Let's look at some examples of past tenses. So I was studying English for hours yesterday. Okay, and so this is kind of a longer period of time you want to say I was studying English for hours past continuous. Okay, the next example then I played football on Saturdays. Okay, this is kind of a common thing that you used to do the past about this example. She ate toast for breakfast.

Okay, past simple here. In this case, it's just something that happened quite quickly. Okay. She ate the toast for breakfast. She was looking out the window all morning. Okay?

Past continuous because again this is a bit longer like if she just looked at the window, she looked at the window past simple, then it's fast it happens quickly. Okay. In this case it's all morning so she was looking at the window all morning she was talking in French Okay, it's again a longer period of time in the conversation. She was talking in French. Where was john? Okay, is this something short?

Or something longer? He was swimming at the pool. past continuous okay. What were you doing? Okay, did you have help in the question? What were you doing?

I was watching TV. Okay, we have more examples here. The first one is the past simple and the second one is the past continuous. So the difference is I looked at the window, it happened quickly. And in the past continuous I was looking at the window when I saw a man Okay, and sometimes we can use as an example like that.