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PAST CONTINUOUS
ñ for actions which were happening at a specific time in
the past.
We were sleeping at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
ñ for two actions happening at the same time in the past.
Sam was working in the garden while I was cooking dinner.
ñ for an action happening when another action interrupted
it. He was reading a book when the doorbell rang.
PAST SIMPLE
ñ for completed actions in the past. He left last Monday.
ñ for actions which happened one after the other in the
past. He went down the cellar stairs, opened the door, and
walked inside.
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7 Use the words to ask and answer
questions in pairs.
1 you/study/9 o’clock yesterday evening?
A: Were you studying at 9 o’clock yesterday evening?
B: No, I wasn’t. I was watching TV.
2 you/walk in the park/last Sunday afternoon?
3 you/chat on the phone/an hour ago?
4 your friend/eat dinner/8 o’clock last night?
5 your parents/work/last Saturday morning?
Grammar
Past continuous (negative,
interrogative & short answers)
5 Read the table. How do we form the negative
and interrogative in the past continuous?
NEGATIVE
I wasn’t working.
You weren’t working.
He/She/It wasn’t working.
We/You/They weren’t working .
INTERROGATIVE SHORT ANSWERS
Was I working ?
Were you working?
Was he/she/it working?
Were we/you/they
working?
Yes, I was./No, I wasn’t.
Yes, you were./
No, you weren’t.
Yes, he/she/it was./
No, he/she/it wasn’t.
Yes, we/you/they were./
No, we/you/they weren’t.
6 Form questions and full answers based on
the text in Ex. 2, as in the example.
1 Larry and Sergey/study/Maths in 1995?
Were Larry and Sergey studying Maths in 1995?
No, they weren’t. They were studying Computer
Science.
2 Search engines/list results/according to popularity/
before Google?
3 Larry and Sergey/work/from their house in 1998?
4 People use Google/in 1998?
Past continuous vs
past simple
8 Read the theory. Find more examples in the
text in Ex. 2.
9 Put the verbs in brackets into the past
continuous or the past simple.
In 2004, 23-year-old Mark
Zuckerberg, 1) .........................
(launch) Facebook while he
2) .......................................... (study) at Harvard University.
People 3) ................................... (want) a university website
with students’ profiles, so Mark 4) ......................................
(decide) to do something about it. 1,200 students
5) .................................. (sign up) within 24 hours! He then
6) .................................... (expand) the site to include other
universities. Mark 7) ......................................... (face) some
difficulties, though. Three Harvard seniors 8) .......................
(insist) that while Zuckerberg 9) ..........................................
(work) on a similar project with them, he
10) .............................. (use) their ideas to create Facebook.
This 11) .................................. (not/stop) Mark, though, and
Facebook soon 12) ......................................... (become) the
biggest social networking site in the world with 500 million
users to date.
4 a) Tell the class a short summary of the text.
b) Imagine Google went down
for a week. How would this affect the
lives of those who use it every day? In
three minutes write a few sentences.
Tell the class.
Think!
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Speaking & Writing
10 Imagine you are Mark in Ex. 9.
Describe the events leading up to your creation
of Facebook. Tell your partner or the class.
Think!
Vocabulary Bank 2 p. VB4