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VALLE STATE UNIVERSITY EXERCISES ON SIMPLE PAST VS PAST CONTINUOUS

WORKSHOP LEVEL 1 NAMES: ____________________________________________

1. My friends ___________________________________ monopoly (play)


2. Jennifer’s husband ___________________________________ dinner yesterday at six (prepare)
3. It ________________________________ a lot this morning (rain)
4. The students ___________________________________ cards when the teacher _______________________
in the classroom (play/ come)
5. We _________________________________ the guitar with joy last weekend (practice)
6. While John ________________________________ in his room, his pals ______________________________
in the pool (work/swim)
7. I _______________________________ to tell them the true but they _________________________________
(try/ listen-not)
8. The children ____________________________________ all day (cycle-not)
9. What ______________________________________ yesterday? (you-do)
10. The thief _______________________________ into the house, as soon as we _________________________
home (sneak/get)
11. Most of the time we __________________________________ at the park (sit)
12. I ______________________________________ you at school last Monday (see-not)
13. The little girl _________________________________ well (feel-not)
14. The doctor _________________________________ me and ________________________________ anything
wrong (examine/ find-not)
15. ________________________________________ home all day last Sunday? (stay-you)
16. When we ____________________________ a tour, we ___________________________ the car (do/crash)
17. The people _________________________________ to his story carefully in the forest (listen)
18. Jorge __________________________________ off the stairs while he ________________________________
the ceiling (fall/paint)
19. Natalia ___________________________________ pictures of me happily (take)
20. They _________________________________ Diana at the party (see)
21. I ___________________________________ a plate last night (break)
22. While Jose ________________________________ a magazine, Paola _______________________________ a
film on TV (read/watch)
23. When I _______________________________ Freddy, he __________________________________ (call/eat)
24. They ____________________________ tennis when it ___________________________ to rain
(play/begin)
25. While Christian ______________________________ home he _______________________________ a wallet
(walk/find)
26. Kelly _______________________________ the accident as she ______________________________
(see/go)
27. While Alex ___________________________ Lina _____________________________ in the door (eat/walk)
28. Fabian ________________________________ a loud bang while he _________________________________
to his mother (hear/talk)
29. Claudia _____________________________ a beautiful dream when the alarm ________________________
(have/ring)
30. While the students ____________________________ the university campus this morning, the sun
____________________________ (leave/ shine)

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