EXERCISE 15. Past time. (Charts 2-1 + 2-7)
Direcrions: Pair up with a classmate.
Speaker A: Tell Speaker B about your activities yesterday. Think of at least five things you
did yesterday to tell Speaker B about. Also think of two or three things you
didn't do yesterday.
Speaker B: Listen carellly to Speaker A. Make sure that Speaker A is using past tenses
correctly. Ask Speaker A questions about hidher activities if you wish. Take
notes while Student A is talking.: (^9) activities When Speaker yesterday. A finishes talking, switch roles: Speaker B tells Speaker A about hidher
Use the notes from the conversation to write a composition about the other student's
- , activities yesterday.
THE SIMPLB PAST4-
THB PAST PROGRESSIVE(a) Mary waked downtown
yesterday.
(b) I &fit for eight hours last
night.9,
(c) I sat down at the diier table
8t 6:00 P.M. yesterday. Tom
came to my house at 6:10 P.M.
I was eating dinner when Tom
cum.
(d) I went to bed at 10:OO. The
phone rnng at 11:OO.
I was sloepr'ng when the
phone mng.The s1MPI.B PAST is used to talk about an
activity or situation rhar began and ended at a
pardcular time in thepasr (e.g.,yestmiq,
last night, days ago, in 1999), as in (a)
and (b).The PAST PROGRESSIVB expresses an acriviry
that was in p*og*esr (was occurring, was
happem'nk, at a point of time in the past
(e.g., at 6:10) or at the time of another
action (e.g., when Tom came).
In (c): eating was in progress at 6:lO; eating
was in progress when Tom came.
FORM: wastwere + -ing.(e) When the phone rang, I was sleeping. whon = at that time(f) The phone rang while I was sleeping. while = during that time
(e) and (f) have the same meaning.1 2-9 FORMS OF THE PAST PROGRESSIVE
STATEMENTNEGATNEQUBSTI~SHORT
ANSWBRI-She-He-It wus working.
You-We-They were working.
I-She-He-It was not (wasn't) working.
You-We-They were not (weren't) working.
Wu I-she-he-it working?
Wwe you-we-they working?
Yes, I-she-he-it was. Yes, you-we-they were.
No, I-she-he-it wasn't. No, you-we-they weren't.