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NEW INSPIRATION 2

Unit 3  Worksheet 2
Past continuous

1 Complete the chart with the correct past form of be.

I was using my mobile phone

You listening to music

He laughing
at 8pm.
She eating a sandwich

We watching TV

They playing computer games

Now make the sentences negative. Now make questions.

I wasn’t using my mobile phone at 8pm. Were you using your mobile phone at 8pm? 






2 Write questions using the prompts. 4 Complete the sentences with the
past continuous form of the verbs
you / watch him. in brackets.
Were you watching him?
1 Gerrit (walk) to school
1 you / talk

when he saw a ball of light in the sky.

2 They (wait) for a bus
2 they / laugh

when the car crashed.

3 Leyla and Emma (dance)
3 she / take photos

at 8pm.

4 Ann Hodges (not / feel
4 you / do

well) when a rock crashed through the roof of her

house.
5 he / walk to school

5 What Lee and his friend

(do) when the weather got
worse?
6 Lee
3 Complete the answers to the
(use) his phone when
questions in exercise 2.
the boat hit the rock?
1 No, I
7 Lee and his friend (not
2 Yes, they
laugh) after their boat sank.
3 Yes, she
4 No, we

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