Hollywood Mystery

Unit 4
 LANGUAGE
REVIEW
VOCABULARY: Police
investigations
GRAMMAR: Simple past & past
continuous
OUTCOME: Describing activities
in the past
GETTING STARTED: Match the words to the pictures.
MATCH EACH VERB WITH ITS MEANING.
 READ
READ the newspaper
article and answer the
questions.
The police questioned the
people at the Prices’ house the
night of the robbery.

Read the people statements .

-WHERE WAS EACH PERSON?
-WHAT WERE THEY DOING WHEN
THE NECKLACE WAS STOLEN?
!NOW, COMPLETE.
 PAST SIMPLE OR PAST CONTINUOUS
-We use the past simple to talk about events,
states or habits at definite times in the past.
-The past simple emphasises the event that
happened at a definite time in the past.
-The focus is not on events in progress but
rather on the whole events (finished work, went
home).
-The events were completed at that time.
At 4 pm last Monday, I finished work early and went home.
-We use the past continuous to talk about
events and temporary states that were in
progress around a certain time in the past.
-The past continuous emphasises the
action or event in progress around a time in
the past. The event (working) was in
progress at 4 pm.
-The event was not completed at that time.
At 4 pm last Tuesday, I was working in the
office
 GRAMMAR FOCUS
LOOK AT THE EXAMPLES AND UNDERLINE THE PAST CONTINUOUS VERBS
 PAST SIMPLE OR PAST CONTINUOUS

Emphasising main events with the past simple

When one event is more important than the other in the past, we can use the past simple to
emphasise the main event. We can use the past continuous for the background event (the less
important one)
USE PAST SIMPLE OR PAST CONTINUOUS