Pirate story
past continuous / past simple
 An old pirate was
pirate was sitting in
sitting in the bar. He was
He was smoking a
smoking a pipe and drinking
drinking a a glass of rum. He was
He was
 wearing an
 wearing  an eye patch and he had a parrot on his shoulder and a wooden leg. Instead of his right
hand he had a metal hook. A young sailor was
sailor was chatting with
chatting with the pirate and he asked him about his
his
adventures at sea.
‘So, how did you lose your
lose your leg?’, the young man asked the pirate.
‘Arrr! my
Luckily, ,’ said
menthe pirate,
pulled me‘You see,
back some
onto thesharks 
sharks  werethe
 were
ship before circling
circling the
sharks the
ate ship when I fell overboard.
me completely, overboar
but one ofd.the
sharks got my leg.’ 
leg.’ 
‘And how about the hook on your hand? How did you lose yourlose your hand?’ 
hand?’ 
‘I 
‘I was
 was boarding a
boarding a ship when another sailor cut off my hand with a sword.’ sword.’ 
‘That’s amazing! What a life full of adventures!’ said the young man. ‘And how about your eye?
How did you lose that?’ 
that?’ 
‘I 
‘I was
 was eating a
eating a grapefruit when the juice went into my eye.’ 
eye.’ 
‘But I don’t understand. How did you lose your
lose your eye from the grapefruit juice?’
juice?’  
‘Arrr!’ said the pirate, ‘it was my first day with the new hook.’ 
hook.’ 

Grammar: past continuous vs. past simple

Task 1
 Which one is past simple and which
which one is past continuous?

 When do we use past simple

simple to
Use the _______________
the _______________ to and past continuous?
describe something in progress over a period of time in the past.
Use the _______________
the _______________ to  to talk about something completed in the past.

Fill in the table with …: V1, V2, V-ing, was/were, wasn ’t/weren’t, did, didn’t
PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOU
CONTINUOUS
S

+ + _________ + + ________ + __V-ing___

- + ________ + _________ - + ________ + __V-ing__

? (QW) + _____ + + _V1_...? ? (QW)+was/we

(QW)+was/were
re + + ____...?
 

Task 2
Choose the correct form to complete these sentences. Use the verbs in brackets.
1.  I ____________ TV when the phone ____________. [watch / ring] ring]  
2.  What ____ you _______
_______ when you ____
____________
________ y your
our leg? [do / hurt] 
hurt] 
3. 
3.  We ____
____________
________ football when it __
____________
__________ to rain. [play / start]
4. 
4.  I __
____________
__________ a bath when you _________
____________.
___. [have / call] 
call] 
5.
5.   She ___
____________
_________ too many books when she _____
____________
_______ over. [carry / fall]
fall]  
6. 
6.  I __
____________
__________ in the library when David ____ ________ in. [work / walk] 
____________ walk] 
7.
7.   He _____
____________
_______ his email when the computer ___
____________
_________.. [write / crash] 
crash] 
8. 
8.  ____ y you
ou _______ when I ____________
___________ _ you last night?
night? [sleep
 [sleep / phone]

9. 
9.  I ___
money.____________
_________
[look / find] for my shoes in the ccupboard
upboard when I ___________
____________
_ the
10. Mark ____________
____________ when he ____________ a noise in the night. [sleep / hear]
hear]  

Task 3
 Vocabulary exercises
 A. Match the broken expressions.
expressions.
1. to board... 2 . to fall... 3. to wear... 4. to chat with... 5. to eat...

 A. ...a friend B. ...a grapefruit C. ...overboard D. ...an eye patch E. ...a ship

B. What are these things used for?

1. a hook 2. a sword 3. a pipe 4. a patch 5. a ship

 A. This is used to fight with, as a weapon

B. This is used tto
o smoke leaf tobacco
C. This is sometimes u used
sed tto
o cat
catch
ch fi
fish
sh
D. This is used to travel across oceans
E. This is used tto
o cover an injured eye

Adapted from: esljokes.net.