PAST CONTINUOUS
UTILISATION : ACTION QUI ETAIT TRAIN DE SE DEROULER
AUXILIAIRE : WAS ou WERE
I. FORME AFFIRMATIVE
SUJET + AUX + VERBE + ING
ex : I WAS GOING TO THE SUPERMARKET
J'étais en train d'aller au supermarché
ex : THEY WERE COMING
Ils étaient en train d'arriver
II. FORME INTEROGATIVE
AUX+SUJET+VERBE+ING
ex : WERE YOU GOING TO THE SUPERMARKET ?
Etais tu en train d'aller au supermarché
ex : WERE THEY WATCHING TV ?
étaient-ils entrain de regarder la TV
III. FORME NEGATIVE
SUJET+AUX+NOT+VERBE+ING
ex : I WAS NOT WATCHING TV
Je n'étais pas entrain de regarder la tv
ex : THEY WERE NOT PLAYING ?
Ils n'étaient pas entrain de jouer
ex : THEY WEREN'T PLAYING ?
Ils n'étaient pas entrain de jouer
Verbe être au passé
I WAS I WASN'T
YOU WERE YOU WEREN'T
HE WAS HE WASN'T
SHE WAS SHE WASN'T
IT WAS IT WASN'T
WE WERE WE WEREN'T
YOU WERE YOU WEREN'T
THEY WERE THEY WEREN'T
ACCORD DE TEMPS
past continuous / past simple
ex : I WAS WATCHING TV WHEN THE PHONE RANG !
Je regardais la TV lorsque le téléphone a sonné
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what were you doing ?
Hey ! look who's here
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sis what a surprise !
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hey I didn't expect to see you here
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please join me! how was your day Julia ?
oh I had an awful day ! it seemed to be such
a lovely day at the beginning .
I was sitting on the balcony drinking a cup of
coffee the Sun was shining, someone was
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playing a violin in the street and I was
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enjoying a beautiful afternoon.
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I was feeling hungry so I decided to
make spaghetti but I realized that I
didn't have any tomato sauce so I went
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to the grocery store to buy some, after
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buying a few items, I finally found the
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tomato sauce; I was reading the label
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when the jar just slipped out of my
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hands and fell down there was glass and
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red sauce all over the floor and
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splattered all over my shoes I looked
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around and noticed that everyone was
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staring at me
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people were smiling and whispering to
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each other
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soon I noticed that I was leaving a
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trail of red footprints through the
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store I found a grocery store worker and
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I didn't know what I had just done. I
offered to help clean it up but he
declined. I was so embarrassed that I
wasn't even looking where I was going
and I knocked over display of chips I
was just standing there in shock. a
manager was walking by me that very
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moment and noticed the mess I had made I
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was expecting her to be angry but
she wasn't
she said they would take care of
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everything she was smiling .Maybe she was
thinking about how clumsy I was oh poor
you sis I'm sorry you had to go through
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this it was just a bad day and there's
more
well I was waiting to pay the check
out I realized I forgot my wallet home. I
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was mortified Oh No so what did you do I
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apologized and left all my shopping
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there
Maybe you're too tired and stressed out
you should take a few days off from work
and get some rest yeah you're right you
know .I called you yesterday at about 8:00 pm
. but you didn't answer what were you
doing you'll never guess what happened
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yesterday evening I was sitting in the
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living room watching TV when I suddenly
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felt a strong smell of smoke it was
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coming from the corridor outside our
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apartment I opened the door and saw
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smoke at the end of the corridor mrs.
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Brown lives there I grabbed the fire
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extinguisher and ran towards her
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apartment I opened the door and there
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was a big fire the flames were spreading
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quickly
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I put out the fire as fast as I could
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then I saw mrs. Brown in the living room
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she was lying down on the floor she was
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screaming for help help help she was
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bleeding I called the ambulance right
away. oh poor mrs. Brown
is she okay now yes luckily she's fine
but what happened it seems that the fire
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was started by some candles that were
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burning in the living room mrs. Brown
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was dozing off when the fire started she
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woke up and while she was trying to put
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out the fire she fell down and broke her
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arm she's really lucky to be alive
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thanks to you !you're a real hero
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and where were you Isabella when all that
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happened . what were you doing I was
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taking a shower so I didn't notice
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anything but when I came out of the
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bathroom I felt the smell of smoke and
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knew something was going on and I soon
found out everything ! I'm glad things
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turned out fine in the end I'm so happy
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to spend such a wonderful evening with
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my brother and my sister-in-law
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