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Worksheet 13 Past Continuous

Name No. Class

Date / / Evaluation Teacher

A Complete the sentences. Use the Past Continuous.

1. The sun (shine) last Saturday, so we went to the beach.

2. Jennifer and Christina (do) their homework in the bedroom

when I arrived from school.

3. Kim and Brad (wait) in the shopping centre for me.

4. While Kim (talk) to her father on the phone, I prepared lunch.

5. We (read) the newspaper when the police arrived.

6. I (not / watch) television when you phoned me.

7. What (do / you) when the phone rang?

8. Sorry, they (not / listen) to you.

B Complete the text below with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous
of the verbs in brackets.

Last night, while I 1 (study), Jennifer

2 3
(call) me. She (say) she
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(call) me on her cell phone from her PE lesson.
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I (ask) her if she 6 (wait) for class,
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but she (say) that the teacher (be)
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near her while she (talk) to me.
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I (not / can) believe she 11 (make) a
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phone call during the lesson. I asked her what (go)
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on. Jennifer said her PE lessons (be) very flexible.
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Some of the boys (plan) their next game at that
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moment. And it was then, that I (hear) the teacher
yell, “Miss, are you making a phone call?” Suddenly, the line 16 (go) dead
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and so I (hang up) the phone. Later, as I (watch) TV
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the phone rang once again. It (be) Jennifer, but this time she
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(not / sit) in class. She (be) at home, inside her
room. She was grounded for a week, forbidden to go out after school.

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