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Describing What Was Happening in the Past

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to describe an action that was in progress at a particular moment in the past.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. I was cooking dinner when you called me.
    2. She was studying at eight o’clock last night.
    3. We were waiting for the bus when it started to rain.
    4. They were playing soccer while their parents were talking.
    5. He was driving home when he saw the accident.
  • Grammar Focus: Past continuous for actions in progress, combined with past simple using when and while
  • Vocabulary Focus: cooking, waiting, raining, driving, accident
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