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Describing Background Events and Interruptions

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to describe an activity that was in progress when another event happened.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. I was cooking dinner when the electricity went out.
    2. While we were driving home, it started to rain heavily.
    3. She was talking on the phone when someone knocked on the door.
    4. What were you doing when you heard the news?
    5. They were waiting for the bus when they saw the accident.
  • Grammar Focus: Past continuous contrasted with simple past using when and while
  • Vocabulary Focus: interruption, suddenly, electricity, accident, meanwhile
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