译林牛津版8A Unit 8 Natural disasters Grammar 教学课件 (共17张PPT).ppt
译林牛津版8A Unit 8 Natural disasters Grammar 教学课件 (共17张PPT).pptThe simple past continuous tense * 8上 Unit 8 Grammar THE SIMPLE PAST The simple past is used to describe actions and events that are now completed and no longer true in the present. We use the simple past to indicate exactly when an action or event took place in the past * Put the verbs into the correct form. Last year I ______(spend) my holiday in ______(be) _________ (travel) around by car with 2 friends and we ________ (visit) lots of interesting the evenings we usually _______ (go) to a night we even _________(learn) some Irish ______ (be) very lucky with the ____________(not/rain) a we ______ (see) some beautiful rainbow. * spent was travelled visited went learnt were didn’t rain saw PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE The Past Continuous describes an action that was already happening at a time in the past and was not finished at the time. It means that the action was in progress at a certain time in the past. Example: At 5 o´clock Mark was playing football with his friends. It is often used with time expressions as while and as. * It is the past form of simple continuous tense He is listening to music now. He was listening to music at this time yesterday. * * I was studying You We They were He She It was Past continuous tense I Was not Wasn’t studying You We They were not weren’t He She It was not wasn’t Negative Affirmative * Past continuous tense Was I studying? Were you we they Was he she it Interrogative NOTE: Verbs of thinking and feeling usually do not use the Past Continuous but the Past Simple..: think, know, see, hear, like We were good knew each other well. (not “were knowing”) I was enjoying the party but Chris wanted to go home. (not “was wanting”) * Use the past continuous together with the simple past: I was watching TV. when the phone rang. Wha
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