VIDEO LESSON: A Single Life. Past Simple vs Past Continuous.

Task description :10 multiple choice questions to practice the past simple vs the past continuous tense.

 Featured grammar points: 

1.  Use the past simple + past simple to talk about a sequence of events. 
2.  Use the past continuous + past simple combo to talk about an ongoing action that was interrupted by another event. 
3.  Use the past continuous + past continuous to describe two simultaneous events (=two events that were happening at the same time).

Narrative Tenses: Past Continuous

Watch a scene in which people are just like in their usual life, something suddenly happens... a car crash. and people start to talk about the situation.
    

Past Continuous – Statements – Exercise 1

Questions in the Past Continuous– Exercise 1

Negations in the Past Continuous – Exercise 1

• Exceptions in Spelling when Adding ing
• Was or Were
• Positive Sentences
• Negative Sentences
• Questions
• Questions with Interrogatives
• Mixed exercise on Past Progressive
• Positive & Negative Sentences

• Past Progressive: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3

Comparison with other Tenses

• Simple Past – Past Progressive
• Simple Past – Past Progressive
• Past Simple - Past Continuous - Past Perfect
• Past Simple - Past Continuous - Past Perfect online tests

Exercises - lower intermediate 1

  

1. Past continuous - exercises
2. Was / were - past progressive
3. Past progressive - statements
4. Past progressive - positive
5. Was / were + -ing
6. Past continuous - exercises
7. Past continuous - exercises
8. What were they doing ?
9. Past simple / past continuous
10. Affirmative and negative 2
11. Past progressive - flash game #