🌌 Where Were You When…? Past Simple vs Past Continuous
B1 Grammar Lesson 02 contrasts Past Simple (events) and Past Continuous (scenes) through 'Where Were You When…?', a magazine feature with five teen stories from India, Finland, Italy, Peru, and Egypt. Two-card grammar comparison, an interruption-pattern timeline with when/while/as, a stative-verb reminder, twelve common irregular verbs, 10 storytelling vocabulary items, six flashcards, 8 practice MCQs, partner speaking with a model dialogue, an 80–100 word writing task, and a 10-question quiz with progress bar and localStorage persistence.
Lesson Plan
- 4 'cast your mind back' questions priming both past tenses
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Past Simple for completed events, sequences, past states, and past habits
- Past Continuous (was/were + -ing) for actions in progress, scenes, two simultaneous past actions, and interrupted actions
- Time expressions: Past Simple (yesterday, last week, in 2018, then) vs Past Continuous (while, as, at 8 yesterday, all day)
- The interruption pattern: when + Past Simple event, while/as + Past Continuous scene
- Stative verbs (know, understand, love, hate, want, believe, have, see) stay simple in the past — no -ing form
- Twelve common irregular Past Simple forms: go-went, see-saw, have-had, do-did, come-came, take-took, get-got, make-made, know-knew, think-thought, feel-felt, run-ran
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