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UNIT 1 | Practicing Cleanliness
Cleanliness means that there is no dirt, no dust, no stains, and no bad smells. The goals of cleanliness are health, beauty, absence of offensive odor, and avoiding the spreading of dirt and contaminants to oneself and others. Cleanliness gives rise to a good character by keeping the body, mind, and soul clean and peaceful. Maintaining cleanliness is the an essential part of healthy living because it is the cleanliness only which helps to improve our personality by keeping clean externally and internally.
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1.1 Reading Comprehension A Visit to the Park
02:05
1.2 Speaking: Seek and Respond
05:53
1.3 Language Practice: Must, Must not, Should, Should not | Modal Verbs
05:15
Grammar Lessons | Present Continuous Tense
05:01
1.5 Study Skills: Cloze Passage
02:03
3️⃣ Minute English 💡 💬
00:58
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Modals & Auxiliaries
ESL Games 🕹️🎮🎶
00:00
UNIT 2 | Understanding Physical Well Being
"What is wellbeing? Wellbeing is personal and subjective, but it also universally relevant. Wellbeing encompasses the environmental factors that affect us, and the experiences we have throughout our lives. These can fall into traditional policy areas of economy, health, education, and so on. But wellbeing also crucially recognizes the aspects of our lives that we determine ourselves: through our own capabilities as individuals; how we feel about ourselves; the quality of the relationships that we have with other people; and our sense of purpose."
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2.1 Reading Comprehension: A Dream that Brought a Big Change
02:06
2.2 Speaking: Showing Willingness and Unwillingness to do Something
16:04
2.3 Language Practice: Pronouns as Reference Words
05:54
Past Continuous Tense
05:23
2.4 Writing: Describing an Object
09:03
3️⃣ Minute English 💡 💬
03:04
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Past Continuous Tense
ESL Games 🕹️🎮🎶
00:00
UNIT 3 | Patience
"Patience is the ability to wait calmly for or through something. If it is a virtue, it seems likely that there must be some element of suffering in the waiting, even if the suffering is only boredom and not necessarily physical pain. Some commentators have suggested that patience is not a single virtue, but a combination of others, including: Self-control, to be able to control our own reactions to the situation, and endure it without complaint; Humility, to accept that you are no more important than anyone else, and there is no particular reason why you should not wait; and Generosity, to smile at the world even when it seems to be conspiring against you."
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3.1 Reading Comprehension: Try Again
01:21
3.2 Speaking: Agree or Disagree Politely
00:00
3.3 Language Practice: Nouns
06:05
3.4 Writing: Describing an Animal By Using Simple Present
06:44
3.5 Study Skills: Cloze Passage
04:47
3️⃣ Minute English 💡 💬
01:14
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Simple Present Tense
00:10:00
ESL Games 🕹️🎮🎶
00:00
UNIT 4 | The Value of Labor
"Every individual on earth deserves equal respect and harmony to be catered to. This vast topic deals with the importance of labor hood, the dignifying role of labor & their determination & devotion towards society. The value of labor can only be understood when their endless efforts will be recognized globally."
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4.1 Reading Comprehension: Diary Entry
02:39
4.2 Language Practice: Noun Gender
11:20
4.3 Writing: Narrative Writing
02:53
4.4 Writing Practice: How to write a story
05:25
4.5 Basic Grammar | Using Conjunctions
05:30
3️⃣ Minute English 💡 💬
07:12
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Story Elements
00:15:00
ESL Games 🕹️🎮🎶
00:00
UNIT 5 | Knowing Children From Other Nations
"Child development is a dynamic, interactive process. Every child is unique in interacting with the world around them, and what they invoke and receive from others and the environment also shape how they think and behave. Children growing up in different cultures receive specific inputs from their environment. For that the reason is there’s a vast array of cultural differences in children’s beliefs and behavior."
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5.1 Language Practice: Preposition of Time
14:32
5.2 Writing: Autobiography
03:29
5.3 Reading Comprehension | Children From Different Countries
02:56
5.4 Fun with Verbs
05:03
3️⃣ Minute English 💡 💬
01:28
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Prepositions
00:10:00
ESL Games 🕹️🎮🎶
00:00
UNIT 6 | Learning Through Personal Interests, Abilities And Hobbies
"I’ve always maintained that the only way to learn something properly is to get out there and do it. No one learned surfing by, pardon the pun, surfing the web. Sportspeople don’t learn new skills and advantages by reading instructions from a book; they train and make mistakes. Hobbies are a fantastic way of learning, simply because people get out there and actually practice their chosen discipline and experience trial and error, whether it is flower arrangers, woodworkers, or people who tinker with old tape players."
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6.1 Reading Comprehension: Yes, You Can
02:26
6.2 Language Practice: Wh Question Words
05:23
6.3 Writing a Descriptive
09:03
6.4 Grammar: Parts Of Speech
10:39
3️⃣ Minute English 💡 💬
01:19
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Descriptive Basics
00:10:00
ESL Games 🕹️🎮🎶
00:00
English – VI
About Lesson
Past continuous

The Past Continuous tense is an important tense in English. We use it to say what we were in the middle of doing at a particular moment in the past.

In this lesson we look at the structure and the use of the Past Continuous tense, followed by a quiz to check your understanding.

Learn how to use the past continuous to talk about the past, and do the exercises to practice using it.
 

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

I was
You were
He was
She was
It was
We were
You were
They were working

working
playing
living
talking

etc.

We use the past continuous to talk about the past:

  • for something which happened before and after another action:

The children were doing their homework when I got home.

Compare: The children did their homework when (= after) I got home.

This use of the past continuous is very common at the beginning of a story:

The other day I was waiting for a bus when …
Last week, as I was driving to work, … 

  • for something that happened before and after a specific time:

It was eight o’clock. I was writing a letter.

Compare: At eight o’clock I wrote (= started writing) some letters.

  • to show that something continued for some time:
  • My head was aching.
    Everyone was shouting.
  • for something that happened again and again:
  • I was practicing every day, three times a day.
    They were meeting secretly after school.
    They were always quarrelling.
  • with verbs which show change or growth:
  • The children were growing up quickly.
    Her English was improving.
    My hair was going grey.
    The town was changing quickly.

We do not normally use the past continuous with stative verbs. We use the past simple instead:

When I got home, I really needed (NOT was needing) a shower.

How do we make the Past Continuous tense?

The structure of the past continuous tense is:

subject + auxiliary be + main verb
conjugated in Past Simple
was, were present participle

The auxiliary verb (be) is conjugated in the Past Simple: was, were

The main verb is invariable in present participle form: -ing

For negative sentences we insert not between the auxiliary verb and the main verb.

For question sentences, we exchange the subject and the auxiliary verb.

Look at these example sentences with the Past Continuous tense:

subject auxiliary verb main verb
+ I was watching TV.
+ You were working hard.
– He, she, it was not helping Mary.
– We were not joking.
? Were you being silly?
? Were they playing football?


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