Exercises on Past Continuous and Simple Past.

EXERCISE A A group of people were staying in a hotel. One evening the fire alarm went off. Use the words in parentheses to make sentences saying what each person was doing at the time.
Example:   (Michael / take / a bath)   Michael was taking a bath.

1.	(Ann / write / a letter in her room) Ann  .
2.	(George / get / ready to go out) George  .
3.	(Carol and Dennis / have / dinner) Carol and Dennis  .
4.	(Tom / make / a phone call) Tom  .

EXERCISE B Make sentences from the words in parentheses. Put the verbs into the correct form: SIMPLE PAST or PAST CONTINUOUS.

Example:  (I / fall / asleep when I / watch / TV).   I fell asleep when I was watching TV.


1.(the phone / ring / while I / take a shower)

The phone  .

2.

(it / begin / to rain while I / walk / home)
.

3.(we / see / an accident while we / wait / for the bus)

EXERCISE C

Put the verb into the correct form: PAST CONTINUOUS or SIMPLE PAST.

Example:  While Tom was cooking (cook) dinner, the phone rang (ring).

1.	George   (fall) off the ladder while he   (paint) the ceiling.
2.	Last night I   (read) in the bed when suddenly I  (hear) a scream.
3.	(you/watch) TV when I called you?
4.	Ann   (wait) for me when I   (arrive).
5.	I   (not/drive) very fast when the accident  (happened).
6.	I   (break) a plate last night. I   (wash) the dishes when it   (slip) out of my hand.
7.	Tom   (take) a picture of me while I   (not/look).
8.	We   (not/go) out because it   (rain).
9.	What   (you/do) at this time yesterday?
10.	I   (see) Carol at the party. She   (wear) a new dress.

Links:

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/tiemposverbales/unit12.htm

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=734