Matching Pairs Activity for PresentacionOnline version vidigame play by Jean Carlos Romero 1 I am writing a book 2 Past Continuous 3 Simple Past and past Continuous with When and While 4 Simple Past and past Continuous with When and While 5 I worked a lot 6 Past Simple He was running when he fell. Past Continuous Past Simple 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. to describe situacions in the past when an continuous action was interrumped. is a verb tense that is used to talk about things that happened or existed before now.