This document provides exercises to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions requiring the use of various verbs in the past tenses. The questions cover a range of everyday activities and events like watching TV, hearing noises, playing sports, talking, studying and more. The exercises are meant to help learners distinguish between and properly apply the past simple and past continuous tenses.
This document provides exercises to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions requiring the use of various verbs in the past tenses. The questions cover a range of everyday activities and events like watching TV, hearing noises, playing sports, talking, studying and more. The exercises are meant to help learners distinguish between and properly apply the past simple and past continuous tenses.
This document provides exercises to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions requiring the use of various verbs in the past tenses. The questions cover a range of everyday activities and events like watching TV, hearing noises, playing sports, talking, studying and more. The exercises are meant to help learners distinguish between and properly apply the past simple and past continuous tenses.
This document provides exercises to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions requiring the use of various verbs in the past tenses. The questions cover a range of everyday activities and events like watching TV, hearing noises, playing sports, talking, studying and more. The exercises are meant to help learners distinguish between and properly apply the past simple and past continuous tenses.
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PAST SIMPLE OR PAST CONTINUOUS
A.- Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or Past Continuous of the verbs in brackets. 1.- Kevin ________________________ (not wash) the car last weekend because he ___________________________ (not have) time. 2.- She ______________________ (learn) a great deal about plants and animals while she ________________________(live) up in the tree. 3.- Paparazzi _________________________ (take) photographs of her while she __________________________ (lie) on the beach. 4.- Mark __________________________ (yawn) while the teacher __________________________ (explain) the French Revolution. 5.- I ________________________ (see) Jane at the conference on the environment, but she _______________________ (not see) me as she ________________________ (listen) attentively. 6.- ___________________________ (you start) to worry when you ______________________ (hear) the news? B.- Complete the text. Use the correct form of the Past Simple or Past Continuous. Yesterday, a Bristol man ___________________ (watch) a football match on TV, when he _____________________ (hear) a strange noise outside. He ______________________ (open) the front door and went outside to investigate. While he _______________________ (stand) outside, the door _______________________ (shut) behind him. He _______________________ (not have) a key and it _________________________ (rain). He ____________________ (decide) to break a window to get in. Ten minutes later, as he ______________________ (climb) through the broken window, the police ____________________ (arrive). C.- Write the questions for the underlined words. 1.- The baby was crying because he was angry. _____________________________________________________________. 2.- It took them two hours to get there. _____________________________________________________________. 3.- Scientists travelled to the island to study the environmental situation. _____________________________________________________________. 4.- His father taught him to distinguish the different species of plants. _____________________________________________________________. 5.- The teacher told Marta off because she was talking all the time. _____________________________________________________________. 6.- The police arrested the arsonist immediately. _____________________________________________________________. D.- Put the words and phrases in order to make questions. 1.- doing / were / last night / you / what ____________________________________________________________. 2.- having / were / you / a bath ____________________________________________________________. 3.- tennis / yesterday / was / he / evening / playing
____________________________________________________________. 4.- they / about / were / talking / what ____________________________________________________________. 5.- was / you / she / studying with / yesterday ____________________________________________________________. F.- Correct the mistakes in the sentences. 1.- He studied English when he was at university. 2.- I no saw the basketball match last night. 3.- When did they made him captain of the team? 4.- He wined his first Olympic gold medal when he was nineteen. 5.- You do any sport yesterday? 6.- They didnt knew that he was the local tennis champion.
