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And now let's review and practice a bit.

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Remember that we use the past continuous vocally describe a situation or several situations in progress

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happening at the same time.

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In the past.

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Now this is often contrasted with a sudden event in the path simple now read the following sentence

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and decide which sentence describes background situation in which sentence describes the sudden event

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while Emily was cooking dinner.

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The phone rang

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background situation sudden event the phone rang

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also remember we use the past form of to be and the i n g form of the mean for to make sentences in

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the past continuous.

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Now read the following sentence and provide the Past Continuous Tense of the verbs in the bracken Mike

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to paint the walls in the living room and to play with her toy stare Helen to get ready for a date and

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Nancy to take pictures of that busy evening

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Mike was painting the walls in the living room and was playing with her toys there Helen was getting

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ready for her date and Nancy was taking pictures of that busy evening

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remember that to four questions by inviting the subject and to be into form negatives with to be plus

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not use contracted forms.

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Now read the following sentences and provide the correct form of the Past Continuous Tense of the words

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in the bracket what you to do at 7 p.m. yesterday ie not to celebrate my friend's birthday Mike I wanted

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to I to help my boss at work instead

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what were you doing at 7 p.m. yesterday I wasn't celebrating my friend's birthday like I wanted to I

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was helping my boss at work instead

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and now find a time markers in the following sentences it was snowing heavily yesterday I was making

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snowmen with my kids the whole day

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yesterday the whole day and now read the following sentence and fill in the blank with either when or

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while Peter fell asleep he was watching TV

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Peter fell asleep when he was watching TV.