Lesson number 17

Tuesday, 13th November 2007

Summary:

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  Past Continuous.
  

Past Simple

Irregular verbs:

To beat-->beat-->derrotar

To win-->won-->ganhar/vencer

To lose-->lost-->perder

To draw-->drew-->empatar

PAST CONTINUOUS

e.g. I was having a bath.

-->Use: to talj about a situation that was in progress the past.

-->Form: To Be in the past simple + _ing form of the main verb

-->was ( I, she, he, it) e.g. To have/having

-->were (you, we,they

E.g.

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  Paulo was paying attention to her teacher. -->Affirmative




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  Some students weren't listening to the teacher. -->Negative




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  Was Liliana copying the lesson correctly? -->Interrogative

ATTENCION:

--> When and while often appear with this verb tense.

e.g. When I was having a bath--> past continuous; the light went off.-->past simple

While we were taking the breakfast, my father called us.