SIMPLE PAST or PAST CONTINUOUS

NAME: CLASS: Date:

PART 1 Popsy is telling about her unlucky day. Fill in the blanks (1- 23) with the
Simple Past or Past Continuous.

Last Monday 1-____________(be) a very bad day. I 2-

___________ (wake up) too late and 3-______________
(miss) my schoolbus. Mum had to take me to school. While we
4-____________ (be) on the way to school, we 5-__________
(see) a terrible car accident. There 6-___________ (be) a
traffic jam. Everybody 7-____________ (wait) in a long queue.
Therefore,I _________ (get) to school very late. Then I 8-
__________ (have) a Maths test. While I 9-___________
(do) the questions, my classmate 10-____________ (ask) me a
question. The teacher thought we 11-__________ (cheat).
After class we had to stay and explain everything. Things went
even worse. While I 12-___________ (wait) for the bus home,
I 13-____________(realize) that I had lost my money
so I had to walk home.When I 14-__________ (get) home, my
parents 15-___________ (wait) for me and they
16-__________ (be) very worried. I had to stay home alone,
because my parents went out for dinner with their friends. I
17- ___________ (put) my dinner in the oven and 18-____
(go) to watch TV. While I 19-___________ (watch) a film, I
20-__________ (fall) asleep.
When I 21-____________ (wake up) an hour later, there was a
Did you ever have such
terrible smoke and smell coming from the kitchen. My chicken
an unlucky day? Can you
had burnt and was black!! I 22-__________(not/want) to eat
write about it?
anymore, so I 23- _______(go) to bed to sleep.
(Use the simple past and
past cont. tenses)

PART 2 MY UNLUCKY DAY

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PART 3 Popsy went to sleep but her unlucky day hadn’t come to an end yet. She saw a
terrible dream that night. Can you describe Popsy’s dream as you see it in the pictures.
Use the simple past and the past continuous.

POPSY’S NIGHTMARE

Popsy saw a terrible dream. In her dream.....

”Help, help” she screamed. That was the moment when she woke up and saw her mother next to
her bed. She realized that it all was just a dream, but a very scary dream!

PORTFOLIO ENTRY Write about one of your dreams.