✅ PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS ✅ SONG✅ FOR KIDS ✅ Aprende con Victor ✅

✅ PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS ✅ SONG✅ FOR KIDS ✅ Aprende con Victor ✅ The past continuous tense, also known as the past progressive tense, refers to a continuing action or state that was happening at some point in the past. ... It can also be used to describe something that was happening continuously in the past when another action interrupted it. Here’s the positive form: The past continuous is made from the past tense of the verb be and the –ing form of a verb: I was You were He was She was It was We were You were They were working playing living talking etc. We use the past continuous to talk about the past: for something which happened before and after another action: The children were doing their homework when I got home. Compare: The children did their homework when (= after) I got home. This use of the past continuous is very common at the beginning of a story: The other day I was waiting for a bus when … Last week, as I was driving to work, … for something that happened before and after a specific time: It was eight o’clock. I was writing a letter. Compare: At eight o’clock I wrote (= started writing) some letters. to show that something continued for some time: My head was aching. Everyone was shouting. for something that happened again and again: I was practising every day, three times a day. They were meeting secretly after school. They were always quarrelling. with verbs which show change or growth: The children were growing up quickly. Her English was improving. My hair was going grey. The town was changing quickly. I was sleeping you were working he was coming she was reading ’War and Peace’ it was raining we were shopping they were watching a film Next, here’s the negative - it’s very easy, just add ’not’: I was not (wasn’t) sleeping you were not (weren’t) working he was not (wasn’t) coming she was not (wasn’t) reading ’War and Peace’ it was not (wasn’t) raining we were not (weren’t) shopping they were not (weren’t) watching a film Here’s an exercise about the positive and negative verb forms And, just like the past simple with ’be’, to make a ’yes / no’ question, put ’was / were’ in front of the subject: Was I listening? Were you working? Was she working? Was he living in Paris at the time? Was it snowing when you arrived? Were we eating? Were they studying? To make a ’wh’ question (of course) put the question word at the beginning: Why was I working? Where were you living? How was she travelling? Where was he going? Why was it snowing in the summer? What were we eating? Why were they studying? The past simple is the most common way of talking about past events or states which have finished. It is often used with past time references (e.g. yesterday, two years ago). Please explain past events or states! A past event could be one thing that happened in the past, or a repeated thing. I stopped at a zebra crossing. We carried on with the test. We played tennis every day in August. A state is a situation without an action happening. We stayed at my grandparents’ house last summer. How do you form the past simple? Regular past simple forms are formed by adding -ed to the infinitive of the verb. start → started kill → killed jump → jumped That seems easy! Yes, but there are some spelling rules. If a verb ends in -e, you add -d. agree → agreed like → liked escape → escaped If a verb ends in a vowel and a consonant, the consonant is usually doubled before -ed. stop → stopped plan → planned If a verb ends in consonant and -y, you take off the y and add -ied. try → tried carry → carried But if the word ends in a vowel and -y, you add -ed. play → played enjoy → enjoyed Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past English grammar Aprende con Victor Past continuous and simple past