This document discusses the simple past and past progressive tenses through a series of example sentences. It provides sentences using both tenses and asks questions to test the reader's understanding of when to use each tense by identifying which sentence best conveys a past event, completed action, or ongoing action happening at the same time as another event.
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Simple Past and Present Progressive Review PPT
1. Simple Past and
Past Progressive
Kazue Suzuki
ISTE 635: Technology for Language Learning and Teaching
Biola University
2. Q: In which sentence did the game end
before the people left?
A. When the basketball game ended, the
people were leaving.
B. When the basketball game ended, the
people left.
3. Q: Which sentence tells us that JiEun
finished writing an essay?
A. JiEun wrote an essay.
B. JiEun was writing an essay.
4. Q: In which sentence do we know that the
vase fell on the ground?
A. The vase fell.
B. The vase was falling.
5. Q: Which sentence talks about two actions
that were in progress at the same time?
A. While it was raining, we were waiting
in the room.
B. When it rained, we waited in the room.
6. Q: In which sentence was the speech
interrupted?
A. When the bell rang, she gave a
speech.
B. When the bell rang, she was giving
a speech.