CICLO 2012-III Mdulo: 1 Week: 5

TECHNICAL ENGLISH I

Teacher: Maritza Dvila Chumpitaz

PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

El tema Past Continuous Tense lo encontrar en su libro All Star 1, pginas 118 y 119, as como en los materiales del curso, entre los que tenemos: Enlaces Interesantes y Bibliogrficos, Auto evaluaciones, y el Blog. Recuerde que lo fundamental es la prctica constante de cada uno de los temas y la auto-evaluacin de ellas.

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PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

This tense uses the verb To Be: WAS WERE. The action verbs must be in the ING form ( las reglas para la conjugacin son las mismas que hemos empleado en el presente progresivo ). The verb WAS is used with the pronouns I, He, She, It. The verb WERE is used with the pronouns They, You, We.
He was playing american football.

PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

I
HE

SHE

WAS
IT

PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

WE

THEY
YOU

WERE

AFFIRMATIVE SENTENCES
First, look at the examples: 1. She was reading a book. 2. Harry was listening to music last night. 3. Ricky and Patrick were drinking soda yesterday. Si analizamos las oraciones tendremos que, primero debe estar el nombre o pronombre, luego el verbo To Be (was were), despus el verbo de accin con ING y por ltimo el complemento.

NEGATIVE SENTENCES
Para las oraciones negativas debemos tomar como base las oraciones afirmativas y agregar la palabra NOT despus del verbo To Be: WAS NOT (WASNT) y WERE NOT (WERENT). Examples: 1.Affirmative: You were riding a bike yesterday night. Negative: You were not riding a bike yesterday night.

NEGATIVE SENTENCES
2.Affirmative: Kiara was working in her office. Negative: Kiara wasnt working in her office. 3.Affirmative: Bobby was eating bones. Negative: Bobby was not eating bones.

INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES
Para las oraciones Interrogativas tambin debemos tomar como base las oraciones Afirmativas y slo debemos cambiar la posicin entre el sujeto y el verbo To be (WAS WERE).

INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES
Affirmative:My sisters were swimming in the pool. No, they werent. Were your sisters swimming in the pool ?

INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES
Affirmative: Axel was playing chess.

Was Axel playing chess ?

Yes, he was.

WH - QUESTIONS
Las preguntas de informacin por lo general se hacen con palabras que comiencen con WH- , as tenemos: Where, when, why, who, what, how. Esta vez ya no podemos responder con YES o con NO porque las preguntas son de informacin.

EXAMPLES OF WH - QUESTIONS
What was Beatriz doing yesterday ?

She was writing an essay.

EXAMPLES OF WH - QUESTIONS
Where were you studying last year ? I was studying in this university.

WH - QUESTIONS
Como pudiste observar, la estructura despus de la palabra con WH- es la misma que hemos empleado en las oraciones interrogativas de Yes No. La diferencia est en que las respuestas deben darse en oraciones completas o con sentido coherente.

REMEMBER:
Si te hacen una pregunta con cualquier auxiliar o con el verbo To Be, la respuesta puede ser corta con YES o con NO. El auxiliar o verbo To Be debe ir acorde a la afirmacin o negacin. Si te preguntan con WAS tu respuesta debe ser con WAS. Practica un poquito todos los das. Participa en el foro. Ingresa a la Sala de Conferencias. Revisa los Enlaces Interesantes , Bibliogrficos y las Autoevaluaciones. Si tienes dudas consulta constantemente. Puedes hacerlo va E-mail. Revisa siempre el significado y la pronunciacin de las palabras nuevas en tu diccionario. Lee los textos de la Gua.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH !