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Extra IdeaThrow the Sentence. Throw a ball to a student and say an activity, e.g. Climb atree. The student has to reply, I was climbing a tree. They throw the ball to anotherstudent. While they are throwing it, you say another activity. The student whocatches it forms a sentence in the past continuous. If a student makes a mistake,they sit down. Keep playing until only one student is left.1.3 Past simple or continuous?A. Students complete the rule for using past simple and continuous. Check they understand in progress(still happening; not finished).Answers:• We use the past simple tense to talk about completed events in the past.• We use the past continuous tense to talk about events in progress in the past.B. Ask students if they can identify the woman in the picture. (Benazir Bhutto)Do they know when she died? (December 27, 2007)Look at the example sentences. Elicit whether there isany difference between them.Answer: No, there is no difference; the meaning is the same.Tell students to read the Past continuous or simple?section of the Language Reference.Language/Culture NotesBenazir Bhutto was Prime Minister ofPakistan from 1988-1990 and again from1993-96. She was running for PrimeMinister for a third time when she wasassassinated, just before the generalelection.C. In this exercise, students describe what these people weredoing when they heard the news.Students identify the activity in the pictures, and write sentences. There are many possible answers.Possible answers:1. Myint Myint San was burning a letter.2. Ko Lwin was carrying a sack of rice.3. Saw Htoo was climbing a tree.4. Jill and Bill were dancing.5. Daw Thandar was teaching / looking after her children.D. In pairs, students talk about what the people were doing when they heard the news.If you like, you can vary it by having students make dialogues about the people, disagreeing on whatthey were doing, e.g.Partner A: What was Myint Myint San doing?Partner B: She was having dinner.Partner A: No, she wasn’t! She was burning some envelopes.E. Students describe what these people were doing when something happened. The activity they weredoing is in the picture. The event that happened is written in the exercises. Students use all thisinformation to make sentences. There is more than one possible answer for some of them.Possible answers:1. U Maung Maung was getting dressed/was dressing when the thieves robbed the bank.2. Aung Ko was looking for his glasses when the car crashed into his garden..3. Hla Hla was working in a factory / drilling when the earthquake hit.4. Nang Seng was packing her clothes when the war started.5. Jack and Thiha were arguing when the police found them.24 UNIT 10