🇬🇧 Past simple and past continuous - English B2 lesson 6, Post Intermediate
📚 Past Simple vs. Past Continuous | English Grammar Lesson (B2) | Lesson 6 📚
Welcome back to Professeur d’Anglais! 🇬🇧✨ In this 6th lesson of our B2 English series, we’re diving into the Past Simple vs. Past Continuous—two essential tenses for talking about the past! 🕰️
🔹 Past Simple – Used for completed actions or states in the past.
✅ Example: "I saw someone famous yesterday!"
✅ Example: "He took the train to work every day."
🔹 Past Continuous – Used for actions in progress at a specific time in the past or to set the scene in a story.
✅ Example: "We were having breakfast at 8 o’clock."
✅ Example: "The sun was shining, and I was walking along the road when suddenly..."
Watch the full lesson to master when to use each tense and how to combine them for fluent storytelling! 🎥✨
👉 Practice Time! Drop a short sentence in the comments using both tenses! I’ll check your answers. 👇😊
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In order to make the most of those lessons, it is best to follow the whole series in order starting from video 1.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and hello
00:15 How well do you remember the past?
02:47 My memories – what are the missing words?
05:07 Find eight past simple verbs (irregular and regular)
07:02 Concept check: past simple
08:00 Find seven examples of the past continuous
09:28 Concept check: past continuous
09:34 Past simple Vs Past continuous
10:39 New vocabulary
11:04 Your turn past simple Vs Past continuous.
15:01 Thanks, today’s task and good bye