内容正文:
Review the sentences
(was /were + 动词现在分词) that we have studied in Unit 1 and Unit 2.
Talk about the pictures.
1. Alice was sitting with her sister by
the river.
2. It was sitting in a tree and smiling
at everyone.
3. They were having a tea party in the
garden.
4. Where was it going?
过去进行时与一般过去时的区别:
一般过去时与过去进行时时间都是发生在过去。一般过去时强调动作的发生或状态的存在;而过去进行时强调动作正在进行的延续性。
其结构: was / were + 动词现在分词
试比较:
I got up at five the day before yesterday.
前天我是五点起床的。
He was painting the lab the whole day yesterday.
昨天他一整天都在粉刷实验室。
一般过去时的时间状语主要有:yesterday (morning, afternoon, evening), last night (week, month, year), ago, the day before yesterday, in 2003, just now, long long ago, one day等。
过去进行时的时间状语有:
at this / that time yesterday, the whole evening, all day yesterday等。
试比较:
He introduced Tom to us just now.
刚才他向我们介绍了汤姆。
She was doing some washing all day yesterday.
昨天她洗了一整天的衣服。
1. Suddenly, all the lights in my house were going off / went off. There was heavy rain outside.
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