Matching Pairs Activity for PresentacionOnline version vidigame play by Jean Carlos Romero 1 Past Continuous 2 I worked a lot 3 Simple Past and past Continuous with When and While 4 I am writing a book 5 Past Simple 6 Simple Past and past Continuous with When and While is a verb tense that is used to talk about things that happened or existed before now. Past Continuous Past Simple to describe situacions in the past when an continuous action was interrumped. He was running when he fell. refers to a continuing action or state that was happening at some point in the past. ... It can also be used to describe something that was happening continuously in the past when another action interrupted it.