Past continuous. Grammar

Слайд 2

Images: Ambro/FreeDigitalPhotos.net photostock/FreeDigitalPhotos.net This woman is a great gossip. She enjoys

Images:
Ambro/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
photostock/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

This woman is a great gossip. She enjoys

talking about other people.

She also likes watching what people in the building opposite hers do using her binoculars.

But there’s more!

Слайд 3

Yesterday at 9.15 a.m. she was spying on her neighbours. What were they doing?

Yesterday at 9.15 a.m. she was spying on her neighbours.
What

were they doing?
Слайд 4

Images: David Castillo Dominici/FreeDigitalPhotos.net Ambro/FreeDigitalPhotos.net Phaitoon/FreeDigitalPhotos.net photostock / FreeDigitalPhotos.net They were

Images:
David Castillo Dominici/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Ambro/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Phaitoon/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
photostock / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

They were

reading.

They were having a coffee.

She was talking on the phone.

He was eating.

They were watching TV.

Слайд 5

What about you? What were you doing yesterday at 9.15 a.m.? I was….

What about you?
What were you doing yesterday at 9.15 a.m.?


I was….
Слайд 6

Past continuous form Affirmative

Past continuous form Affirmative

Слайд 7

Past continuous form Negative Interrogative

Past continuous form

Negative

Interrogative

Слайд 8

Uses of the past continuous To describe a past action in

Uses of the past continuous

To describe a past action in progress

at a certain time.

What were you doing yesterday at 8 o’clock?
I was watching the news on TV

Слайд 9

The police officer broke her leg when she was running. She

The police officer broke her leg when she was running.

She

was running

She broke her leg

I was having a shower

The phone rang

I was having a shower when the phone rang.