Ticket in Week 5

1. Grammar structure and uses

A. Use the information in the video to complete the rules:
1. To form the past continuous, we use was or were and the verb + ing
2. We usually use while with the past continuous
3. We can use when with both the past simple and the continuous
B. Use the information in the video to complete the chart.

Examples: (Write two examples, one from the

We use the Past Continuous to
video and one of your own)
Last Friday we were swimming in the sea
A. The describe an action in progress in the
On our last vacations we were playing video

past. The past period has finished

games.
I was writing a postcard to my friend
I was playing cars in video games, but I didnt
B. Talk about an unfinished action in the past

finish the game

C. To describe a situation or the background
The sun was shining through de window.
The ray fell to the side of the tree
of a story
We use the past simple and past Examples: (Write two examples, one from the
continuous to video and one of your own)
A. To describe a sequence of actions in a
We were snorkeling when we saw a crocodile.

story.
While I was travelling to Australia I met some

British tourist
B. For single and repeated action in the past.
While I was watching a store I understood the

promotion
2. Write your questions about the topic and be ready to ask them to your teacher in class.
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3. Lets put your knowledge about past continuous into practice!
Choose one of the photos on pages 34 and 35 in your students book. Imagine it is your photo
and you are in it. Write a story about what was happening. Say where you were, what you were
doing, why you were there, who you were with and other details about the situation in the photo.
Use some words from the box below. Your story should have minimum 70 words and maximum
100 words. Use past continuous and past simple.

Diving fishing jet-skiing kayaking rafting rowing sailing

snorkeling
Swimming water-skiing windsurfing surfing lake
marina ocean
 Pool reservoir river sea stream waterfall rapids
raft
In vacations my friends and my went to the ocean for search any feat. So while the
girls wear the swimsuit in the cabin, the boys diving. After that, some of us were
convinced a friend to teach us how to surf, to the scared but then accepted and we
surf boards and went to dive into a few waves. When he fell in the afternoon, we sat at
the shore of the ocean to contemplate the landscape.