Further practice
Apart from the solved exercises you have seen throughout topic 3, here you have some more in order to improve your knowledge of English grammar and to gain practice with them.
Ejercicio Resuelto
Past Continuous Tense
Decide whether to use was or were.
1) Paco _____ visiting London yesterday.
2) They _____ swimming in the lake.
3) Your father _____ repairing the car.
4) I _____ reading a magazine while you _____ listening to the radio.
5) My friends _____ watching the match on TV.
6) It _____ raining the whole morning.
7) The dog _____ barking all night.
8) The children _____ brushing their teeth.
9) Alex and Andrés _____ playing a tennis match.
10) My friend _____ singing a beautiful song when I entered.
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Past Continuous: affirmative form
Write positive sentences in the Past Progressive.
1) Paco / walk / around/ Hyde Park
2) Alex and Andrés / play tennis / last weekend
3) Sonia / help / his brother / with English
4) I / wait / at the bus stop / for you
5) My sister / feed / the birds / when I saw her
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Past continuous: negative form
Write negative sentences in past progressive.
1) Andrés and Alex / not play / golf / at weekend
2) My sister / not have lunch / when I got home
3) Paco / not visit / the British Museum / when it started to rain
4) Isabel / not wait / for a phone call / from London
5) My grandparents / not watch / TV / so late
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Past Simple vs Past Continuous
Put the verbs into the correct tense: Past Simple or Past Continuous
1) The car (break) __________ down when we (drive) __________ home.
2) While some of us (prepare) __________ dinner, the others (collect) __________ wood for the campfire.
3) Paco (turn) __________ off the lights and (go) __________ to bed.
4) My mother (come) __________ in, (look) __________ around and (tell) __________ me to tidy up my room.
5) The children (play)__________ in the garden while their parents (have) __________ breakfast.
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Past Simple vs Past Continuous
Say which of the sentences of the previous exercise correspond with the following patterns:
1) one action takes place after another
2) one action takes place at the same time that another
3) one action interrupts another
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Past endings pronunciation
Place the following 15 verbs according to their past ending pronunciation in /d/, /t/ and /id/.
stayed, practiced, rested, laughed, fixed, lived, decided, needed
danced, visited, remembered, stopped, wanted, cleaned, studied