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FIcha. Past Simple and Past Continuos

The document provides examples and exercises to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It includes fill-in-the-blank questions to choose between the past simple and past continuous forms, as well as short paragraphs to complete using those tenses appropriately. The goal is to demonstrate when to use each tense to accurately depict events that happened in the past.

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FIcha. Past Simple and Past Continuos

The document provides examples and exercises to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It includes fill-in-the-blank questions to choose between the past simple and past continuous forms, as well as short paragraphs to complete using those tenses appropriately. The goal is to demonstrate when to use each tense to accurately depict events that happened in the past.

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Grammar B1, Past simple and continuous.

1) Complete with past simple or past continuous. 1. Helen ____________ (do) her weekly shopping when she ____________ (meet) her old friend, June. 2. The sun ____________ (shine) when I ____________ (get) up this morning. I ____________ (feel) so tired! 3. Jim ____________ (wait) at one airport while Max ____________ (wait) at the other. What a disaster! 4. It ____________ (rain) very hard, so the referee ____________ (decide) not to play the match. 5. When the police ____________ (arrive) at the party, the music ____________ (play) very loud and everybody ____________ (shout). 6. The mail ____________ (arrive) very late today. It ____________ (come) after eleven o'clock. 7. Joan ____________ (become) very angry this morning. She ____________ (speak) to an important client and someone ____________ (enter) the room without knocking. 8. Hank ____________ (cook) in the kitchen. His sister ____________ (offer) to help but Hank ____________ (refuse). 1. Where _______ he ________ (go) when you _________(see) him yesterday? 2. The boys ________ (break) the window when they _______ (play) football. 3. I _______ (lose) all my money when I ________ (travel) from Prague to Budapest. 4. It ________ (rain) while I ________ (go) home. 5. When my mother _________ (clean) my room she __________ (find) all my love letters. 6. I __________ (stop) at a garage because my car __________ (make) a funny noise. 7. He __________ (think) of her while he __________ (travel) home. 8. The doorbell ___________ (ring) while I __________ (dry) my hair. 9. They ___________ (have) an accident when they __________ (come) back from holiday. 10. My grandmother first _________ (meet) my grandfather when he __________ (work) in the country. 11. I ________ (see) him at the party. He __________ (wear) jeans and a T-shirt. 12. She _________ (go) to sleep while I __________ (tell) her about my boyfriend. 13. When I __________ (look) at him I saw that he _________ (cry). 14. They ___________ (clean) the house all day yesterday. 15. They ___________ (play) in the garden when it __________ (start) to snow. 2) Complete the text with the past simple and past continuous: Last night, while I was doing my homework, Angela. (call) . She said she (call) me on her cell phone from her biology classroom at UCLA. I asked her if she.. (wait) for class, but she said that the professor was at the front of the hall lecturing while she (talk) to me. I couldn't believe she .(make) a phone call during the lecture. I asked what was going on. She said her biology professor was so boring that several of the students ..(sleep, actually) in class. Some of the students .. (talk) about their plans for the weekend and the student next to her (draw) a picture of a horse. When Angela. (tell) me she was not satisfied with the class, I (mention) that my biology professor was quite good and ..(suggest) that she switch to my class. While we were talking, I .(hear) her professor yell, "Miss, are you making a phone call?" Suddenly, the line went dead. I (hang) up the phone and went to the kitchen to make dinner. As I .. (cut) vegetables for a salad, the phone rang once again. It .. (be) Angela, but this time she wasn't sitting in class.

Grammar B1, Past simple and continuous.

3) Complet the gap with correct form of the following verb: -congratulate finish go talk think be do start draw work become move become move ask die study Robert Smith is one of the richest people in England. Heborn in Liss, a village in the South of England. He to school in the village and at 18 he .to London. He ..work as an office boy for an important oil company. While he .one of his menial jobs, he of a way of saving the company millions of pounds. He for an interview with the President of the company. At the interview, while he ., the President.pictures on a piece of paper. He didnt look impressed. But when he .., the President ..him and named him Vice-President. When the President.he his successor and today he is one of the richest people in England 4.-Complete the text with the past simple or the past continuous. My friends and I (1) ................. (enjoy) my birthday party when suddenly the lights (2) ................. (go) out. I (3) ................. (think) that my brother (4) ................. (try) to scare everyone. I (5) ................. (shout), Switch the lights on! but nothing (6) ................. (happen). While we (7) ................. (wait) in the darkness, somebody (8) ................. (scream). Suddenly, I felt scared.

I . (listen) to some music in my room when I .... (hear) a loud bang in the street, so I . (go)outside to investigate. The weather was terrible. The wind .... (blow) hard and it. (rain) a lot. Then I . (see) what the problem was. A motorbike (lie)on the ground next to a tree. Suddenly somebody (say) Please, help me I .(look) around and there was the motorbike rider, also on the ground.

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