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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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