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Lö­sun­gen zum Ar­beits­blatt: The past pro­gres­si­ve tense

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Gram­mar: The past pro­gessi­ve tense

1. Ex­am­ples: Read the sen­ten­ces:

1)    El­lie­was­drea­m­ing about South Ame­ri­ca when sud­den­ly Carl­ca­me in.

2)    What was­Carl­do­ingw­hen the bal­loon­ca­me in?

3)    At 9 pm, El­lie­was­rea­ding her scrap­book.

 

2. Ana­ly­sis: In each clau­se, cir­cle the sub­ject in blue, the verb in red, the au­xi­l­i­a­ry in oran­ge, and the time phra­se in yel­low.

Name the tense that is used in the main clau­ses and write the name of the tense into the gap in the head­line.

 

3. Rules:

3.1) How do we form the past pro­gres­si­ve tense? 

Fill in the gaps and com­ple­te the rule:

Sub­ject + was / were + ing-form (pre­sent par­ti­ciple)

3.2) When do we use the past pro­gres­si­ve tense? 

Fill in the gaps and com­ple­te the rule:

We use the past pro­gres­si­ve tense to say that so­me­thing (usual­ly an ac­tion) was going on at a cer­tain point of time in the past.

Ger­man: ... war ge­ra­de dabei, etwas zu tun ...

Si­gnal words: all si­gnal words for the sim­ple past tense +a point of time in the past (often ano­ther­ver­bin the sim­ple past); they are often lin­ked with "while" or "when".

3.3) Con­trast to the sim­ple past tense:

sim­ple

pro­gessi­ve

When the bal­loon­ca­me in, Carl­screa­med.

When the bal­loon came in, Carl was­rea­ding a book.

Ger­man: Als der Bal­lon her­ein (ge­flo­gen) kam, schrie Carl.

Ger­man: Als der Bal­lon her­ein (ge­flo­gen) kam, las Carl (ge­ra­de) ein Buch.

We use the past pro­gres­si­ve tense with verbs for ac­tions (to wait, to work, to read ...) but not with verbs for sta­tes (to like, to hate, to love, to want, to un­der­stand, to agree, to know, to re­mem­ber) .

 

4. Ex­er­ci­ses:

a) What were Ellie and the hams­ter doing, when Carl came in? Write sen­ten­ces.

1) Ellie – steer the wheel.

2) The hams­ter – watch Ellie.

b) Sim­ple past or past pro­gres­si­ve? Fill in the gaps.

1) Ellie was tid­y­ing up the room when the te­le­pho­ne rang.

2) Carl opened the door while Ellie was watching TV.

c) Trans­la­te the sen­ten­ces into Eng­lish:

1) Carl was rea­ding the news­pa­per when Ellie sud­den­ly loo­ked through the win­dow.

2) Yes­ter­day at two o´clock I was lis­ten­ing to music.

 

5. Ex­plain your an­s­wers to your neigh­bour.

 

 

The past pro­gres­si­ve tense (AB aus­ge­füllt für Leh­rer): Her­un­ter­la­den [doc][32 KB]

 

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