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Act. 1: Complete the sentences in the past simple or past continuous.
a. It ___________ (HAVE) big eyes. It ________________ (GLOW) with a green light and it ___________________ (WALK) in the forest. 
b. He ________________________ (RUN) when he _______________ (SEE) the word “die” and ____________________ (SCREAM). 
c. They ____________________ (HAVE) breakfast when he ________________ (TELL) his family that the creature ____________ (BE) an alien.
 d. He __________________ (WALK) in the forest when he ______________ (HEAR) a strange sound. A bus _________________ (COME). It ________________ (BE) the Springfield Orchestra. 
e. Homer _________________ (BE) at Moe’s bar. He __________________ (DRINK) some beer.
 f. He _______________ (TRIP) over. He ______________ (FALL) to the ground. 
g. He ________________ (SEE) a very strange creature. 
h. He _________________ (GET) home. When he _________________ (ENTER) the bedroom, Marge _____________________ (WAIT) for him. It ________________ (BE) 2 am. 
i. It ____________________ (SAY) “Don’t be afraid”. Homer _______________ (RUN) away. 
j. He ________________ (BE) drunk. He ________________ (DECIDE) to walk home. 

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Past  Continuous Tense

Usage :

Formulation :

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Simple Past Tense

Usage :   Simple past tenses used to express the actions that happened in the past or happened one after the other.

Formulation : subject+ simple past+ object.

Regular and irregular verbs: (begin, began) (break, broke) (catch, caught) regular: (watch, watched) (clean, cleaned)

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Past Continuous Tense

Usage : The past continuous describes actions or events in a time before now, which began in the past and is still going on at the time of speaking.

Formulation : The past continuous is made from the past tense of the verb be and the –ing form of a verb

Example: They were eating lunch when I arrived.

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Simple Past Tense

Usage : the simple past tense is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now.

Formulation : verbs negative, and it's the same for both regular and irregular verbs (except for the verb to be)

Regular and irregular verbs:
selected, started, talked
blew, broke, brought.