Mark Midensky - Intermediate Class - Month One

Mark's Intermediate Class - Session 3 Welcome to our class blog-site for Session 3. This is important information that you should not share with people outside this class. We will be using this blog site to post and correct journals. There will be three journals, three presentations based on the journal worth a total of 225 marks and these marks will be used to calculated your mark for class participation. Your journals will be corrected online by your instructor. Mark.

Saturday, September 30, 2006

THE SIMPLE PAST VS THE PAST CONTINUOUS

1. Use the past continuous for an action that was in progress at a specific time in the past.


  • Fabiana started her homework at 8:00. She stopped at 10:00 to go out with friends. At 9:00 she was doing her homework.

2. Use the past continuous and the simple past together when one action interrupts another.

  • Fabiana was doing her homework when her friends called and asked her out for a drink.

3. Use the past continuous for the action that started first and the simple past for the interupting action in two way.

  • I was living in San Francisco when a big earthquake happened.
  • A big earthquake happened while I was living in San Francisco.

4. When two past actions are in progress at the same time in the past.

  • I was living in San Francisco while my boyfriend was living in Seattle.

posted by Mark Midensky @ 4:22 PM 

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