This document is an English language exercise for 8th grade students on using the past simple and past continuous tenses correctly. It provides 10 sentences for students to fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of either the past simple or past continuous verb tense. The sentences cover a range of scenarios involving actions that were ongoing or completed in the past, such as making a phone call, finding an object, breaking into a house, waiting at the airport, and meeting a spouse. Students must determine whether to use the past simple or past continuous form for each verb based on the tense required by the context.
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Ficha de Trabalho, Exercícios – Past Simple or Past Continuous
Original Title
1.5 - Ficha de Trabalho – Past Simple or Past Continuous - Bem Explicado
This document is an English language exercise for 8th grade students on using the past simple and past continuous tenses correctly. It provides 10 sentences for students to fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of either the past simple or past continuous verb tense. The sentences cover a range of scenarios involving actions that were ongoing or completed in the past, such as making a phone call, finding an object, breaking into a house, waiting at the airport, and meeting a spouse. Students must determine whether to use the past simple or past continuous form for each verb based on the tense required by the context.
This document is an English language exercise for 8th grade students on using the past simple and past continuous tenses correctly. It provides 10 sentences for students to fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of either the past simple or past continuous verb tense. The sentences cover a range of scenarios involving actions that were ongoing or completed in the past, such as making a phone call, finding an object, breaking into a house, waiting at the airport, and meeting a spouse. Students must determine whether to use the past simple or past continuous form for each verb based on the tense required by the context.
a. When I ________________ (study) abroad, my parents ________________
(phone) me every day. b. I ________________ (find) my ring while I ________________ (look) for my mobile. c. While Dick ________________ (prepare) lunch, two burglars ________________ (break) into the house. d. The airport was full of people. Some ________________ (sleep) on benches, some ________________ (shop), others ________________ (read). Everyone ________________ (wait) for news of the delayed plane. e. You ________________ (eat) all the bread, while ________________ (watch) the soap on the TV. f. Two burglars ________________ (break) into the house while I ________________ (watch) TV. g. What ________________ (you, do) when the police officer ________________ (knock) on the door? h. Jim ________________ (study) to be a doctor, when he ________________ (meet) his wife Sally. i. Tony ________________ (buy) his first motorbike 25 years ago. j. Most of the young people ________________ (leave) the village a long time ago.