My English Corner for 3rd ESO - CDP: January 2018

Thursday, 25 January 2018

Prepositions of Movement

The most common preposition of movement is to, but there are lots of others.

Be careful with verbs like fall. My students often say "I fell down", but really they mean "I fell over" - look at the movement and you'll see why.

Also, be careful of the difference between across (preposition) and cross (verb), and past (preposition) and pass (verb).

I walked across the road.

I crossed the road.

I walked past your house.

I passed your house.

Revise the past simple tense while playing!

Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Past continuous

	Lady Past Continuous
Uses		Examples
Actions in the past that take place at a particular time. Acciones en el pasado que ocurren en un momento determinado que normalmente especificamos.		What were you doing last evening at 8:45? I was watching "el informal".
With the Past Continuous to refer to a long action that is interrupted by a shorter one ("When"or "While" are the habitual conjunctions). Con el Past Continuous para referirnos a una acción larga que se ve interrumpida por otra más corta.		We were talking about our last holidays when the boss came into the office and got angry.
Two actions developing at the same time in the past ("While" is the habitual conjunction). Dos acciones que se desarrollan a la vez en el pasado.		While my boss was talking to me, I was dreaming of my last holidays in Cancún.

I was dancing
You were dancing

He was dancing
She was dancing
It was dancing

We were dancing
You were dancing
They were dancing

I wasn't dancing
You weren't dancing

He wasn't dancing
She wasn't dancing
It wasn't dancing

We weren't dancing
You weren't dancing
They weren't dancing

Was I dancing?
Were you dancing?

Was he dancing?
Was she dancing?
Was it dancing?

Were we dancing?
Were you dancing?
Were they dancing?

Hello dears! My name is Lady Past Continuous.

I'm also very nostalgic like my friend the Past Simple Boy . We were together in many occassions when we were young. While Iwas studying to be a secretary he was studying to be a teacher and we lived on the same street in Granada.

When I was going out with his best friend Javi, the Past Simple Boy was going out with my best friend Margarita. This is an old story but I like thinking about the past.

I met the Past Simple Boy again two years ago in our English Club in Mijas called The Happy Verby Gang. We were talking for hours about the past times.

These days, I usually go out with another guy, the Present Perfect Man, we work in the same company and he is also a member of the club. He surprised me last evening; we were having dinner when he invited me to go on holidays together.

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