Period 53 , 54
Unit 6: People and Places (cont)
I. Grammar: The past continuous tense (cont)
3. Practice:
Task 1: Match a line in column A to a line in column B to make
a complete sentence
A B
1. Tom was having dinner
2. What were you doing
3. While I was working in the garden
4. Someone came to the house and
left this note
5. I saw the accident
6. He had a bad fall
7. I was looking for my passport
8. He was cleaning his gun
9. When I arrived at the meeting
10. When the postman came
A. when I called you?
B. when his friend called.
C. while we were fishing.
D. she was phoning
E. I hurt my back
F. when it accidentally went off
G. while I was driving to the office
H. the manager was making a
speech
I. while he was repairing his roof
J. when I saw an old photo
Task 2: Write sentences with the cues given, using the
continuous past tense
1. When / I / meet / him / he / wear / boots / . /
When I met him, he was wearing boots.
2. What / you / do / 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon / ? /
What were you doing at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon ?
3. I / write / my report / 8 o’clock / last night / . /
I was writing my report at 8 o’clock last night.
4. Mary / do / homework / 5.00 o’clock this afternoon / . /
Mary was doing her homework at 5.00 o’clock this afternoon .
5. While / she / clean / the house / her husband / sleep / . /
While she was cleaning the house , her husband was sleeping.
6. It / rain / when / we / go out / . /
It was raining when we went out.
Task 3: Here is another story of an embarrassing incident.
Complete the story. Put the verbs in the box in the past
continuous or the past simple tense. Use some verbs
more than once.
hide get into expect appear
go put down hear clean
help
look
ring
run
fall off
put on
Not get dressed
stand
Language focus: Adjectives in –ing and –ed
Example: embarrass (v)
~ embarrassing (adj)
~ embarrassed (adj)
► Adjectives in -ed:
I was terribly embarrassed by that incident.
I’m interested in the lesson.
=> Chúng ta s d ng tính t k t thúc b ng đuôi –ed đ miêu ử ụ ừ ế ằ ể
t c m giác c a con ng iả ả ủ ườ