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    The document provides examples and exercises for practicing using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It includes sentences to complete with the correct past tense verb, questions to formulate about underlined parts of sentences, sentences to make negative, and word orders to rearrange. The exercises allow learners to practice distinguishing between and applying the past simple for completed actions and the past continuous for ongoing actions in the past.

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    Past Simple-Past Continuous

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    The document provides examples and exercises for practicing using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It includes sentences to complete with the correct past tense verb, questions to formulate about underlined parts of sentences, sentences to make negative, and word orders to rearrange. The exercises allow learners to practice distinguishing between and applying the past simple for completed actions and the past continuous for ongoing actions in the past.

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    The document provides examples and exercises for practicing using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It includes sentences to complete with the correct past tense verb, questions to formulate about underlined parts of sentences, sentences to make negative, and word orders to rearrange. The exercises allow learners to practice distinguishing between and applying the past simple for completed actions and the past continuous for ongoing actions in the past.

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    Past Simple-Past Continuous

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    The document provides examples and exercises for practicing using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It includes sentences to complete with the correct past tense verb, questions to formulate about underlined parts of sentences, sentences to make negative, and word orders to rearrange. The exercises allow learners to practice distinguishing between and applying the past simple for completed actions and the past continuous for ongoing actions in the past.

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    Past Tenses 

    I. Complete the text with either the past simple or the past continuous form of the verb.

    I _____________ (buy) a new alarm clock one day in Twinkle’s, when I _____________
    (see) somebody shoplifting. I’d just finished paying for my clock as I _____________ (turn)
    round, an elderly woman _____________ (slowly put) a silver ashtray into her bag that she
    _____________ (carry). Then she _____________ (walk) over to another part of the shop
    and _____________ (pick up) an expensive-looking bracelet many times. When she
    _____________ (think) that nobody _____________ (look), she _____________ (drop) it
    into the bag. Before I _____________ (have) a chance to tell the staff in the shop, she
    _____________(notice) that I _____________ (watch) her and _____________ (hurry) out.
    Unfortunately for her, two policemen _____________ (walk) past at that moment and she
    _____________ (run) straight into them.

    II. Put the verbs into the past simple or the past continuous form.

    1.    He _____________ (sit) on the bank fishing, when he _____________ (see) a man’s hat
    floating down the river. It _____________ (seem) rather worn.
    2.    It _____________(rain) when we _____________ (drive) home. I
    _____________(remember) closing the windows, so I _____________(not worry).
    3.    As the goalkeeper _____________ (throw) the ball to the defender a sparrow
    _____________ (fly) across the pitch and it _____________ (hit) the poor bird.
    4.    A history lesson _____________ (go) on. I _____________ (glance) at the teacher who
    _____________ (draw) something on the blackboard.
    5.    The waiting room was full of people. Some _____________(read) others
    _____________ (sleep). When the doctor _____________ (arrive) I _____________ (stop)
    doing my crosswords.
    6.    The train _____________ (start) when the door _____________ (open) and two men
    _____________ (leap) in.
    7.    Most of us _____________ (listen) to the lecturer but some students _____________
    (whisper) to each other. One of the boys _____________ (close) his eyes and
    _____________ (fall) asleep).
    8.    While I _____________ (wonder) wether to buy that scarf a woman _____________
    (come) and _____________ (buy) it.

    V.    Make the following sentences negative.

    a.    He washed his car yesterday.


    b.    The film was worse than I expected.
    c.    I arrived before the end of the show.
    d.    She threw the ball into the goal.
    e.    Two people were sitting in the room
    f.    She was making breakfast.

    VI.    Write questions for the underlined parts.

    a.    He stopped the train when he saw the cow.


    b.    I borrowed my brother’s bike.
    c.    John bought the tickets.
    d.    They went to Stockholm.
    e.    There were four chairs around the table.
    f.    A man was standing next to the window.
    g.    It cost a lot of money.
    h.    We were waiting for the bus that time.
    i.    My grandfather smoked ten cigarettes a day.

    VIII.    Put the words into the correct order.

    a.    in I a when I Manchester worked lived in shop.


    b.    our to we them invited party.
    c.    yesterday at Tom work was ?
    d.    that enough have to I didn’t money buy ring.
    e.    the I very film enjoyed much.

    IX.    Decide whether the parts in bold are in the correct tense.
    a.    Leopold was falling off the ladder while he was painting the ceiling.
    b.    Wendy was waiting for me when I arrived.
    c.    We didn’t go fishing because it rained.
    d.    I was seeing  Scott in the park. He was sitting on the grass and he read a book.
    e.    This time last year I had holiday on Bali.
    f.    When I was getting up the TV was on.

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