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Unit 8
Natural disasters
Grammar
To learn to use the past continuous
tense to talk about things that were
happening for some time in the past
To learn to use past continuous tense
with ‘while’ , ‘when’ and ‘as’
Objectives
过去进行时
A. Past continuous tense
Tom
play
football.
is
ing
Lucy
is
read
a book.
ing
What is Tom doing?
What is Lucy doing?
现在进行时:am/is/are + doing
Tom
play
football.
was
ing
Lucy
was
read
a book.
ing
What was Tom doing at that moment?
What was Lucy doing at 2:30 p.m. yesterday?
过去进行时:was/were + doing
在过去__________正在进行的动作
They were eating breakfast at 7:00 yesterday.
某一时刻
2. 在过去__________一直在进行的动作
From 1983 to 1998, he was teaching at Yale.
某段时间
6
at this time last night.
She was playing computer games
They were playing basketball when I walked past the playground.
from 8 to 9 yesterday morning.
He was reading newspaper
Was she talking at that time?
No, she was not talking at that time.
No, they were not learning English.
Were they learning English at 7 this morning?
过去进行时的基本用法 P123
表示过去某一时刻正在进行的动作以及过去某一阶段一直在进行的动作,常与表示过去的具体时间等连用,
如:this morning, the whole morning, all day, from nine to ten, last evening, at that time,at this time yesterday, at 9 last night , at that moment 。
或者在when, while, as引导的时间状语从句中使用。
现在进行时
am/is/are + doing
过去进行时
was/were+ doing(现在分词)
I was sleeping at 10 p.m. last night.
否定句:
I was not sleeping at 10 p.m. last night.
一般疑问句:
Was I sleeping at 10 p.m. last night?
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肯定句:
Yes, I was.
/No, I wasn’t.
was not = wasn’t
were not = weren’t
过去进行时的句式
1)基本结构:was/were + v-ing
2)否定式: was/were not + v-ing
was not = wasn’t
were not = weren’t
3)一般疑问句: was/were+主语+V-ing
4)特殊疑问句: wh-+was/ were +主语+V-ing
I was (not) sleeping at 10 p.m. last night.
You / We
/ They were (not)
He / She
/It was (not)
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Was I
sleeping at 10 p.m. last night?
Were you / we
/ they
Was he / she
/ it
一般疑