Welcome to the New Headway Pre-Intermediate, fourth edition Teacher's Resource Disc – the complete resource for communicative activities, testing, and continuous assessment, with materials that you can customize for your students and your teaching situation.
This CD-ROM works in two ways: In your computer it has communicative activities, tests, and continuous assessment materials. In your CD player it has listening test material to use in class.
The simple past and the past continuous are two tenses commonly used to make general statements about the past. Although they are both past tenses their uses are quite different. The simple past tense is only used to say that something happened at some time in the past. I went to a Chinese restaurant yesterday. [...]
Despite the frightful name, past perfect continuous tense is simple to understand, and it is fairly easy to use.
What Is Past Perfect Continuous?
Past perfect continuous tense, also called past perfect progressive, shows something that both started and ended in the past using the helper “had” with “been” and the present participle form (-ing) of any continuous verb. Two actions that occurred in the past are frequently illustrated against each other to show cause and effect or timing.
If you are an ESL teacher you should know how difficult it is to teach tenses. Teaching the present continuous tense immediately after teaching the simple present tense can be confusing for students.
