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C. Complete the following sentences by adding ‘used to’ and words of your own.

1. I when I was in Class I.

2. My father when he was in college.
3. My best friend when he lived next to my house.

4. My mother when I joined school.

The Past Continuous Tense

Read these sentences.

1. The birds were eating a strange fruit when Mai
An Tiem saw them. REMEMBER

2. I was reading a book when the bell rang. When we use a verb in the
past continuous tense, we
The highlighted verbs are in the past progressive write: was/were + main verb

tense. They indicate actions that were taking place at a + ing.
particular time in the past and continued for some time.

D. Use the past continuous tense form of the given verbs to fill in the blanks.

Sheena (cook) dinner for her family at 8 p.m. last night. Others

(wait) patiently for the dinner to be ready because they were hungry.
She (make) vegetable curry when the bell rang. Her friend paid a visit.

She also helped Sheena in the kitchen. They (roll) out chapatis when
there was a power cut. Anyway, they managed with candles and everyone had dinner
together.

The Simple Future Tense

In the previous class, we discussed the use of verbs in the simple future tense.
Read these sentences.

1. “Mai An Tiem will grow watermelons in the REMEMBER
mainland in Vietnam,” said his wife to the We use the main action words

fishermen. or verbs with ‘will’ or ‘shall’

2. “I will teach others how to grow watermelon,” said to talk about actions that will
Mai An Tiem. take place in future.

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