Put The Verbs Into The Correct Form (Past Progressive)

Put the verbs into the correct form (past progressive).
1. When I phoned my friends, they (play)
monopoly.
2. Yesterday at six I (prepare)
3. The kids (play)
dinner.
in the garden when it suddenly began to rain.
4. I (practice)
the guitar when he came home.
5. We (not / cycle)
all day.
6. While Alan (work)
in his room, his friends (swim)
in
the pool.
7. I tried to tell them the truth but they (not / listen )
8. What (you / do)
yesterday?
9. Most of the time we (sit)
10. I (listen)
in the park.
to the radio while my sister (watch)
TV.
11. When I arrived, They (play)
12. We (study)
cards.
English yesterday at 4:00 pm .
Write correct sentences:

Yesterday at 6 pm your family were doing different things. Write positive sentences
in past progressive.
1. My mother / read / a novel
2. My father / watch / a movie
3. My elder sister / writing / in her diary
4. My two brothers / listen / to the radio
5. My little sister and I / not / watch / a movie
6. We / talk / about school
Put in the verb in brackets into the gaps and form affirmative sentences in Past
Progressive.
Toggle example
1) She
2) They
3) It
hockey. (to play)

in the pool. (to swim)
. (to rain)
4) We
to music. (to listen)
5) The mobile
. (to ring)
6) The students
7) Max
8) I
. (to text)
with two girls. (to dance)
in front of the shop. (to wait)
9) The cat
10) He
in the basket. (to sleep)

Gerry's bike. (to repair)
Use the past continuous tense or simple past tense as appropriate.

1
My brother and sister playing tennis at 11am yesterday.
you still working at 7pm last night?
At 8.30am today I driving to work.
We sleeping at 11pm.
Why he having lunch at 4pm?
(meet) John in town yesterday. He
(shop).
Mary
(he/have) a shower when I
10
(wait) for me when I
(arrive).
(call)?
(not/know) what to say he asked that.
The telephone rang we
(watch) TV.
Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses, then
click the "Check" button to check your answers.
1. A: What (you, do)
when the accident occurred?
B: I (try)
to change a light bulb that had burnt out.
2. After I (find)
the wallet full of money, I (go, immediately)
to the police and (turn)

3. The doctor (say)
that he (need)
that Tom (be)
too sick to go to work and
to stay at home for a couple of days.
4. Sebastian (arrive)
not)
it in.
at Susan's house a little before 9:00 PM, but she (be,
there. She (study, at the library)
for her final
examination in French.
5. Sandy is in the living room watching television. At this time yesterday, she (watch,
also)
television. That's all she ever does!
6. A: I (call)
Where were you?
you last night after dinner, but you (be, not)
there.
B: I (work)
out at the fitness center.
7. When I (walk)
into the busy office, the secretary (talk)
the phone with a customer, several clerks (work, busily)

and two managers (discuss, quietly)
on
at their desks,
methods to improve customer
service.
8. I (watch)
a mystery movie on TV when the electricity went out. Now I
am never going to find out how the movie ends.

9. Sharon (be)
in the room when John told me what happened, but she didn't
hear anything because she (listen, not)

10. It's strange that you (call)
.
because I (think, just)
about
you.
11. The Titanic (cross)
the Atlantic when it (strike)
an iceberg.
12. When I entered the bazaar, a couple of merchants (bargain, busily)

and (try)
to sell their goods to naive tourists who (hunt)
for souvenirs. Some young boys (lead)
their donkeys through
the narrow streets on their way home. A couple of men (argue)

price of a leather belt. I (walk)
and (buy)
over the
over to a man who (sell)
fruit
a banana.
13. The firemen (rescue)
the old woman who (be)
trapped on
the third floor of the burning building.

14. She was so annoying! She (leave, always)
her dirty dishes in the
sink. I think she (expect, actually)

15. Samantha (live)
me to do them for her.
in Berlin for more than two years. In fact, she (live)
there when the Berlin Wall came down.

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Put the verbs into the correct form (past progressive).

1. When I phoned my friends, they (play)

2. Yesterday at six I (prepare)

3. The kids (play)

in the garden when it suddenly began to rain.

the guitar when he came home.

6. While Alan (work)

in his room, his friends (swim)

8. What (you / do)

9. Most of the time we (sit)

to the radio while my sister (watch)

11. When I arrived, They (play)

English yesterday at 4:00 pm .

Write correct sentences:

2. My father / watch / a movie

3. My elder sister / writing / in her diary

4. My two brothers / listen / to the radio

5. My little sister and I / not / watch / a movie

6. We / talk / about school

hockey. (to play)

to music. (to listen)

in the basket. (to sleep)

Use the past continuous tense or simple past tense as appropriate.

My brother and sister playing tennis at 11am yesterday.

you still working at 7pm last night?

At 8.30am today I driving to work.

Why he having lunch at 4pm?

(meet) John in town yesterday. He

(he/have) a shower when I

(wait) for me when I

(not/know) what to say he asked that.

The telephone rang we

to change a light bulb that had burnt out.

the wallet full of money, I (go, immediately)

to the police and (turn)

that Tom (be)

too sick to go to work and

to stay at home for a couple of days.

at Susan's house a little before 9:00 PM, but she (be,

there. She (study, at the library)

for her final

you last night after dinner, but you (be, not)

out at the fitness center.

into the busy office, the secretary (talk)

the phone with a customer, several clerks (work, busily)

methods to improve customer

a mystery movie on TV when the electricity went out. Now I

am never going to find out how the movie ends.

hear anything because she (listen, not)

the Atlantic when it (strike)

12. When I entered the bazaar, a couple of merchants (bargain, busily)

their donkeys through

the narrow streets on their way home. A couple of men (argue)

over to a man who (sell)

13. The firemen (rescue)

the old woman who (be)

the third floor of the burning building.

her dirty dishes in the