SIMPLE PAST X

PAST CONTINUOUS
8TH GRADE
2023

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THE STUDENTS WERE
STUDYING WHEN THE POWER
WENT OUT.

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It started
raining while I
was running.

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When I woke up this
morning, it was
snowing.

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 SIMPLE PAST AND PAST CONTINUOUS
• The past continuous and the
past simple help us to show how
two past actions or situations
are connected.

• When we use these two tenses

together, it shows us that the
past simple action happened in
the middle of the past
continuous action, while it was
in progress.

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SIMPLE PAST AND PAST CONTINUOUS

We often use these tenses to show an action interrupting another

action.

o I broke my leg when I was skiing.

o As I was going to work, I saw an old friend.
o We were watching television when the power went off.

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SIMPLE PAST OR PAST CONTINUOUS?

I was working when he called me.

PAST SIMPLE PAST

CONTINUOUS

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WHEN AND WHILE

• I WAS COOKING DINNER WHILE MY HUSBAND WAS

CLEANING THE HOUSE.

• SHE WAS STUDYING WHEN THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED.

WHEN WHILE
QUANDO ENQUANTO

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 • I _____________(READ) A BOOK
WHEN THE MAN _________ (ARRIVE).

YOUR TURN
• SHE _____________(READ) A BOOK
WHILE HER MOM ___________
(WATCH) TV.

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EXERCISE – Complete with the Simple Past or Past Continuous.

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