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Past Continuous та перевірте свої знання.

1. Поставте дієслова у правильну форму:

1. When she phoned her father, he (watch)   TV.

2. Yesterday at seven my mother (prepare)   dinner.

3. The children (play)   in the garden when it suddenly began to rain.

4. I (practice)   the playing piano when my girlfriend came home.

5. They (not / cycle)   all day.

6. While Mike (work)   at his project, his friends (play)   football.

7. I tried to tell her the truth but she (not / listen )   .

8. What (he/ do)   yesterday at 5 o’clock?

9. Most of the time we (sit)   in the nearest park.

10. I (read)   the book while my brother (watch)   TV.

11. When I arrived, my friends (play)   cards.

12. We (study)   German yesterday at 6:00 pm .

2. Поставте дієслова у правильну форму. Всі речення є стверджувальними, крім одного:

1. My father / read / a book.
2. My mother / watch / a film.
3. My younger sister / write / in her diary.
4. My brother / play / tennis.
5. My little brother and I / not / watch / a movie.
6. We / talk / about university.

1. I (to work) in a bank many years ago

2. He (to live) in Lviv five years ago
3. I (to like) flowers before it happened
4. Tom (to play) the piano yesterday evening
5. I (to love) you many years ago
6. Kristina and Mike (to study) English together last winter
7. You (to enjoy) your last holidays
8. The concert (to finish) at 7 o’clock
9. He (to plan) to go to the party yesterday
10. Ann (to die) when she was 87 years old

Match the beginnings (1-7) with the endings (a-g). Then complete the sentences with the
past simple or past continuous of the verbs in brackets.

1. He ___________ (climb) down the side of a building

2. The sun _________ (shine) brightly

3. The hot water tank _________ (explode)

4. When we _________ (get) to the concert

5. I _________ (not know) that my friends

6. While you _________ (lie) on the beach

7. Last year, Simon _________ (give up) painting

a) while I __________ (have) a shower.

b) the band ___________ (play) my favourite song.

c) when suddenly the rope _________ (break).

d) and __________ (take up) sculpture instead.

e) ___________ (prepare) a surprise party for me.

f) when I __________ (get up) this morning.

g) we ___________ (study) for our exams!

Вправа 4. Вставте Past Simple або Past Continuous

 An amazing display of traditional-style canoes ____ last week in Portland (to open).
 Last month, we ________ the most amazing opportunity to head down to Nashville (to have).
 These ladies__________ an apartment when they ____ both _______ English in Jakarta,
Indonesia (to share, to teach).
 Last year we________ too tired even to make quality home design (to be).
 While the tourists __________ at the beach, animators __________ coffee in the bar (to dance,
to have).
 Last time there ________ a snowfall in in November 2016 (to be).
 A Qatari sheikh ________ more than ?1billion on his art collection last year (to spend).
 The hot-blooded and furious Tybalt ________ a grudge against Romeo (to bear).
 While we __________ to a dive site we __________ the advantages of Utila, the smallest and
most unspoiled of the Bay Islands of Honduras (to boat, to discuss).
 In the late 1600s, the British ________ all non-English ships from trading with colonies (to
forbid).
 We ________ busy building our new country house that year (to be).
 Our friend’s dog __________ us as we__________ around the neighborhood (to follow, to
walk).
 The student __________ up the escalator while it __________ (to run, to move).