July 10 Assignment

July 10 Assignment
1. Please study the past and past continuous tense and be able to use sentences in your writing assignment.
2. Study vocabulary from READ AHEAD, pages 4 -17 3.
Write two paragraphs about someone you think is a hero. This can be a person in your own life, or a person you admire from history or present day. Use when, while, during, after and before to form sentences.
Homework for Monday, July 10 Read pages 19-27 Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes and study vocabulary list.
Go on line and use one of the major search engines to search for information about Cambodia. Answer questions on page 26, #1 a, b, c d
On July 10 we will begin the past perfect, perfect progressive and the past tenses.

Study these verb forms in Englishpage.com USING THE PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

Use the past continuous to show that something was in progress at a specific moment in the past.
I was living in Russia in 2001.

Use the past continuous tense with the simple past to show that the longer past action is related to a shorter past action.
I was living in the USSR when the government changed.
In this case, use when + simple past when the action is shorter. Use while + the past continuous with the longer action.
Don’t use the continuous form with the verb to be.
Use a comma only after the time clause when the time clause comes first in the sentence.

Using the past continuous tense
1. She _____ ___________ (take) a shower ______________ when or while the telephone rang.
2. It _______________(start)to rain _____________ ( when or while) I was walking to school.
3. He ______ _________________ (shovel) snow _____________________(when or while) when he ______________(lose) his glove.
4. I _____________ (break) my tooth ____________________ (when or while) I _______ ________(eat) a nut.
5. I ________________ (meet) an old friend ______________(when or while) I _________ _________________ (walk) in the park.

Were and were going to Use was going to or were going to + the base form to describe a plan that we didn’t carry out
( I was planning to return to Russia, but I didn’t) I was going to return to Russia, but the government didn’t give me a visa.
I was going to go to Russia, but my daughter got sick

Write three sentences with were and were going to.
1.
2.
3.

Simple past vs Past continuous with when. You can use the simple past and the past continuous with a when clause.
But pay attention to logic about the time.
Did the simple past statement happen after an action? Which sentence is correct?
a. When I left Russia, I moved to Seattle.
b. While I was leaving Russia, I moved to Seattle

a. I was riding in a bus while the accident happened.
b. I was riding in a bus when the accident happened.

a. Princeton University was putting Einstein’s brain in a jar when he died.
b. Princeton University put Einstein’s brain in a jar when he died.

Write two sentences that show the action happened after an event.

Write two sentences that show the action happened at the same time.

Simple past vs. past continuous
You can use while and the simple past tense in both clauses when the two past actions happened in the same time period.
I moved to Russia while my wife stayed in Seattle.
While I lived in Russia, my wife studied in Seattle.

Write two sentences using this model. 1. 2.

When two past actions happened at the same time exactly , you can use while and the past continuous tense in both clauses.
While I was living in Russia, my daughter was writing to me everyday.
While I was reading the newspaper, I was underlining the verbs.


If one action happened at a specific time, use the simple past tense and when.
When the accident happened, I had to stop working.

Using the –ing form after time words.
When the main clause and the time clause have the same subject, we can delete the subject of the time clause and use a present particple (verb + ing) after the time word.