2. The little girl next to me on the plane was nervous because she ... before.

a. didn’t fly b. hadn’t flown c. wasn’t flying

3. ... many interesting sites on your journey?
a. Did you see b. Were you seeing c. Had you seen?
4. When we unpacked our bags, we realised that we ... to take our travel
1 Choose the correct answer. guide.
a. forgot b. were forgetting c. had forgotten

a. Connor changed his holiday plans because his girlfriend didn’t like / hadn’t
liked skiing. 4 Complete the sentences with the time expressions below.
b. Mum was locked out of the house because Dad took / had taken her
keys.
in 1995 • while • when • at 8.00 pm • yesterday morning
c. Ann went back to her old neighbourhood and found that nothing
changed / had changed.
a. The baby was crying ........................... his mother went into his room.
d. The flight attendant offered me a meal and I accepted / had accepted.
b. ........................... we were playing football, our father was cleaning the
house.
2 Choose the correct answer. c. My mum’s car is very old. She bought it ........................... .
d. It started to rain ........................... , so we went inside and made dinner.
e. .......................... , my best friend went to France on holiday.
a. Where did you buy / were you buying your tent?
b. My brother bought / was buying me a gift while he shopped / was
shopping. 5 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past
c. Why didn’t you sleep / weren’t you sleeping at 3.00 am?
Simple or Past Continuous
d. While the children played / were playing, their parents talked / were
talking.
a. While he ................. (shave) , he .............. (cut) himself.
e. As I walked / was walking to the bus stop, the bus drove / was driving past
b. She .................. (break) her nail while she ................ (clean) the house.
me.
c. While Adam ............... (look) for his keys, he ............... (find) his glasses.
d. Rosa ................ (meet) her boyfriend while she ................. (travel) in India.
3 Choose the correct answer.

1. He ... in the Alps when he suddenly felt ill.

a. climb b. was climbing c. had climbed

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 (play) his drums.
6 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past
d. Mr Brown ........................... (cross) the street when a car ...........................
Perfect Simple. (hit) him.
e. They ........................... (read) the whole travel guide before
a. By the time she reached the airport, she ........................... (miss) the plane. they ........................... (go) on their trip.
b. They ........................... (learn) the play by heart before they performed it on f. Why .................. you ........................... (cry) when I ........................... (see)
the stage. you yesterday?
c. .................. he .................. (go) to sleep by 11 o’clock?
d. The film .................. already .................. (start) before he arrived at the
cinema.
9 Write questions for the answers below. Pay attention to the words

e. How much homework .................. he .................. (finish) when you arrived? in bold.

7 Choose the correct answer. 1.

Victor was visiting a museum while we were eating.
2.
a. They studied / had studied Portuguese for a year before they travelled / Ingrid had bought souvenirs before we arrived.
had travelled to Brazil. 3.
b. My parents decided / had decided to visit India after they saw / had seen Toni was working at the bank when he met Eva.
a documentary about the Taj Mahal. 4.
c. By the time they reached / had reached the station, their train left / had left. Mr Duncan had smoked 20 cigarettes a day before he stopped smoking.
Naturally they were upset. 5.
d. Nick was hungry when the plane landed / had landed at the airport My parents went sightseeing in Paris in the summer.
because he didn’t eat / hadn’t eaten on the flight. 6.
I didn’t wear a jacket because it was warm outside

8 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past

Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.

10 Complete the passage with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past
Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.
a. They ........................... (not finish) packing their suitcase when their
taxi ........................... (arrive). MARCO POLO
b. They ........................... (be) friends for five years before they ...................
(get) married. Niccolo and Matteo Polo were traders from Venice who (1) ...........................
c. Clara ........................... (try) to study while her brother ........................... (go) to China in the 1200s. While Niccolo and Matteo (2) ...........................

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(travel) in China, Niccolo’s son, Marco, was born. After Niccolo’s return to
Venice, he learned that his wife (3) ........................... (die) and that Marco’s
12 Complete the passage with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past

aunt and uncle (4) ........................... (raise) baby Marco. When Marco was Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.
17, his father (5) ........................... (take) him to China where Marco
(6) ........................... (work) for Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, for 17 When Simon .................... 1(arrive) at the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square,
years. In 1298, in a conflict between Venice and Genoa, Marco was captured London, dozens of people ..................... 2(queue) outside. They .....................
and put in jail. While Marco (7) ........................... (wait) in jail for the war to 3(wait) to see Harr y Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Simon,
end, he (8) ........................... (tell) another prisoner about all that he however, ....................... 4(buy) the ticket in advance, so he ...................... 5
(9) ........................... (see) in China. The prisoner wrote it down and Marco (walk) straight to the front of the queue and ...................... 6(enter) the
(10) ........................... (become) famous. cinema. He ..................... 7(feel) relieved that he didn’t have to queue.
He ....................... 8(reach) his seat just as the lights ... 9(go down) for the
start of the film.
11 Complete the passage with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past
Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.
13 Complete the passage with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past

Some people won’t drive without their GPS navigational systems, but some Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple.
people find this device is ruining their lives. Last month a lorry driver from
Slovakia (1) ........................... (get) his truck stuck while he Last weekend, Cathy ..................... 1(hire) a car and ...................... 2(drive) to
(2) ........................... (drive) on a small country road in Britain. The driver, who York. When she .................... 3(arrive) the wind ...................... 4(blow) and the
(3) ........................... (arrive) in Britain only a few hours before, sky ..................... 5(be) cloudy. She ..................... 6(get out) of the car
(4) ........................... (not speak) English and (5) ........................... (become) and ..................... 7(take) a walk through the city center. Then
very upset. This was not surprising because he (6) ........................... (knock) she ........................ 8(decide) to have lunch at a nearby restaurant that she ...
down an electricity pole just minutes before. Similarly, a large lorry 9(see) earlier. By the time she ...................... 10(leave) the restaurant,
(7) ........................... (break) Dorothea Blake’s front gate while it it ....................... 11(already/grow) dark. As she .......................... 12(walk) to
(8) ........................... (travel) through her small British village, Ripon. Both her car it ..........................13(begin) to rain. However, Cathy .........................
these accidents (9) ........................... (happen) because the lorry drivers 14(not mind) because she ........................ (have) a wonderful day.
(10) ........................... (not watch) where they were going. They
(11) ........................... (use) their GPS navigational systems instead.
14 Complete the text with the correct forms of the verbs
Last week I ............... 1(be) alone at home. I ............... 2(do) my English
homework so I was really concentrating. Everything was very quiet.
I ............... 3(write) an essay about ghosts whe suddenly I ............... 4(hear) a
loud noise from the kitchen. I ............... 5(go) to check – the window was

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open! I ............... 6(feel) scared. We ............... 7(live) on the ground floor so As he ...................... 5 (walk) past some ancient and very valuable Chinese
anybody could get in through the window. I had just got up to investigate vases, he ....................... 6(trip) and .................... 7(fall). The museum staff
when my mobile ............... 8(start) ringing. It was my parents. They were who ..................... 8 (rush) to help him ..................... 9 (discover) that
phoning me to say that they .............. 9(forget) to close the windows before he ..................... 10 (break) three vases into hundreds of small pieces. After
leaving for the cinema and wanted me to close everything because a the incident, the director of the museum ..................... 11 (send) Mr Flynn a
storm .............. 10(come)! letter. He made it clear that he ..................... 12 (not want) him to visit the
museum again. The director obviously thought that Flynn was responsible for
the accident. However, when other people ..................... 13 (hear) about the
15 Complete the text with the correct form of the bold verbs. Use
incident, many wondered why the museum ..................... 14 (not take) better
the Past Simple or Past Continuous care of such valuable vases.

I first ............... 1(meet) my boyfriend James two years ago when I was
sixteen. My friends and I .................... 2 (wait) in a queue to see my favourite
band, Coldplay. He ............... 3(stand) behind me in the queue. He ...............
4(ask) me for the time but after that we ............... 5(not say) much.
We ............... 6(go) into the concert and he was on the other side of the room
to us.

During the concert, every time I ............... 7(look) in his direction, I ........... 8
(notice) that he ............... 9(watch) me. At the end of the concert,
1 a. didn’t like b. had taken c. had changed d. accepted

he ............... 10(come) up to me and asked for my phone number. 2 a. did you buy b. bought / was shopping c. weren’t you sleeping
He ............... 11(seem) like a nice boy so I ............... 12 (give) it to him.
d. were playing / were talking e. was walking / drove
He ............... 12(ring) me the next day and, well, you know the rest of the
story. 3 1a 2b 3a 4c

16 Complete the pasaje with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past
4 a. when b. while c. in 1995 d. at 8 p.m. e. yesterday morning

Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple. 5

a. was shaving, cut
When Nick Flynn ..................... 1(go) to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge b. broke, was cleaning
in 2006, the results ..................... 2 (be) disastrous. Mr Flynn, c. was looking, found
who ...................... 3 (visit) the museum several times before, ....................... d. met, was travelling
4 (have) a very unfortunate accident.

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a. had missed 1. got 2. was driving 3. had arrived 4. didn’t speak 5. became
b. had learnt 6. had knocked down 7. broke 8. was travelling 9. happened 10. hadn’t
c. had ... gone been/weren’t watching 11. had been/were using
d. had ... started
e. had ... finished
12
1. arrived 2. were queueing 3. were waiting 4. had bought 5. walked
7 6. entered 7. Felt 8. reached 9. were going down
a. had studied, travelled
b. decided, had seen
13
c. reached, had left 1. hired 2. drove 3. Arrived 4. was blowing 5. was 6. got out
d. landed, hadn’t eaten 7. took 8. decided 9. had seen 10. left 11. had already grown
12. Was walking 13. Began 14. Did not mind 15. Had had
8
a. hadn’t finished, arrived
14
b. had been, got 1. Was 2. Was doing 3. Was writing 4. Heard 5. Went 6. Felt
c. was trying, was playing 7. Live 8. Started 9. had forgotten 10. Was coming
d. was crossing, hit 15
e. had read, went
f. were ... crying, saw 1. met 2. were waiting 3. was standing 4. asked 5. didn’t say 6. went
7. looked 8. noticed 9. was watching 10. came 11. seemed 12.
9 gave 13. rang
1. What was Victor doing while you / we were eating?
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2. Who had bought souvenirs before you / we arrived?
1. went 2. were 3. had visited 4. had 5. was walking 6. tripped
3. Where was Toni working when he met Eva?
4. How many cigarettes had Mr Duncan smoked per day before he stopped 7. fell 8. rushed 9. discovered 10. had broken 11. sent
12. didn’t want 13. heard 14. had not taken
smoking?
5. When did your parents go sightseeing in Paris?
6. Why didn’t you wear a jacket?

10
1. went 2. were travelling 3. had died 4. had raised 5. took 6. raised
7. was waiting 8. told 9. had seen 10. became

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