Past Continuous Tense
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 433.
Ex. 1. Compare and analyze the usage of Present Simple Tense and Present Continuous Tense.
1. I usually watch TV in the evenings. I am watching TV now. 2. Are you looking for a key now? You always look very smart. 3. Why are you not wearing your new dress now? She usually wears fashionable clothes. 4. Today it is raining heavily outside. It rains heavily in autumn in this part of the country. 5. He walks very slowly as a rule but now he is walking fast. 6. I usually don't rest after university, but today I'm very tired and I am having a rest. 7. I think I will be on holiday next month. I am going on holiday next month. 8. We live in Washington, though we are staying in London at the moment. 9. I play tennis every week. Where are the children? – They are playing tennis on the court now. 10. The foreign scientists are flying back to Europe tomorrow. Some passenger planes fly faster than sound.
| The Past Continuous Tense is used: | Examples |
| For an action in progress at a definite moment in the past usually with time expressions at five o'clock yesterday ,all day yesterday, the whole evening, all day long, when he came, while | 1. What were you doing at one o'clock yesterday? – At one o'clock yesterday I was having lunch. 2. Were you waiting for a bus when I noticed you at the bus stop? – No, I wasn't. I was just passing by it. |
| For a temporary action in the past | 1. When Alex met Mary in Minsk last year, she was not having preparatory courses for University. 2. Was she already studying at BSU? Yes, she was studying at the faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. |
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| Present Continuous Tense | | | Ex. 3. Compare and analyze the usage of the Future Simple Tense and the Future Continuous Tense. |