Practice Number 3
Practice Number 3
1. Put the verbs in the correct form past continuous or simple past.
1. arrived
Jane was waiting (wait) for me when I …………………… (arrive).
2. took
Jhon…………………. looking
(take) a picture of me While I ………………(not look).
3. Didn´t know
We were in a very difficult position. We………………..(not know) what to do.
4. wanted
When I was young. I ………………(want) to be pilot.
5. Did you go
“…………………… (you/go) out last night?”, “No, I was too tired”.
2. Read about them and use the simple past of the verbs to complete their histories.
moved
b. He and his family often……………….. to different places when he
playing
was young. He……………….. got
sport in high school. He…………
started
bad grades. His first big movie …………………. In 1983: Risky
was
Business. He ………………. In the Last Samurai.
3. Choose the correct answer with past simple.
lived
1) My family and I…………………in London when I was young.
a) Lived
b) Live
c) Was live
Wasn´t
3) She didn’t answer the phone? because she ………………. at home.
a) Didn´t
b) Weren´t
c) Wasn´t
did
4) We had a great time and we ……………of fun and exciting things.
a) Did
b) Do
c) Was did
5. Complete this email with either the past simple or the past continuous form of the
verbs in brackets. Where alternatives are possible, think about any difference in
meaning.
bought (buy) a new alarm clocks the other day in Taylor’s the jewelers, when
I (1) _______
did
saw
I actually (2) __________(see) somebody shoplifting. I’d just finished paying for my
turned
clock and as I (3) ___________ (turn) round, an elderly woman slowed
(4) ________
carried
(slowly put) a silver plate into a bag that she (5) ____________ (carry). Then she
(6)walked
_________ (walk) over to another part of the shop and (7) Picked up
_________ (pick up)
thought
an expensive- looking watch a number of times. When she (8) _______(think) that
looked
nobody (9) _________ dropped
(look), she (10) ______________(drop) it into the bag,
had
before I (11) __________ (have) a chance to tell the staff in the shop, she (12)
noticed
________(notice) watched (watch) her and (14) _________
That I (13) ___________ hurried (hurry)
walked
out. Unfortunately for her, two police officers (15) ______________ (walk) past
ran
just at that moment and she (16) __________ (run) straight into them.