Past Progressive (was/were doing) 👩‍🏫 Basic English Grammar

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English with Jennifer


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Hi everyone. It's Jennifer here from English with Jennifer. You know, not
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everything that gets recorded makes it into a final lesson for YouTube. When I
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film with Flavia and Andreia for the Basic English series, some examples and
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practice tasks get cut, but practice and review are always useful. Right? So, I'm
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going to share some more examples of the past progressive. These examples didn't
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make it into the full lesson, but I'd like to share them with you, so you can
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learn from them now.
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What was I doing?
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You was...you were sitting in...?
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I was sitting in a place. I was sitting next to...next to the letters. ESL. The letters.
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Because I'm JenniferESL. So, I was sitting next to big letters. Um, I was at a
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conference, and a co-worker...colleague suggested, "Go sit there." I'm like, "Okay," so
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I was sitting next to the letters and she took the photo. Yeah. This is at the
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same conference. Can you guess where I was? This was in a park. Again, what was I
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doing? You were...I don't know. But actually this is good because we have different positions of the body.
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Right? Standing. Sitting. But here I'm on my knees. Do you know what we call that?
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Kneeling. Kneeling? You take "knee"..."kneel"... "kneeling." You were kneeling. So, sitting,
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standing, and kneeling. Using our knees. You were kneeling inside... Do you know
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what those are? The games. Which games? Olympic. Olympic Games, so we call those Olympic
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rings, just like the rings we wear on our fingers. Those are the Olympic rings, so,
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"Jennifer, you were kneeling inside the Olympic rings." That's hard, I know, but now
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you know sitting, standing, kneeling. Kneeling. You were kneeling inside the
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Olympic rings. We'll try one more. This is my neighbor's dog. Aw. Just like the flag. Ah! Holding? Yeah.
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You were holding a dog. A dog.
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Do you know what kind of dog that is? Do you know the kind? Beagle? Yeah! Is it the same in
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Portuguese? Yeah. Beagle. Now they have two beagles.
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Aw. They're so cute. One is sort of like medium, and the other one is so
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small. Yeah, so this is, um, one of them. I was holding the dog. I was holding the beagle.
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Would you like to see a video? Watch and tell me what you see.
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What was my dog doing? She was playing in the snow. She was rolling around in the
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snow. She was running around in the snow.
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She was having fun in the snow. Here's a series of photos. What was I doing?
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I was playing a game. If you're from Brazil, you know this game. I didn't know
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about it until Flavia and Andreia told me about it. This won't be recorded. Guess what I bought?
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Let me show you something. You're going to laugh.
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Ah! Look what I bought.
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Ah! Peteca! I found it.
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On Amazon.
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It was like...you told me in Brazil, petecas are like two dollars...one dollar. I paid, like, maybe 13. Oh!
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But I wanted it, so I thought, "Okay."
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It's good. It's nice. It doesn't break. I hit it. It falls. My children and I are trying. It's not easy. No.
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It's funny. I bought a peteca. It's funny.
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Well, that's all for now. I hope this short lesson was useful and interesting.
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