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Past Simple Vs Past Continuous

The document provides examples to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in sentences. It includes 15 sentences where the reader must fill in verbs in their appropriate past tense form. It also includes a short paragraph story where the reader must fill in verbs in their simple present, present progressive, or simple past tense as appropriate. The document is a grammar exercise to help practice and understand using different past tenses in sentences.

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Past Simple Vs Past Continuous

The document provides examples to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in sentences. It includes 15 sentences where the reader must fill in verbs in their appropriate past tense form. It also includes a short paragraph story where the reader must fill in verbs in their simple present, present progressive, or simple past tense as appropriate. The document is a grammar exercise to help practice and understand using different past tenses in sentences.

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PAST SIMPLE / PAST CONTINUOUS

I. Complete the sentences with the past simple or progressive.

1. When I ……………………….. to school, I ………………. John. (walk/see)


2. When I ……………………… in the kitchen, Mary ……………………. (help/come)
3. While she ……………………… the soup, the children …………………... (cook/play)
4. While they …………………………… cards, the baby ………………………………... (play/sleep)
5. When I ……………………………………. in the garden, my uncle ……………………….. (work/call)
6. Carol …………………………. TV while Bob and Peter …………………… football. (watch/play)
7. When she …………………………. her hair, the baby ………………….. to cry. (wash/begin)
8. A strong wind ……………………………. when the plane …………………….. (blow/land)
9. When she ………………………… tennis, it …………………… to rain. (play/began)
10. When I ………………………. TV, the lights …………………………….. out. (watch/go)
11. While he …………………………. the piano, she………………………… to him. (play/listen)
12. While she ……………………………. up her room, he………………. his car. (tidy/wash)
13. The boys …………………………… in the garden while she ……………………….. the flowers. (help/water)
14. He …………………………. Mary when he ……………………… through the park. (meet/walk)
15. We ……………………………. computer games while she ………………………… a book. (play/read)

II. Simple present – present progressive – simple past ? Fill in the correct tense.

Every summer our class ………………… (go) on a short trip. Last year we ………………….(go) to a zoo. Our
teacher ………………………(be) very nervous. Teachers ………………………..(be) often nervous on a school
trip. But why? We ………………………..(not understand) that. I ………………………..(take) lots of photos of a
baby elephant with my cell phone. "Why …………………………….. you ………………(not take) photos of
other animals, too?" my friend ……………….(ask) me. But I ………………………………..(not want) to take
photos of other animals. I ………………………….(want) to take photos of all my friends. They
………………….(have) some bananas and ………………………(show) them to the gorillas. "What ……….
you ……………………. (do) there? Come to me!" our teacher ……………….(shout). We ……………….(find) a
nice place for a picnic. But nobody ……………………….(eat) a banana, but the gorillas …………….(have) a
nice lunch that day. It ………………………(be) a great day at the zoo, and we ……………………………(have) a
lot of fun.

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