10/03 Monday. Class 18

Hello

Today we´ve started a new topis "Nature attacks". We learnt some new words related to natural disasters (a fire, an earthquake, a flood, a volcanic eruption, a hurricane etc.). 

Also we learnt some expressions to describe these disasters (to shake, to wobble, to blow away, to overflow, to spread, thick smoke, strong winds, heavy rains, flames, lava etc.).

If you want to practise the vocabulary, click on this link here.

Watch the video and learn new vocabulary: Video 

Also we got to know a new grammar item - Past Continuous.
We form Past Cont. with the help of "to be":
was
were         +          Verb-ing

I was watching TV yesterday in the evening.
We were playing basketball at 6 p.m.

We use it to emphasize the action in duration in the past (it not only happened in the past, but it lasted for some time).

Very often Past Cont. is used with Past Simple, when one action in the past interrupts another one in duration:
I was cooking dinner when the telephone rang.

Also we can have two continuous actions happening at the same time:
I was reading a book while my mother was cooking dinner.

Here´s the list of exercises to practise Past Cont. - link.

Your homework is to do the exercises in your copies.