The Past Continuous Tense.pptVIP

The Past Continuous Tense Look and Guess Look and Guess Look and Guess Look and Guess Look and Guess Look and Guess Work out the rule 过去进行时 表示过去某一时候或过去某一段时间 正在进行的动作。 Classroom work Interview your partner about what he/she and his/her family member were doing at different times yesterday, using the questions like What were you doing at 7:00 yesterday? Was your mother cooking at that time? Were you having lunch at 12:00? Was your mother doing the same thing then? * * Unit3 Grammar Welcome to Bellbright’s lesson What is Sandy doing? She is singing. What is Simon doing? He is playing soccer. She is answering a call. What is Kitty doing? Is Xi Wang sleeping? He is eating bamboo leaves. What are the group of people doing? They are watching birds. He is training a dog. What is the young man doing? What tense did we use when we talked about what is happening? Grammar Study The present continuous tense 现在进行时 be (am, is, are) V-ing Do you still remember what was happening in the pictures? Test your memory Sandy Simon Kitty a call. The young man The group of people was singing. was playing soccer. was answering was training his dog. were watching birds. Grammar Study The Past Continuous Tense 过去进行时 was/were V-ing Do you remember what tense we were using? Compounding Drills e.g. I—sing I was singing. He—walk We—follow Jay—sing People—listen The sun—shine Ben—swim It—rain Tom and Jerry—run 9. The tiger—hunt 10. The mice—hide 11. Qian Tao—act 12. Many of us—watch 13. Lao Yang—dance 14. The children—laugh 15. The twins—fight 16. The earth—shake I was not singing. Were you singing? when evening came this time yesterday at noon 8:30 am --9:00 am 7:00 am his/her family member Your partner (name) _________ Time