What do you know about past continuous
tense?
Can you give an example?

3. What are the uses of past
continuous tense?
1.-To express actions that was IN
PROGRESS in the PAST.
Example:
It was raining

4. What are the uses of past
continuous tense?
2.-To express two or more actions that was
HAPPENING in the PAST.
Example:
He was reading the newspaper WHILE I was
walking home.

5. What are the uses of past
continuous tense?
3.-To express two actions that one of them
started BEFORE than the other in the .
Example:
When I arrived, you were talking on the
phone.

6. How can I form a past
continuous sentece?
Subject +was/were + verb-ing + complement
I was eating pizza

7. I WAS reading
You WERE eating
He WAS dancing
She WAS jumping
It WAS cooking
We WERE walking
They WERE singing

8. More examples…
I was watching TV while Sofia was cooking

9. More examples…
• I was listening to music

10. To sum up!!!!!
• Subject +was/were + verb-ing + complement.