Simple past and past continuous

Here you are the two presentations we did in class, in case you want to have a look at them again:

Simple Past Tense

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Past Continuous Form And Use

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Quizzes: Revision for Basic Level

Thanks to bab.la you can do some quizzes to check your knowledge so far (SOURCE: http://en.bab.la/quiz/ ):


- Present simple/present continuous:

- Irregular simple past:

- Present perfect/simple past:

- Gerund/infinitive:

- Colocaciones básicas en inglés:

NI 1: Module 7: Lesson 2

Module 7. Lesson 2: American or British English?

*** American English / British English
** list of different words

*** British English versus American English: Read and listen (click at the bottom of the answer to listen to it)

*** Writing:
Suggested composition: "The year I travelled to ..." (Write about a memorable journey you have done - real or invented - and explain why you still remember it)



*** Grammar
- Simple past/past perfect: Explanation
- More
- Simple past or Past perfect: Exercise 1
- Simple past/past perfect: Exercise 2
- Exercise 3

- Revision: Choose the grammar exercises you may need to practise more

- A listening explanation of prepositions and gerund
- more about prepositions and gerund
- prepositions + -ing form
- exercise 1
- exercise 2

- one/-/ones used as pronouns

NB 2: Lesson 2: Simple past/ past continuous

*** New English File exercises

Watch this power point and do the exercises:

Past Simple Tense

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Now, do the same with this power point related to the use of past continuous:

Past Continuous Tense

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Past Tense Regular Verb Pronunciation

These two videos will be very useful for those who still have problems with the pronunciation of "ed" in regular verbs: