Ecco una spiegazione chiara e alcuni esercizi per praticare il Past Simple e il Past Continuous, con soluzioni alla fine.
📌 Spiegazione: Past Simple vs. Past Continuous
1️⃣ Past Simple (Passato Semplice)
Usiamo il Past Simple per:
✅ Azioni concluse nel passato (I visited my grandparents yesterday.)
✅ Eventi che si susseguono nel passato (She opened the door, walked in, and sat down.)
🔹 Struttura
- Affermativa: Soggetto + verbo al passato (+ complemento)
- I played football yesterday.
- Negativa: Soggetto + did not (didn’t) + verbo base
- She didn’t go to school last Monday.
- Interrogativa: Did + soggetto + verbo base
- Did you watch the movie last night?
2️⃣ Past Continuous (Passato Continuo)
Usiamo il Past Continuous per:
✅ Azioni in corso in un momento preciso del passato (I was studying at 8 p.m. yesterday.)
✅ Azioni interrotte da un’altra azione (I was watching TV when she called me.)
✅ Due azioni contemporanee nel passato (While she was cooking, I was reading.)
🔹 Struttura
- Affermativa: Soggetto + was/were + verbo -ing
- He was sleeping at midnight.
- Negativa: Soggetto + was not (wasn’t) / were not (weren’t) + verbo -ing
- They weren’t listening to the teacher.
- Interrogativa: Was/Were + soggetto + verbo -ing
- Was she talking on the phone?
📝 Esercizi: Past Simple o Past Continuous?
1️⃣ Completa le frasi con il tempo corretto (Past Simple o Past Continuous)
- I (watch) ______ TV when the phone (ring) ______.
- They (walk) ______ in the park when it (start) ______ to rain.
- She (study) ______ for her exam last night.
- While I (clean) ______ the house, my brother (play) ______ video games.
- We (go) ______ to the cinema last Friday.
- I (see) ______ my best friend while I (shop) ______ at the mall.
- They (not hear) ______ the alarm because they (sleep) ______.
- What (you/do) ______ at this time yesterday?
✅ Soluzioni
- was watching – rang
- were walking – started
- studied
- was cleaning – was playing
- went
- saw – was shopping
- didn’t hear – were sleeping
- were you doing
Se vuoi altri esercizi o più spiegazioni, fammelo sapere! 😊
