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Past Simple Vs Past Continuous Practice Ok

This document contains a grammar exercise distinguishing between using the past simple and past continuous tenses. It provides 20 sentences with blanks to fill in with verbs in their appropriate past tense form - either simple or continuous. The purpose is to practice selecting and conjugating verbs in the correct past tense based on the temporal relationship between two actions.

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Past Simple Vs Past Continuous Practice Ok

This document contains a grammar exercise distinguishing between using the past simple and past continuous tenses. It provides 20 sentences with blanks to fill in with verbs in their appropriate past tense form - either simple or continuous. The purpose is to practice selecting and conjugating verbs in the correct past tense based on the temporal relationship between two actions.

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Past Simple or Past Continuous?

Name: ………………………… Class: ………………… Date: ………………….

Choose the past simple or past continuous:

1. What ________________________ (you / do) when I


________________________ (call) you last night?

2. I ________________________ (sit) in a café when you


________________________ (call).

3. When you ________________________ (arrive) at the party, who


________________________ (be) there?

4. Susie ________________________ (watch) a film when she


________________________ (hear) the noise.

5. Yesterday I ________________________ (go) to the library, next I


________________________ (have) a swim, later I
________________________ (meet) Julie for a coffee.

6. We ________________________ (play) tennis when John


________________________ (hurt) his ankle.

7. What ________________________ (they / do) at 10pm last night? It


________________________ (be) really noisy.

8. He ________________________ (take) a shower when the telephone


________________________ (ring).

9. He ________________________ (be) in the shower when the telephone


________________________ (ring).

10. When I ________________________ (walk) into the room, everyone


________________________ (work).
11. It ________________________ (be) a day last September. The sun
________________________ (shine), the birds ________________________
(sing). I ________________________ (walk) along the street when I
________________________ (meet) an old friend.

12. He ________________________ (live) in Russia when the Revolution


________________________ (start).

13. When her train ________________________ (get) to the station, we


________________________ (wait) on the platform.

14. He ________________________ (be) so annoying! He


________________________ (always / leave) his things everywhere.

15. On holiday we ________________________ (visit) Rome,


________________________ (see) the Vatican, and
________________________ (spend) a few days at the beach.

16. Why ________________________ (you / stand) on a chair when I


________________________ (come) into the room?

17. They ________________________ (live) in Germany when they


________________________ (be) young.

18. At 7pm yesterday, we ________________________ (listen) to music.

19. When I ________________________ (leave) the house, it


________________________ (snow).

20. He ________________________ (work) in a bank when he


________________________ (meet) his wife.

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