Unit 8.

A Question of Sports

1. GRAMMAR
1.1. PAST CONTINUOUS
USE We use the past continuous to talk about actions in
progress at a moment in the past
POSSITIVE was/were+verb+ing I/he/she/it WAS eating
We/you/they WERE eating
NEGATIVE wasn’t/weren’t I/he/she/it wasn’t eating
+verb+ing We/you/they weren’t eating
QUESTION Was/were+pronoun+ Was (I/he/she/it) eating?
verb+ing? Were (We/you/they) eating?

SHORT ANSWER Yes I/he/she/it WAS eating

Yes we/you/they WERE eating
No I/he/she/it WASN’T eating
No we/you/they WEREN’T eating
WATCH OUT!  When we add the -ing we need to remember
some rules:
1. If a verb ends in “e”, we remove the “e”.
Ex: take>taking, write>writing
2. If a short verb ends in
consonant+vowel+consonant, we double the
last consonant. Ex.: plan>planning,
put>putting

1.2. PAST SIMPLE VS. PAST CONTINUOUS

PAST CONTINUOUS PAST SIMPLE
Use For background actions For actions that happened at one
particular time in the past
Time While When
adverb
Example While I was taking a When my mother came, I was
shower my mother came taking a shower

2. VOCABULARY
 basketball  bars  golf
 horse racing  net  rock climbing
 gymnastics  match  rugby
 athletics  rider  snowboarding
 swimming  cheer  skiing
 tennis  fly  voleyball
 ball  lie  windsurfing
 race  run  running
 track  sailing  skateboarding
 water  diving
Adverbs of sequence: at first, then, after, finally