1.Answer the questions:
Who were some of your favorite sports stars in the past?
What did they play?
Why were they your favorite?
Name some of your country’s famous sports stars of the past.
Why were they famous?
What was your best memory from when you were a child?
What is your earliest memory?
Did you study hard at school?
What kinds of food did you eat when you were a child? Do you eat the same things now?
What was your country like when you were a child?
Do you think the past was better than the present? Why or why not?
What were some of the benefits of living in the past?
2. Talk about your country’s past (100 years ago), how was the past different from the present.
THE PAST CONTINUOUS
FORMATION
| Affirmative | Negative | Interrogative | |||||
| I He She It We You They | was working were working | I He She It We You They | was not (wasn’t) were not (weren’t) | working | Was Were | I he she it we you they | working? |
The Past Continuous is formed with the help of the auxiliary was/were and the Present Participle of the main verb.
USAGE
The Past Indefinite is used to denote:
1) an action in progress at a definite moment or a definite period of time in the past: They were playing football at 5.30 yesterday.
2) past action in progress interrupted by another past action. The longer action is in the Past Continuous, the shorter is in the Past Indefinite: Mark was having dinner when somebody knocked at the door.
3) two or more simultaneous past actions: While I was swimming, Jane was sunbathing.
4) background description to events in a story: She was flying to Rome. The sun was shining.
The following time expressions can be used with the Past Continuous: while, still, when, as, etc.
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