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Past Continuous Explanation
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Hi everyone, we're going to look at the past continuous, okay?
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When we use the past continuous, we use it to say what we were doing at a particular moment in the past.
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So it's an action that was happening at a particular point or time in the past.
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Let's look at the structure of the past continuous first.
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Let's just get rid of this.
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Okay. To make the past continuous in positive sentences, we need a subject. It's a word like I, you, he, she, we, or they. Then we need the verb to be in the past, which means that we're only going to use was or were.
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if we use was or were depends on which subject we are using for example if I
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use the subject I then we need to use was the subject you then we need to use
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were she or he was they were etc after the verb to be in the past we need to
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use a verb and we always add the ing the words ing in the past continuous for example if i want
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to use the verb walk i need to add ing and it becomes walking walking if i use the verb eat
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Eat. It becomes eating. What would it be if I use the verb swim? It would become? That's right. Swimming.
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And then any other information that we have, we put it at the end. Here usually in the past continuous, it's a phrase, it's a sentence or information that tells us exactly when this action was happening.
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Let's look at the different subjects in positive sentences.
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I was watching television at 8 o'clock last night.
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Think for a minute.
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How do you...
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What does this mean in Spanish?
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I was watching television at 8 o'clock last night.
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Think in your head.
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Can you say it in Spanish?
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Well, in Spanish, you could say...
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say, yo estaba viendo la televisión a las ocho por la noche. Or, we could say, veía
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la televisión por la noche. You can use the two. Estaba viendo la televisión is a little
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similar to what we have in English. Yo estaba viendo la televisión a las ocho por la noche.
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Let's have a look with the subject you. You were playing in the garden at eight o'clock
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last night. Think how you would say that in Spanish. That's right. Estabas jugando en
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el jardín a las ocho por la noche. Or, we could say, jugaba en el jardín a las ocho
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por la noche. Good. Now, in the third person, as you remember, these are called first person
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singular, second person singular, and third person singular, because they refer to only
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one person okay here we have she or he she was eating a sandwich at eight o'clock last night
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or he was eating a sandwich at eight o'clock last night think how you would say that in spanish
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We were walking in the park at 8 o'clock last night.
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You were doing your homework at 8 o'clock last night.
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Remember, this is you plural.
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You plural, referring to more than one person.
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Here, it's you singular, only referring to one person.
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But the structure is identical.
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And finally, they were sleeping at home at 8 o'clock last night.
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In negative sentences, the structure is almost identical to positive sentences.
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We need a subject at the beginning.
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I, you, he, she, it, etc.
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We need the verb to be in the past.
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but this time we need the verb to be in the past in the negative so was the
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negative of was is wasn't or was not the negative in the past of were is weren't
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or were not remember when we when we are speaking English we tend to use
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contractions like this wasn't or weren't but when we are writing English we tend
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to use was not or were not just practice for a minute at saying wasn't weren't
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on repeat with me wasn't wasn't weren't weren't okay good we also need the verb
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plus the ing walk walking eat eating and any other information that comes in the
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sentence at the end okay look at some examples I wasn't watching television at
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eight o'clock last night. You weren't playing in the garden at eight o'clock last night.
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You practice it. Good. Let's look at the structure when we make questions with the past continuous.
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Now here we need to make a little change in the order of the subject and the verb to be.
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Remember in the positive we start always start with a subject but in a question we're going to
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change the order of the subject and the verb to be so we're going to have the
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verb to be first was or were plus the subject I you he she etc and then we
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have the verb plus ing walk walking eat eating and then we have the other
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information look at some examples was I watching television last night at 8
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o'clock. Were you playing in the garden at eight o'clock yesterday? Can you
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practice? You say it. Good. So let's practice together. Alright, here we have a
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question and a picture. Look at the picture. Let's look at the question. What
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was Bianca doing at 11 o'clock last Saturday morning? Can you answer the
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question with a past continuous answer that's right she was playing tennis at
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11 o'clock last Saturday morning notice here that instead of using Bianca I
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changed it to she okay she was playing tennis at 11 o'clock
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o'clock last Thursday morning. Look at the picture. What were Aaron and Alba doing at
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five o'clock yesterday afternoon? Answer the question with past continuous. That's right.
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They were reading a book. And the last one. Look at the picture. What were my classmates
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and I doing at 11 o'clock last Thursday morning we were listening to the teacher
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in the classroom did you get that right with the subject we we use we because
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here it's talking about classmates and I so it's referring to more than one
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person and it includes me so we use the subject we we were listening to the
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teacher in the classroom okay I hope that you understand the past continuous
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now and you could do some exercises if not I suggest you look at this video
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again to practice a little bit more it's a good idea
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- Autor/es:
- Brian
- Subido por:
- Brian D.
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- Fecha:
- 14 de abril de 2020 - 19:41
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- CP INF-PRI SAN SEBASTIAN
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- 11′ 58″
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