INSPIRATION 2

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

I was using my mobile phone

You were listening to music

He was eating a sandwich At 8pm.

She was laughing when you arrived.

We were watching TV

They were 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?
you weren´t listening to music at 8pm __________Were you listening to music at 8pm?____________________________________
______He wasn´t eating a sandwich______ was he eating a sandwich? _______________________________________________
she wasn´t laughing when you arrived____ ______was she laughing when you arrived? __ we weren´t watching tv at 8pm_____were
we watching tv at 8pm?
____they weren´t swimming at 8pm______were they swimming at 8pm?

2 Write questions. 1 No, I wasn´t__________________________________

you / watch him – Were you watching him? 2 Yes, they were
1 you / talk
3 Yes, she was___________________

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was you talking?_ 4 No, we were´t_
2 they / laugh
Yes, he was
_were_they__laughing? ____________________________________________
3 she / take photos
4 Complete the sentences with the past continuous
was_she_taking_photos?
form.
4 you / shop
were_you_shopping? 1 I _was_running___________________ (run) when you
saw me because I was late.
5 he / run
was_he_running? 2 They __were______waiting_____________ (wait) for a
bus when the car crashed.
3 Read the questions you wrote in exercise 2. Then 3 Gabi and Laura __were___dancing________________
complete the answers. (dance) at 8pm.
4 Tomek _______wasn´t_eating_____________ (not / eat)
a sandwich when Ben fell into the river.
5 What __were______doing_____________ Carol and Jack
_____________________ (do) when Pedro phoned?

6 _________was____________ Sally
_________taking____________ (take) a photo when I
phoned?
7 Pedro and Tomek
_____weren´t___laughing_____________ (not / laugh)
when Ben fell in the river.