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Actividad 1: Past continuous

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Teoría

Durante esta unidad estamos practicando en como usar el past continuous, en primer lugar repasamos la gramática (fuente original en esta web):

subject	+	auxiliary verb BE	+	main verb
		conjugated in simple past tense		present participle
		was were		base + ing

For negative sentences in the past continuous tense, we insert not between the auxiliary verb and main verb. For question sentences, we exchange the subject and auxiliary verb. Look at these example sentences with the past continuous tense:

	subject	auxiliary verb		main verb
+	I	was		watching	TV.
+	You	were		working	hard.
-	He, she, it	was	not	helping	Mary.
-	We	were	not	joking.
?	Were	you		being	silly?
?	Were	they		playing	football?

We often use the past continuous tense with the simple past tense. We use the past continuous tense to express a long action. And we use the simple past tense to express a short action that happens in the middle of the long action. We can join the two ideas with when or while.

In the following example, we have two actions:
long action (watching TV), expressed with past continuous tense
short action (telephoned), expressed with simple past tense


There are four basic combinations:

	I was walking past the car	when	it exploded.
When	the car exploded		I was walking past it.
	The car exploded	while	I was walking past it.
While	I was walking past the car		it exploded.

Ejercicios

Practica el past continuous con las siguientes actividades, todas corresponden a actividades autocorrectoras, por lo que puedes ver en el momento si están bien o están mal:

Actividad 1

Actividad 2

Otra actividad más, extraída de la completísima página de Isabel Perez.

Y para acabar, ya que somos expertos en past continous, juguemos un poco, acierta preguntas y encesta canastas. 

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