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ORIENTACIONES
CONTENTS
• Simple Past
• Affirmative, negative and Interrogative
• Regular and Irregular Verbs
• Past Continuous
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REGULAR IRREGULAR
VERBS VERBS
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• AFIRMATIVA:
– She went to Europe
– We got up very early
• NEGATIVA:
– She didn’t go to Europe
– We didn’t get up very early
• INTERROGATIVA:
– Did She go to Europe?
– Did we get up very early?
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EXERCISES 1
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9.-The window was open and a bird ___________ into the room.
a.-fly
b.-flew
c.-was flew
d.-did fly
We use the past continuous to say that somebody was in the middle of
doing something at a certain time in the past.
Example:
"This time yesterday, I was doing my homework."
We use the past continuous to say that something happened in the
middle of something else:
Example:
"Bob burnt his hand when he was cooking dinner yesterday"
"While I was working in the garden, I hurt my back
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PAST CONTINUOUS
To form past continuous we use the simple past of the verb
to be following by the gerund:
Was / were + verbo con –ING
• AFIRMATIVA:
– He was painting the wall
– We were waking up very early
• NEGATIVA:
– He wasn’t painting the wall
– We weren’t waking up very early
• INTERROGATIVA:
– Was he painting the wall?
– Were we waking up very early?
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RULES
RULE 1:
• A consonant + -e ----------- Drop the –e and ADD –ing
• dance ----------- dancing
• ride ----------- riding
• take ----------- taking
RULE 2
• One vowel + One consonant ----------- Double the consonant and ADD – ing
• cut ----------- cutting
• plan ----------- planning
• run ----------- running
• NOTE: Do not double w,y,and x
• snow --------- snowing
• fix --------- fixing
• pay --------- paying
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RULES
RULE 3
• Two vowels + One Consonant ---------- ADD –ing ; do not double the consonant
• keep --------- keeping
• read --------- reading
• RULE 4:
• Two consonants -------- ADD –ing ; do not double the consonant
• sing--------- singing
• wash ------ washing
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EXERCISES
• Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the past continuous.
• 1. I …………(sleep) when you called me.
EXERCISES
Example
Exercise
was knitting
Grandfather ____________TV while grandmother____________.
Cindy _________ her homework while Nicky ____________to the Hi-fi.
activities
• http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-
paspro/exercises?ex07.
• http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-
paspro/exercises?ex08
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CONCLUSION
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