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Past Continuous Tense vs. Past Simple: The Mysterious Stalker (Suspense Thriller Short – ESL Video)
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Watch the suspense thriller short about Elissa and the mysterious stalker \u0026 present the past continuous tense vs. past simple to students in a preintermediate level lesson.
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Title of English / ESL Video:
Elissa and the Mysterious Stalker
Target English Grammar:
Past Continuous Tense vs. Past Simple Tense. (Also known as Past Progressive Tense and Simple Past Tense)
Student Proficiency Level:
Preintermediate level grammar
Suggested Courses:
General English.
Instructions:
– Play the video in class after delivering a warmup activity first.
– Pause the video whenever the narrator asks students a question to give students time to answer. For example, after elicitations and concept checking questions (CCQs).
Summary of English Grammar: Past Continuous Tense vs. Past Simple
Approximate chronological order:
Storyline:
– Starts at 0:00. Ends at 2:40.
English Grammar Rules and Explanations:
Function:
– To talk about an action still in progress in the past.
Timeline:
– Someone was chasing her.
– Someone started chasing her in the past, but we don’t know when.
– That person stopped chasing her some time in the past. Again, we don’t know when.
– We are talking about the whole period from the beginning of the chase to the end.
Specific Uses:
– Background event:
– On a cold dark night, Elissa was working late at the office.
– This sentence sets the setting and the background of the story.
Simple Past:
– To talk about completed or repeated actions.
– She quickly ran into the cemetery.
– This action is finished and completed.
– When we use two simple past actions, the second action happened after the first action. For example,
– She quickly ran into the cemetery and hid there.
– So she ran into the cemetery first, then she hid inside the cemetery.
Combining the Past Progressive Tense with the Simple Past:
– Past progressive = longer action
– Past simple = shorter action
– The shorter action happened while the longer action was still in progress. But sometimes these two actions happen at the same time.
– Example: As she was leaving her office, she realised the streets were now empty.
– Elissa leaving her office is the longer action.
– Elissa realising the streets were empty is the shorter action.
– So Elissa was leaving her office and during this time, she noticed the streets were now empty. But she didn’t stop leaving the office when she noticed this.
Specific Uses:
– Interruption: Sometimes a shorter action interrupted a longer action.
– Example: While she was walking back home, she heard some footsteps behind her. She turned around to look.
– Elissa walking back home is the longer action.
– Hearing the footsteps is the shorter action.
– In this case, the footsteps interrupted her walking and made her stop to look back before she continued walking again.
Multiple Progressive Actions in the Same Sentence:
– Multiple actions happening at the same time.
– Example: I was walking home and someone was following me.
– We don’t know which action started first.
– We also don’t know which action finished first.
– We only know that during a certain period in the past these two actions were happening at the same time.
– We can use more than two past progressive actions in the same sentence, and all these actions were happening at the same time some time in the past.
Form:
Statements:
Subject + was/were + verb (ing) + …
Elissa + was + working + late.
Yes/No Questions:
Was/were + subject + verb (ing) + …?
Was + Elissa + working + late?
Open Questions:
Wh/How + was/were + subject + verb (ing) + …?
Why + was + Elissa + working + late?
Conjunctions:
– We use conjunctions to join past simple and progressive actions.
– Example conjunctions: while, when, as.
– Example sentence 1: While she was walking back home, she heard some footsteps behind her.
– Example sentence 2: When Elissa was hiding, the footsteps stopped.
– Example sentence 3: As she was running, she saw a cemetery.
Switching the Order of the Tenses:
– We can also place the simple past action at the front of the sentence before the past continuous action.
– Example: She heard some footsteps behind her while she was walking back home.
Concept Checking Questions (CCQs)
Present perfect vs Present perfect continuous, Presente perfecto vs Presente perfecto continuo
Explicación de cómo distinguir el presente perfecto del presente continuo del inglés en ejercicios. Lección en español.
Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous – English grammar tutorial video lesson
Present perfect and present perfect continuous/ progressive video tutorial. This tutorial is about the present perfect
and the present perfect continuous. In this tutorial
I’m going to show you how to form and when to use a present perfect and how to form and when to use a present perfect continuous.
Take a look at these sentences:
I have worked since 5 o’clock in the morning.
I have been working since 5 o’clock in the morning.
The first sentence is in the present perfect tense,
the second sentence is in the present perfect continuous tense. First we are going to take a look at how to form a present perfect. For the regular verb to have and a past participle. A past participle can be made by adding ed to the base form of the verb.
For example:
I have walked the dog.
For the irregular verbs we also use the auxiliary verb to have and a past participle but here the past participle has its own unique form.
She has driven my car.
The infinitive form of the verb is ‘to drive.’
A present perfect continuous is made by have and been which is the past participle form of the verb ‘to be.’
We use the base from of the verb and we add ‘ing.’
For example I have been walking the dog, and she has been driving my car. Please note that we do not need to pay attention to the regular and irregular verbs. Now let’s have a look at the difference between the two. A present perfect is used for a thing, which can either be an activity or a state
which started in the past and has continued into the present. For example:
I have broken my leg and I have talked to him.
The present perfect continuous is used for an activity that started in the past and has continued into the future.
For example:
I have been talking to him.
We cannot say:
I have been breaking my leg.
We also use the present perfect continuous when talking about things that are annoying.
He has been shouting at me for over half an hour.
What Have You Been Doing? – Present Perfect Continuous
Learn how to use Present Perfect Continuous through this story. There are many examples in the video that can help you understand this tense easily and use it correctly.
PAST PRESENT FUTURE | 12 English Tenses | Learn English Grammar Course
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Learn the Past Tense, Present Tense, and Future Tense in this English grammar course.
0:00 12 English Tenses Introduction
0:22 Present Simple Tense
23:51 Present Continuous Tense
41:11 Present Perfect Tense
1:01:19 Present Perfect Continuous Tense
1:20:38 Past Simple Tense
1:37:39 Past Simple Continuous Tense
1:57:00 Past Perfect Tense
2:11:33 Past Perfect Continuous Tense
2:24:33 Future Simple Tense
2:37:05 Future Continuous Tense
2:50:38 Future Perfect Tense
3:00:38 Future Perfect Continuous Tense
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