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How to form Past Continuous:

• I was sitting by the door.
• You were laughing.
• He/she was driving.
• We were crying.
• They were eating.

Questions:

• Was I sleeping?
• Were you waiting?
• Was he/she driving?

Negatives:

• I wasn't listening.
• They weren't looking.

When we use Past Continuous.

Task 1.

Match the sentences and the situations.

1. They were living in England at the time.
2. He was driving down the motorway when he passed a young woman.
3. Some people were dancing while others were listening to music.
4. The sun was shining and everyone w^ras having a good time.

1. simultaneous continuous actions in the past
2. temporary actions or situations in the past
3. background information about the weather, what people were doing or wearing
4. an action in progress in the past which is interrupted by another action.

Task 2.

Complete the sentences with while and when.

1. A burglar broke into the house......we were watching television.
2. What were you.......the police officer knocked on the door.
3. ........Dick was preparing lunch, he cut his finger badly.
4. Jeff was studying to be a doctor.....He met Sally.

Task 3.

Make sentences with when, while, so, as, because

Task 4.

Make sentences.

1. Angela / drive to work / mobile phone / ring.
2. Ann and Frank / walk down the street / Ann / offer / Frank / a new job.
3. Lawrence / run / to work / fall and break / his ankle.
4. Victor / sit / at his desk / remember / it / be / his wife's birthday.
5. Robert / leave / the office / Miss Chen / remind him / of an important meeting.
6. John / have / his break / Robert / tell him / the terrible news.

Task 5. Put the verb in the correct form

Charles Lindbergh.........as a pilot for the Chicago St. Louis airline

...................WORK

Company when he.........the first non-stop flight around the world

..................MAKE

in 1927.

Alexander Fleming............penicillin by accident while he

.................DISCOVER

..........at St. Mary's Hospital in London.

.................WORK

Ernest Hemingway.............many of his ideas for For Whom The Bell

.................GET

Tolls while he............in Spain during The Spanish Civil War.

.................LIVE

Task 6.

Look at the map of a cycling accident. Complete the answers with the correct form of the following verbs.

Drive (*2), ride, look (*2), turn, speak, paint, work, watch.

A: What was Daren doing when the accident happened?
B: He 1.......his bike along Chestnut Road and he 2.......right into Willow Drive.
A: How fast was Mike going?
B: I don't know, but he 3........not........very fast.
A: What was Cathy doing when the accident happened?
B: She 4......south along Chestnut Road. She 5........The car overtaking the cyclist.
A: Did Sue and Dave see the accident?
B: No, because they 6.......not.......at the road. Sue 7...........in the garden and Dave 8.........the fence.
A: Did Carol see the accident?
B: Yes. She 9........at the road while she 10..........on the phone in the call box on the corner of Poplar Avenue and Chestnut Road.

Task 7.

Sue Barnes is a young Scottish music journalist on her first visit to California. Look at the travel notes below for the last day of her visit. In pairs ask and say what Sue was doing at the following times:

1. 8.00
2. 10.00
3. 12.00
4. 1.30 p.m.
5. 3.00 p.m.
6. 9.00 p.m.

EXAMPLE

A: What was Sue doing at eight o'clock?
B: She was having breakfast at NBC studio.

TRAVEL SCHEDULE – Thursday

Task 8.

Listen to the scenes and write what happened.

1. It was a Sunday afternoon in the park. The birds......, the children..........., and some people..........Suddenly it...........to rain, and everybody.........into the park cafe.
2. Mr and Mrs Williams........television when the doorbell..........Mrs Williams..........to answer it but when she............the door, there..........no-one there.
3. It was three o'clock in the morning and Mark.......Suddenly, there.......a crash and he.........The people next door............Then one of them.............a plate across the room. The other one.......and then it....... quiet.

Task 9.

Choose the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use Past Simple or Past Continuous.

1. As I (do) my homework last night, I (hear) a strange noise which (come) from the garden. I (go) out to see what (happen), only to find my cat chasing a rat.
2. In 1972 Tim Carlisle (see) Elvis in concert while he was (travel) in the USA.
3. It (snow) heavily on that cold dark night when George Bailey (leave) his office and (begin) his journey home.
4. She (tidy) her room when suddenly the lights (go) out.
5. Jasper (sleep) and his father (watch) TV when the earthquake (strike).
6. As Mary (feed) the duck a small boy (rush) up to her and (grab) her arm.
7. He (be) unable to sleep because the wind (whistle) through the trees in the forest outside.
8. I (come) across Anna as I (walk) through the park with my dog.
9. Sharon (not/see) the car coming towards her because she (look) in the other direction.
10. The old lady (get) onto the bus when she (fall) and (break) her leg.

Task 10.

Some of these sentences contain mistakes. Correct the mistakes.

1. When I was getting to school every one was doing a test.
2. We didn't go out that night because it was snowing heavily.
3. I watched my favourite programme when the storm began.
4. The teacher was not being there so everyone was sitting around chatting.
5. It was raining when the doctor set out to visit her patient.
6. Mark rode his bike up a hill when he was seeing his friend walking along the road.

Test

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