Past tenses exercises

1. Wstaw podane w nawiasach czasowniki w czasie Past Simple lub Past Continuous. A. Beethoven (write) nine symphonies; he ( write) another symphony when he died. B. Last Saturday Tom (want) to make two salads. He (make) the first one in five minutes. He (make) the second one when his guests (arrive), and they (help) him to finish it. C. The artist Gaudi (design) several houses in Barcelona, Spain. Later he (start) work on a church. He ( work) on the church when he (die). D. Last month a bank robber (escape) while the police (take) him to prison. Later they (catch) him again, and this time they (lock) him up without any problem. E. F. Philip's football team (be) lucky last Saturday. After twenty minutes they (lose), but in the end they (win) the game by four goals to two. John Lennon (sing) and (play) on many records with the Beatles. After that he (record) several songs without the Beatles. He (prepare) a new record when Mark Chapman (shoot) him in New York in 1980.

G. The evening .. (get) darker; the street lights .... (come) on. People (hurry) home after work. I (stand) in a queue at the bus stop. Suddenly somebody (grab) my bag. 2. Mary Croft rozmawia z policjantk o tym, jak spdzia pitkowy wieczr. Przy pomocy ilustracji uzupenij ponisz rozmow. Uyj czasu Past Simple lub Past Continuous. Policewoman: Mary: Policewoman: Mary: Policewoman: Mary: Policewoman: Mary: Policewoman: Mary: What time (you/get) home from work? At about six o'clock. And what (you/do) after you got home? I read the newspaper. Did anything happen while (read) the paper? Yes, the phone (ring). What (you/do) when your husband came home? I was watching TV, and I (drink) a cup of coffee. (you and your husband/stay) at home? No, I . (drink) my coffee. Then I (put) on my raincoat, and we (go) out at seven o'clock. Why (you/put) your raincoat on? Because it .. (rain), of course.

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by Maciej Okuniewski

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Wstaw podane w nawiasach czasowniki w czasie Past Simple lub Past Continuous. W parach napiszcie cig dalszy opowiadania. Dugod tekstu powinna wynosid 200 250 sw.
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was a stormy night. Emily .. (sit) Italone in total darkness of the huge gloomy ballroom of the bleak Everdale Mansion in Yorkshire. Only rare flashes of lightning ...2 (light) up the emptiness of the room and the sound of thunder .....3 (echo) throughout the enormous house. She was all alone. They had all gone to the ball at the Dukes Palace and left her in this haunted place. Emily ...4 (shiver). She .5 (try) to go to sleep but the persistent feeling of a presence ..6 (not let)her close her eyes. Suddenly she ..7 (think) she ............8 (hear) a very quiet voice, almost not to be heard. Even more terrified now, she 9 (push) herself deeper in the corner she was .10 (sit) in. She ..11 (listen) very carefully now will the voice speak again, or .12 (be)it only her imagination? After all she had never liked the house. There was complete silence. Even the storm outside .. 13 (not be) as violent as before, although it 14 (still, rain) heavily. Im going to be fine, Emily vigorously ..15 (say) to herself. At that moment a massive lightning ...16 (strike the chimneys of Everdale and, for a fraction of a second, the room 17 (become) as bright as if it was daytime. It was long enough, though, to notice an old man at the other side of the room, near the fireplace, who ..18 (look) at Emily with a sinister smile. He ..19 (hold) a strange long whip in one hand and a gigantic butchers knife in the other one. Emily ....20 (faint). Seconds later she
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(come) round only to see two red eyes staring at her from the

opposite side of the room. At that moment the fireplace 22 (burst)into flames and the same little girls voice ...23 (speak) softly in her ear, Beware! Emily .24 (scream). She quickly 25 (run) out of the ballroom and as she 26 (run) through the hall and into the kitchen- she .27 (can) hear that somebody .28 (chase) her. Finally, she .29 (reach) the front door and frantically ....30 (try) to open it. The

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by Maciej Okuniewski