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a Work with a partner and decide the correct order.
b Read the story and check.
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An embarrassing incident Rules
One day last summer I was walking through the
1 Look at the tenses in the story.
local park. lt was a hot day and I was eating an ice
a Complete these scntences.
cream. As I was walking past the boating lake, I saw
my friends, Carol and Jim. They were taking their I _ an ice cream.
dog for a walk. When we met, we stopped for a The poor man any harm.
chat. While we were talking, the dog suddenly
They dog for a walk.
jumped up and tried to get my ice cream. I pulled
They just , they were in hysterics.
my hand away and unfortunately the ice cream
came out of the cone. Now there was a bald man b fnis is the past continuous tense. It describes a
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behind me. The poor man wasn't doing any harm. continuous or unflnished action or state in the past.
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He was just sitting on a bench and reading a Find more examples in the story.
newspaper. Well, when I pulled my hand away. the C How do we make the past continuous tense?
ice cream flew through the air and it landed on the
d He.e are two questions in the present continuous
man's head. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry,
but Carol and Jim did. When I looked at them, they tense. Rewrite them in the past continuous tense.
Where is he sitting?
weren't just laughing, they were in hysterics. But I
was terribly embarrassed. Are they lau11hin.q?
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