S ENGLISH ORAL

P PRESENTATION
SIMPLE PAST
P VS
PAST CONTINUOUS
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Presented by
o Lia Clement 8-1011-790
o Andrés Cubilla 8-998-725

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Abel Dominguez 8-1001-1409
Ever Ferrer 3-749-924
 What is Simple Past? S
P The simple past is used to talk about an
action that ended in a time before the
P current one. The duration is not relevant.
The time in which the action takes place
can be the recent past or the distant past.
C The term ago is useful to express temporal
distance in the past. It is placed after the
time period in question: a week ago, three
years ago, a minute ago.
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Examples of Simple Past
• I went to the store
P
P It means, that I go to the store, but in a past tense.

• You played video games last night

C It means, you played video games referring to the past

tense, last night.

• They made a cake for us

D Refers to the action of having made a cake in the past

tense, last night.
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What is Past Continuous?
P
You use Past Continuous while describing any past
event or condition which was continuing at some
point in time in the past. The past continuous tense is
P
formed by combining the past tense of to be (i.e.,
C was/were) with the verb's present participle (-ing
word). There are many situations in which this verb
tense might be used in a sentence. For example, it is
often used to describe conditions that existed in the
D past.
 Examples of Past Continuous S
• He was listening to music while walking in the garden.
P
It means that he was listening to music and walking at the same time.

• The sun was shining every day that summer. P

Which means that the sun was shining everyday that summer.

• While she was cooking food, the microwave blew up. C

It means that she was cooking food, but and got distracted while putting a plate
in the microwave, forgot to take the paper foil off and the microwave exploted.
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 Main differences between both S
Simple Past Past Continuous

The simple past is used to talk about The past continuous is used to describe
P
finished actions in the past. an action in progress at a specific
moment in the past.
P
Narrative use: To describe events of a Narrative use: To set the scene at the
story in chronological order. beginning of a story.
C
Example: She opened the door, Looked at Example: It was getting dark, and I was
us and went to her room walking to the room when...