Practice Exercises
1. Complete the sentences with the correct form of past simple or past continuous.
1. While Jeremy
(walk) to school he found some money.
2. It was raining when we
(arrive) at the beach.
3. While he
(do) the washing up the phone rang.
4. When Philip arrived home, Helen
(clean) the windows
5. Ben
(go) to bed when he finished his homework.
6. Mike
(ride) to school when he got a puncture.
2. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1. We
(sit) in the park when it
(start) to
rain. .
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(play)
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2. My mum
(bake) a cake when my dad
(arrive) home.
3. Where
(go) when I
(see) you
yesterday?
4. When!
(arrive) at the party Laura
(leave).
5. While !
(send) an email the computer
(crash).
6. They
(drive) to Scotland when the accident
(happen).
3.Complete the text with past simple or past continuous.
Yesterday afternoon I was walking through the park when I (1). (find) a little
black dog on a lead. 1 (2)
(decide) to call the police. While
(3)
(call) the police, a man (4)
(come) into the park.
He (5)
(run) and (6)
(shout) "Harry! Harry!". When I
(7)
(finish) my phone call I (8)
(walk) towards the
men with the dog. I (9)
(ask) him "Is this Harry?" and he (10)
(reply) "Yes! Yes, that's Harry! Oh, thank you!". He was very happy.