INSPIRA TION 2

Worksheet 2

Past continuous
1 Complete the table with the correct past form of be.

I was using my mobile phone

You listening to music
He eating a sandwich at 8pm.
She laughing when you arrived.
We watching TV
They swimming

Now make the sentences negative. Now make questions.

I wasn’t using my mobile phone at 8pm. Was I using my mobile phone at 8pm?

2 Write questions.
4 Complete the sentences with the past
you / watch him – Were you watching him? continuous form.
1 you / talk
1 I (run) when you saw me
2 they / laugh because I was late.
2 They (wait) for a bus when
3 she / take photos the car crashed.
3 Gabi and Laura (dance) at
4 you / shop 8pm.

5 he / run 4 Tomek (not / eat) a

sandwich when Ben fell into the river.
5 What Carol and Jack
3 Read the questions you wrote in exercise 2. (do) when Pedro phoned?
Then complete the answers. 6 Sally
1 No, I (take) a photo when I phoned?
2 Yes, they 7 Pedro and Tomek (not /
3 Yes, she laugh) when Ben fell in the river.
4 No, we
5 Yes, he

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