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ELP Grammar Test 2b
ELP Grammar Test 2b
1 Change the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
0 For lunch, my mother (eat) ate rice, but my dad (have) had pasta.
1 Sylvia (make) was making her breakfast when the doorbell (ring) saw.
2 The police officer (see) saw the accident when he (drive) was driving to work.
3 When the film (finish) came, my parents (came) came home.
4 My sister (sing) was singing while she (do) was doing her homework.
5 He (walk) walked into the kitchen, then he (sit) sat down.
6 While Luis (tell) was telling a joke, the teacher (walk) walked in.
7 Mr and Mrs Smith (fly) flew to Italy yesterday.
8 Nothing happened when I (switch on) switched on the computer.
9 Joe (run) ran into the room while I (study) was studying.
10 It (begin) began to snow while we (play) were playing
football.
My grandfather (0) A in the same office as me. He (1) B to our house on Sunday
and we (2) C about what it (3) B like in the old days. He (4) C he still
(5) A the names of all his colleagues. One of them still works at the office.
Grandfather (6) B the tea when he started the job, but when he (7) B he was the boss.
As we (8) C , we looked at some photographs of the office in the old days. He said
they (9) B harder then. He thinks things (10) B better in the old days.