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Lesson objectives

In this lesson students will:

  • contrast the use of the past simple and the past continuous

  • ask and answer questions about an emergency

  • read a quiz about historical events

Exercise 2

  1. His brother was eating when the lights went out.

  2. His dad was walking down the street when the ground moved.

  3. Jay's sister was talking to her friends when someone shouted "Earthquake!"

  4. His grandparents were watching TV when everything fell off the shelves.

Exercise 3

  1. were staying

  2. had

  3. was

  4. were sleeping

  5. woke up

  6. were

Exercise 5

  1. were living

  2. disappeared

  3. 65 million

  4. when

  5. Pompeii

  6. was quickly

  7. 1666

  8. rebuilt

  9. an earthquake

  10. suddenly

  11. The Titanic