SIMPLE PAST TENSE vs

PAST PROGRESSIVE
(continuous)
Ms Silvia H. Tejada Dapuetto
SIMPLE PAST TENSE
• We use the Simple Past tense to talk about:
• - completed: (in the past)
• actions
• Habits
• Facts

Past tense Now Future

Completed action

• I went to the cinema yesterday .

• GO = went
• (irregular verb)
Habits in the past tense
• I always visited my grandparents in
holidays when I was a little girl

• Visit=visited
Facts in the past
• I lived in Tumbes three years ago
Past continuous tense (past progressive)
• The past continuous is used to express:
Interrupted actions
Parallel actions
Continuous actions in the past
 Interrupted actions
• We were watching TV when the phone rang
• (verb to be in the past tense)
• Verb ring = rang (past tense)
 Parallel actions in the past
• He was doing his homework while his mother was cooking dinner
 Continuous actions in the past
• Last night at 7pm Sheyla was teaching to her students from Ayacucho.