PAST SIMPLE VS.
PAST CONTINUOUS GAME
Take it in turns to roll the dice and move your pieces. Use the prompts in the square you land on to make sentences. Use THE PAST SIMPLE or THE PAST
CONTINUOUS TENSE. In most cases you will need to add when/while to join the clauses e.g.: I (have) a bath the postman (knock) at the door → I was
having a bath when the postman knocked at the door.
START
5 6
John (meet) his future wife he
(stay) with his cousin in Rome.
10
Grandma (fall) in love with
grandpa they both (study) at
Cambridge university.
15
How fast (you drive) the
patrol car (stop) you?
20
They (fly) over the Atlantic
suddenly both engines (stop)
working.
25
I’m sorry I (not can) take
your call last night. I (have) a
bath.
30
He (drive) I (call) him so we
(not talk) for long.
35
She (read) a most absorbing
book on Saturday morning her
boss (call) and (tell) her to come
to work at once.
40
The children (make) a cake I
(get) back home yesterday.
The kitchen was a total
mess.
45
I (start) crying we (say)
goodbye.
1 2 3 4
What (you do) on May 7th She almost (set) the house GO TO
I (walk) with my dog I (bump) between 9 pm and midnight, sir? on fire she (try) to cook the SQUARE
into my old schoolmate. I’m sorry, officer, but I can’t first meal for her new 23
remember. It was so long ago…
husband.
7 8 9
She (walk) in on her GO TO I’m sorry, teacher I (not Anna (watch) her favourite
boyfriend he (kiss) another SQUARE listen). Can you repeat the TV show her mom (call) and
girl. 19 instruction, please? (talk) for 50 minutes.
11 12 13 14
GO TO Mike (try) to revise for his I (hear) a noise so I (go) What (you do) last night I (call)?
SQUARE history test but mom (send) downstairs to see what (go) on. You (not answer) your cell phone
28 him on some errands. There (be) a stranger in the and (you not) call me back…
kitchen. He (help) himself to my
dinner leftovers.
16 17 18 19
What’s happened to your arm, I (not pay) attention to what the It was horrible. My little sister
Sam? Is it broken? teacher (say) and that (be) a big GO TO (choke) on a candy. She (not
Yeah, I (break) it last week we mistake. She (catch) me texting SQUARE can) breathe and for a moment I
(play) rugby at school. my girlfriend under the table. (not know) what to do.
17
21 22 23 24
GO TO Jack and Jill (relax) on the How was your trip to London? I (fall) off a ladder I (paint) the
SQUARE beach in Malaysia they (see) It (rain) all day but we (have) a walls in my room. I (land) on my
23 a plane ditching nearby. great time. backside and (bruise) my ego.
26 27 28 29
The fire (start) late in the She (be) late for a meeting so GO TO I (enter) the classroom the
evening. We (see) the flames in she (drive) pretty fast suddenly a SQUARE students (complain) about
our neighbour’s window we man (run) into the road in front 25 the teacher.
(have) dinner in the kitchen. of her car.
31 32 33 24
GO TO It (pour) down with rain this She (have) a fight with her I (not know) what they (talk)
SQUARE morning I (leave) for work. husband his parents (decide) about so I (decide) to
15 to pay them a surprise visit. keep quiet.
36 37 38 39
I (call) you five times yesterday My girlfriend (cry) I (get) back
She (burn) her hand she GO TO morning. Why (you not answer) home last night. I (want) to cheer
(make) an omelet. SQUARE 30 the phone? her up so I (take) her out
I (clean) the house. I (not hear) shopping.
a thing.
41 42 43 44
GO TO GO I (listen) to music and (relax)
SQUARE She (just think) about him he TO FINISH one of my neighbours (start)
20 (call). drilling holes in the wall.
46 47 48
GO TO
Steve (get) seriously sick Matt (propose) to his girlfriend in SQUARE
right after he (be) born. a fancy restaurant they suddenly 38
FINISH
(hear) an explosion.
GLOSSARY

 SEND SOMEBODY ON AN ERRAND …………………………………………………………………………………………….

 BUMP INTO SOMEBODY …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 SCHOOLMATE …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 SET ON FIRE …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 WALK IN ON SOMEBODY …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 HELP YOURSELF TO SOMETHING …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 LEFTOVERS …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 A PATROL CAR …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 PAY ATTENTION TO SOMETHING …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 TEXT SOMEBODY .……………………………………………………………………………………………
 CHOKE ON SOMETHING …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 DITCH (about a plane) = emergency landing in the sea …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 BACKSIDE …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 BRUISE (V/N) …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 COMPLAIN …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 CHEER SOMEBODY UP …………………………………………………………………………………………….
 DRILL (V) …………………………………………………………………………………………….