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SUBJECT: Simple Past and Past Continuous A) Fill in The Blanks With A Correct Form of PAST CONTINUOUS

The document provides examples and exercises to practice using the simple past and past continuous tenses in English. It includes fill-in-the-blank exercises with verbs in the past continuous tense about activities people were doing when other events occurred. There are also multiple choice and short answer questions about events in the past to be answered using either the simple past or past continuous appropriately. The document aims to help learners distinguish between and practice using these two past verb tenses.

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SUBJECT: Simple Past and Past Continuous A) Fill in The Blanks With A Correct Form of PAST CONTINUOUS

The document provides examples and exercises to practice using the simple past and past continuous tenses in English. It includes fill-in-the-blank exercises with verbs in the past continuous tense about activities people were doing when other events occurred. There are also multiple choice and short answer questions about events in the past to be answered using either the simple past or past continuous appropriately. The document aims to help learners distinguish between and practice using these two past verb tenses.

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SUBJECT : Simple Past and Past Continuous

A) Fill in the blanks with a correct form of PAST CONTINUOUS:

1. Alice hurt herself while she …was skating………………………………. (skate).


2. I met my neighbor while I was walking………………………. (walk) home from work.
3. Sally saw a friend while she…was riding………….. (ride) her bicycle along Park St.
4. Peter fell asleep while he ..was studying……………………… (study).
5. Bob stepped on Jane’s feet while they were dancing………………….. (dance) together.
6. I cut myself while I …was shaving………………………………. (shave).
7. Mr. and Mrs. Brown burned themselves while they …were baking…………... (bake)
cookies.
8. Tommy had a nightmare while he …was sleeping………….. (sleep) at a friend’s house.

B) How did it happen?

1. How did Alice hurt herself? (play soccer)


………………. She hurt herself while she was playing soccer. ………………………….
2. How did Martin burn himself? (iron his clothes)
……He burn himself while he was ironing his clothes…………………………
3. How did Helen cut herself? (slice onions)
……She cut herself while she was slicing onions…………………………………
4. How did Jennifer meet her husband? (fix a flat tire)
……She met her husband she was fixing a flat tire…………………………………
5. How did Marvin break his arm? (skate)
…….He break his arm while he was skating………………………………………………
6. How did you lose your wallet? (ride my bicycle)
……I lost my wallet while I was riding my bicycle………………………………………
7. How did Jeff meet his wife? (swim at the beach)
……He met his wife while he was swining at the beach…………………………………
8. How did Bob get a black eye? (fight with his brother)
……He got a black eye while he was fighting with his brother…………………………
9. How did your children burn themselves? (make breakfast)
……My children burnt themselves while I was making breakfast………………………
10. How did Martha fall? (dance)
……She fell while she was dancing………………………………………………

C) Fill in the blanks with a correct form, the PAST SIMPLE or the PAST CONTINUOUS:

1. He was talking………………………….. (talk) with Mary, when Mrs. Smith came in.
2. They studyed………………………… (study) two hours last night.
3. Jane was sleeping……………………………. (sleep) when the telephone rang.
4. As I walked………………………………. (walk) to the lab, I met my friend.
5. We watched………………………….. (watch) TV last night.
6. The customer payed………………… (pay) his cheque when he dropped his credit card.
7. The barber cut…………………………………. (cut) my hair yesterday.
8. She danced…………………………. (dance) when she hurt her ankle.
9. It was raining……………………………. (rain) hard when I got up.
10. It rained……………………………. (rain) hard last night.

D) Complete the sentences with the words in parentheses using the SIMPLE PAST or
the PAST PROGRESSIVE:

1. Sally was eating…… (eat) dinner last night when someone ………knocked….
(knock) on the door.
2. I began to study at seven last night. Fred ……came………… (come) at seven-
thirty. I was studying………… (study) when Fred …came………….. (come).
3. While I was studying……. (study) last night, Fred dropped by……
(drop by) to visit me.
4. My roommate’s parents ………called……………. (call) him last night while we
………were watching………………….. (watch) TV.
5. My mother called me around five. My husband came home a little after five. When he
………came………….. (come) home, I ………was talking…………….. (talk) to
my mother on the phone.
6. Yesterday Tom and Janice ……went………… (go) to the zoo around one. They
………saw………… (see) many kinds of animals. They stayed at the zoo for two hours.
While they ………were walking………… (walk) home, it …was begging.…….. (begin)
to rain, so they ………stoped………….. (stop) at a small café and …had……………
(have) a cup of coffee.
7. Yesterday afternoon I ………went……… (go) to visit the Parker family. When I
…was getting………….. (get) there around two o’clock, Mrs. Parker was………….. (be)
in the yard. She ……planted…………… (plant) flowers in her garden. Mr. Parker
…………was……….. (be) in the garage. He ………was working………….. (work) on
their car. He ……changed……………….. (change) the oil.

E) What’s the question?

how what where

how long what kind of who

1. ……………..Who did you visit …………….? I visited my cousin.


2. ……………What did you talked about…….? We talked about my job.
3. ……………Where did she go?…………….? She went to the beach.
4. ……………Who did she meet?…………….? She met her friend.
5. ……………What kind of did they speak?….? They spoke Russian.
6. ……………Where did they swim……………………….? They swam in the ocean.
7. ……………When did he have dinner…………………….? He had dinner at 8:00.
8. ……………What did you bake………………….? I baked an apple pie.
9. ……………Why did she cry…………………….? She cried because her dog ran away.
10. ……………How long did you stay……………………….? I stayed for a week.
11. ……………How did you come……………………….? I came home by train.
12. ……………How did he eat……………………….? He ate three hamburgers.
13. ……………How long did he leave………….? He left the restaurant at 9:00.
14. ……………Who did she write…………………….? She wrote a letter to her mother.
15. ……………How long did they study…………….? They studied all morning.
16. ……………How did you photos take…………….? We took a lot of photographs.
17. ……………What did you send……………….? We sent a postcard to our teacher.
18. ……………How did he feel…………………….? He fell asleep during the lecture.
19. ……………When did you lost your wallet…….? I lost my wallet while I was skating.
20. …………How did they cover their eyes….? They covered their eyes because they were
scared.

F) Fill in the blanks with a correct form of PAST CONTINUOUS:

1. It was very cold. The sun ………. was not shining. …………………. (not / shine)
2. It wasn’t a stormy night. The wind …was not blowing………………. (not / blow)
3. He wasn’t sleeping. He ………was looking…………………….. (look) at the ceiling.
4. They were having a rest. They …was not working………………….. (not / work).
5. They were very happy. They ……were enjoying……………………. (enjoy) the party.
6. He was at home. He ……was watching…………………. (watch) a movie on TV.
7. He was getting worse. He …………was not recovering……………… (not / recover).
8. We ……were traveling…. (travel) in the north of Turkey when we were on holiday.
9. She ……was driving……………. (drive) so fast when the accident happened.
10. I ………was not sleeping……………………(not / sleep) when you came in.

G) Complete the sentences with the words in parentheses using the SIMPLE PAST or
the PAST PROGRESSIVE:

1. While they …were traveling……………… (travel) to China, Marco …kept……. (keep)


a diary.
2. Mrs. White …………was driving…………. (drive) past a house in Main Street when she
…………saw…… (see) the ground floor on fire.
3. While he ……was flying……. (fly) off the MiamiCoast, the pilot ……saw….. (see)
sharks approaching the swimmers.
4. The fireman ………was fighting…………… (fight) the fire on a balcony below when he
……………heard…… (hear) someone’s shouts.
5. She ……was dying…… (die) while she …………ran……….. (run) after a bus.
6. We …………were having………….. (have) dinner when the electricity goes… (go) off.
7. She ……was thinking… (think) of something else while you were talking…….. (talk) to
her.
8. I ……saw….. (see) her while I ………was looking…………. (look) out of the window.
9. While the teacher …………was talking………….. (talk), the students ……were
looking…….. (look) at an insect on the ceiling.

I. Put the verbs in brackets in the past tense continuous.

1. Yesterday morning I wanted to go to the zoo, but I couldn’t. It (rain) was raining… heavily.
2. I called Maizie last night, but she was not at home. She (study) was studying… at the library.
3. While Marie (read) was reading a story, she fell asleep.
4. It (rain) was raining this morning when I left for my office.
5. Ted (shovel) was shovelling… the snow in front of his house.

II. Use either the simple past tense or the past tense continuous in the following sentences.

1. When I (drop) droped my cup, the coffee (spill)was spilling … on my lap.


2. When Susan (arrive) arrived the lecture had already started and the professor (write) was
writting on the whiteboard.
3. He (be)was very polite person. Whenever a woman (enter) was entering the room he (stand
up) was stand up.
4. Mr. Black (walk) was walking when Tom’s, dog (attack) attacked him.
5. The children (play)played yesterday afternoon.
6. I just (open) opened the envelope to take out the letter when the wind (blow) was blowing it
away.
7. As she (climb) climbed the ladder it (slip) was sliping and she (fall) fell .
8. He usually carries an umbrella, but when I (see) saw him yesterday he (not, carry) was not
carrying one.
9. They (want) wanted to go on a cruise last summer but they (can, not)can’t make up their
minds where to go so they (end up) ends up staying home.
10. He (ride) was ridding his bicycle every afternoon when he (be) was a child.

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