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Past Simple and Continuous IV

The document provides examples and exercises for practicing the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It contains questions and prompts requiring the use of these verb tenses, including questions about actions that were occurring and being interrupted by other events in the past. It also includes a short story passage for students to fill in verbs in the appropriate past tense.

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Past Simple and Continuous IV

The document provides examples and exercises for practicing the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It contains questions and prompts requiring the use of these verb tenses, including questions about actions that were occurring and being interrupted by other events in the past. It also includes a short story passage for students to fill in verbs in the appropriate past tense.

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PAST SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS IV

1.- Complete the questions with the past continuous form of the verbs in
brackets:
 What game on the computer? (you, play).
 to her boyfriend on the phone? (Mercedes, talk).
 Why the train to Malaga? (your father).
 How many the plane? (people, get in).
 Dark glasses? (the thieves, wear).
 Who with on that holiday? (we, travel).

2.- Complete the questions with where, what, why or how:


 were the thieves doing when the police arrived?
 was the dog making a lot of noise all night?
 many students were taking the students?
 was she going?
 were you singing that song?
 book were you reading?

3.- Complete the questions with the past simple or past continuous form of the
verbs in brackets:
 What subject (you, study) when school finished yesterday?
 What was your mum doing when you (get up) this
morning?
 What (you, wear) when you had breakfast today?
 (you, meet) your friends while you were coming to
school this morning?
 What were you doing when your English teacher (arrive) in
the classroom?
 Did you use a computer while you (do) your homework last
weekend?
4.- Choose the correct answers to complete the text:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish crime writer. He (1) 56 short
stories and four novels. Sherlock Holmes was his famous fictional detective. He
(2) with his assistant Dr Watson.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is about the mysterious death of Sir Charles
Baskerville. When they (3) his body, they also discovered the footprints
of an enormous dog. Some local people (4) Sherlock Holmes stories
about this horrible hound of the Baskervilles.
But Sherlock Holmes (5) them. While he and Dr Watson (6)
the crime, they (7) to suspect that there was another explanation.
(8) the hound really kill Sir Charles? Or was there a human murderer?
1. a) write b) wrote c) was writing
2. a) worked b) were working c) work
3. a) was finding b) finds c) found
4. a) tells b) told c) was telling
5. a) don’t believe b) didn’t believe c) wasn’t believing
6. a) was investigating b) were investigating c) investigates
7. a) began b) begins c) was beginning
8. a) Was b) Were c) Did

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