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1. Insert The Past Simple Tense or The Past Continuous. Explain your choice.

1. John ___________________(repair) his motorbike when his mother ___________________(arrive). 2. We


___________________(go) swimming every week when we were young. 3. Simon ___________________(dance) when he
___________________(fall) and ___________________(hurt) his leg. 4. It __________________ (not / be) a very
comfortable journey. 5. I__________________ (know) that ages ago. 6. I ___________________(eat) my lunch when the
phone ___________________(ring). 7. Why ___________________(you/laugh) all through your history lesson ? 8. I
___________________(drink) a cup of milk every day when I ___________________(be) a child. 9. We
___________________(see) a road accident as we ___________________(drive) to the airport. 10. Todd often
___________________(ride) horses when he ___________________(be) a boy. 11. It ___________________(rain) while
I ___________________(wait) for the bus. 12. Debbie ___________________(sing) in the school choir many years ago.
13. He ___________________(open) the door, ___________________(switch on) the light and
___________________(get undressed). 14. The sun ___________________(shine) and the birds
___________________(sing). 15. Dickens ___________________(write) Oliver Twist. 16. In the 19 th century footballers
___________________(not/wear) shorts, they ___________________(wear) trousers. 17. The students
___________________(not/hear) instructions because they ___________________(not/listen) to the teacher. 18. My mum
___________________(drop) her money when she ___________________(run) for the bus. 19. The
fire___________________(start) at 3.20 am. 20. Two fire-fighters ___________________(enter) the burning building but
___________________ (find) the couple dead. 21. But this morning __________________ (I/get) up early and
__________________ (do) it again. 22. Rachel __________________ (come) down the stairs when the lights
__________________ (go) out. 23. My grandmother__________________ (die) last year. 24. The
streets__________________(be) crowded with people.
Used to (зазвичай, раніше, як правило)
2. Replace sentences in Past Simple with the construction used to. We collected stickers. I was naughty at the age of four. My father
won a few chess contests when he was a teenager. My mother had long hair when she was a student. A hundred years ago people
spent more time with their families. Children wore a school uniform some ten years ago.
3. Make up questions with the following phrases using the construction used to: You/learn English at nursery school; You/make
many spelling mistakes at primary school; Your mum/be a shy girl; She/drink tea in the morning; He/ride a scooter at the age of six;
Kings/wear a wig in the 15th century.
4. Choose the correct form: Past Simple or the construction used to.
1) Da Vinci used to be/was born in Italy.
2) Did you use to be/Were you a teacher's pet at primary school?
3) I used to have/had a bath and used to go/went to bed early last night.
4) She did not use to play/ did not play with other girls as a child.
5) Our family used to go /went on holidays to the mountains. But in 2001 we used to spend /spent two weeks sailing on the lakes.
5. Correct the mistakes.
1.He was washing the car while the fire started. 2.Neil was studying when his sister was listening to music. 3.We were
having lunch at a lovely restaurant every day when we were on holiday. 4.Ann drank tea at 5 o’clock yesterday. 5.Dad was
repairing TV while mum cooked dinner. 6.I was buying a new dress for my party yesterday. 7.While Jeff built the garden
shed, he hurt himself. 8.While the teacher were speaking, the students were listening to her.
6. Look at the part of diary describing a morning's walk along the coast. Insert The Past Simple Tense or The Past
Continuous.
It was a fine day when I __________________(start) out on the last part of my walk around the coast of Britain. The sun
___________________(shine), and a light wind ___________________(blow) from the southwest. I was pleased that it
___________________(not/rain). I knew by now that I___________________(not/like) like rain. In fact I
___________________(hate) it. I ___________________(walk) along the cliff top and then down into the lovely little
fishing village of Wellburn, past a cafe where people ___________________(have) morning coffee.
7. Put the verbs into the past perfect or past simple.
1. Tom ________________(return) from the cinema at 5 o’clock. 2. Tom ________________(return) from the cinema by 5 o’clock. 3.
When father ________________(come) from work , we already________________(do) our homework. 4. When the teacher
________________(enter) the class, the pupils already ________________(open) their books. 5. Kate ________________(give )
me the book which she ________________(buy) the day before. 6. By 2 o’clock the teacher ________________(examine) all
students. 7. By the time the train ________________(reach) the city, he ________________(make) friends with many people. 8. She
________________(buy) a beautiful dress, ________________(wrap) it in paper and ________________(send) to her niece.
8. Use past perfect or past continuous. 1. I _____________ (to listen) to the news on television at 9 o’clock last night. 2. After I
_____________ (to eat), they cleared the table. 3. I _____________ (to sleep) when my friend called. 4. When _____________ (to
buy) some fruit I went to the beach. 5. He was broke. He _____________ (to spend) all his money. 6. By the time he arrived,
everyone _____________ (to leave).

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