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TEST-past Tenses

This document provides examples of using past tenses in English, including simple past and past continuous tenses. It contains exercises asking students to complete sentences in the past tenses based on descriptions of actions that were occurring at specific times in the past. The exercises cover putting verbs into the past continuous, simple past or past continuous tenses, making original sentences using these tenses, and translating sentences about past actions from Hungarian to English.

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TEST-past Tenses

This document provides examples of using past tenses in English, including simple past and past continuous tenses. It contains exercises asking students to complete sentences in the past tenses based on descriptions of actions that were occurring at specific times in the past. The exercises cover putting verbs into the past continuous, simple past or past continuous tenses, making original sentences using these tenses, and translating sentences about past actions from Hungarian to English.

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TEST-PAST TENSES

1. Answer the questions.

What were you doing at 5 yesterday afternoon?


…………………………………………………………………………………………………...
What were you doing at 3 yesterday afternoon?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………...
What were you doing at 8 yesterday evening?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………...
What were you doing at 7 this morning?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………...
What were you doing at 2 on Sunday afternoon?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………...
What were you doing at half past 7 this morning?
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2. Put the verbs into the past continuous. Translate.

I ……………………..……………(ride) a horse at quarter past 2 yesterday afternoon..


…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
When my mum came home, I …………………………………(study) History.
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
She ………………………………..(work) in the shop all day on Saturday.
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
At half past 8 they ……………………………..……….(travel) to Budapest.
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
The man ………………………………..…... (paint) the walls while we
………………………………………….…. (clean) the windows.
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
My brother ……………………………………...(skate) when he broke his leg.
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
What …………………………………………..(you/read) from 3 to 6?
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Tom and Patrick …………………………………………….(cut) the grass when I visited them.
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3. Put the verbs into simple past or past continuous

 I ………………………………(have) a bath when it …………………………..(start) to rain.


 We ………………………………..(sleep) when the window ……………………….
(break).
 She ……………………………..(do) his homework while his brother
………………………………….(listen) to music.
 I …………………….…………..(go) to school when I ………………………….(lose)
my money.
 When you ……………………..……….(open) the door, I
……………………………………..…..(read) a book.
 While the sun ……………………..………….(shine), the children
………………………………………(swim) in the lake
 He ………………………………..…(stand) near the lake when she
…………………………..………..(see) him.
 When she …………………..……………..(drive) home, she……………………………..
(have) an accident.
 She ………………………………. (close) the door and …………………………..(go)
away.
 While you……………………………………(play) cards I
………………………………..……..(do) my homework.
 She …………………………………..(ride) her bike when she
……………………………….………(fall)
 We ……………………………………(ride) bikes when we …………………………….
…..(meet) a famous singer.
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4. Make sentences. Put the verbs into simple past or past continuous

1. I / go / home / and / have / a bath


………………………………………………………………………………………………….
2. What / you / watch / while / I / do / my homework?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. My father / watch / a football match /while / my mum / talk / to her friend.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. The woman / buy/ a red dress/ she/ travel / in France.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. While / the students / write / a test / the teacher / watch / them
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
6. While / we / have / a picnic / somebody /steal /our car.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………. /12

5. Translate into English

Zenét hallgattam, miközben sétáltam.


…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Miközben az Interneten szörföztünk, anyu szendvicseket készített.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Futott, amikor elesett.
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Miközben a lánytesóm táncolt, én zongoráztam.
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Apu főzött, amikor eltörte a poharat.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Amikor a tanár meglátott engem, a padon ültem.
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