Guia Ingles

Past Continuous Simple Past

[was/were + present participle]

Examples:

 You were studying when she called.

 Were you studying when she called?

 You were not studying when she called.

USE Interrupted Action in the Past

Use the Past Continuous to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted. The interruption is usually a shorter action in the Simple Past. Remember this can be a real interruption or just an interruption in time.

[VERB+ed] or irregular verbs

Examples:

 You called Debbie.

 Did you call Debbie?

 You did not call Debbie.

Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes, the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind.

PAST PROGRESSIVE

Positive Negative Question

I / he / she / it I was speaking. I was not speaking. Was I speaking?

you / we / they You were speaking. You were not speaking. Were you speaking?

Exceptions in Spelling

Exceptions in spelling when adding ing Example

final e is dropped (but: ee is not changed) come – coming

(but: agree – agreeing)

after a short, stressed vowel, the final consonant is doubled sit – sitting

l as final consonant after a vowel is doubled (in British English) travel – travelling

final ie becomes y lie – lying

SIMPLE PAST TENSE

To make the past tense of most verbs (regular verbs) we simply add “ed” at the end.

Examples using the verb “walk”:

Past Tense: I walked through the maze.

(The past participle form is used in the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tenses. The above example is written in the present perfect tense.)

Irregular verbs are not that simple. We sometimes need a dictionary to help us write the different forms of irregular verbs.

Examples using the verb “see”:

Past Tense: We saw the secret maps.

 Now, read the following short text and rewrite it but in simple past:

Jerry´s Letter

Dear mom and dad,

Well I want to tell you about my first week of classes at the University. Wow am I ever busy! I get up at 6:00 every morning. That is really early for me. I don't like to get up early you know. I usually eat breakfast in the school cafeteria. The food here is pretty good. I have German class every morning at 7:30. After German class I have Business and Economics on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10:00. I have a lot of homework in that class but I really like it. It's interesting. I also have English Composition on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have United States History.

The campus here is really big. The first day I was lost. I did not know where to find anything. Now I know where all the buildings are and I know where my classrooms are. That's the most important. My dormitory is close so I walk to all my classes. It's only about ten minutes.

My roommate's name is Eric. He is from Los Angeles. We get along well. He is quiet and doesn't make a lot of noise. Sometimes Eric and I have dinner together. We don't see each other much though because our schedules are really different.

During the evening I study. Sometimes I study in the library and sometimes in the dormitory. I have to write three reports this semester so I have to read some books in the library. I usually go to bed around eleven.

Mom I sure miss your cooking. Do you think you could send me some of your homemade chocolate chip cookies? Well I have to go. Take care.

Love,

Jerry

Actividades de Reflexión Inicial.

 In this activity you have to go to the forum and develop the following activity:

Read the following text:

Milling is the machining process of using rotary cutters to remove material from a workpiece advancing (or feeding) in a direction at an angle with the axis of the tool. It covers a wide variety of different operations and machines, on scales from small individual parts to large, heavy-duty gang milling operations. It is one of the most commonly used processes in industry and machine shops today for machining parts to precise sizes and shapes.

Milling can be done with a wide range of machine tools. The original class of machine tools for milling was the milling machine (often called a mill). After the advent of computer numerical control (CNC), milling machines evolved into machining centers (milling machines with automatic tool changers, tool magazines or carousels, CNC control, coolant systems, and enclosures), generally classified as vertical machining centers (VMCs) and horizontal machining centers (HMCs). The integration

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