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    The document provides a series of exercises to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It contains multiple choice questions, sentence completion activities, and examples to choose the correct verb form for events that occurred simultaneously or sequentially in the past. The exercises focus on distinguishing between the past simple for actions completed at a specific time and the past continuous for ongoing actions in progress.

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    The document provides a series of exercises to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It contains multiple choice questions, sentence completion activities, and examples to choose the correct verb form for events that occurred simultaneously or sequentially in the past. The exercises focus on distinguishing between the past simple for actions completed at a specific time and the past continuous for ongoing actions in progress.

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    The document provides a series of exercises to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It contains multiple choice questions, sentence completion activities, and examples to choose the correct verb form for events that occurred simultaneously or sequentially in the past. The exercises focus on distinguishing between the past simple for actions completed at a specific time and the past continuous for ongoing actions in progress.

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    PAST SIMPLE-PAST CONTINUOUS REVISION

    1 Choose the correct option

    1 Your cousins played / were playing in the garden when you phoned.

    2 My parents went / were going to Italy last year.

    3 My brother didn’t use / used to like peanut butter, but he likes it now.

    4 I wasn’t seeing / didn’t see the dog this morning.

    5 You used / use to play with Jerry when you were a child.

    6 Cathy didn’t work / wasn’t working when I came in.

    2 Complete the sentences with the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in the box

    bake do hear listen live make crash read take watch

    1 Yesterday I ______________ the cleaning while I _____________ to my favourite band.


    2 We ______________a scary film when we ______________ a strange noise from upstairs.
    3 While I ______________ in Kansas, I ______________ lots of friends.
    4 While I ______________ a comic, my sister ______________ my phone.

    5 Jenny ______________ a birthday cake in the kitchen when a car ______________ into her front door.

    3 Put the verbs into the correct form and choose the correct words
    1 Sandra phoned her dad when / while I ______________ (try) to fix her new bike.
    2 She was really surprised when / while she ______________see) her friend Harry at the concert.
    3 When / While they ______________ (go) into the house, they saw some broken glass on the floor.
    4 What did you do when / while your family ______________ (say) that you were going to move to Canada?
    5 Mark hurt his knee when / while he ______________ (walk) on a frozen lake.

    4 Complete the sentences with the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs

    1 I ______________ asleep yesterday while I ______________ a boring magazine. (fall / read)


    2 When I _____________ at the party my friends _____________ . (arrive / dance)
    3 We _____________ the TV when it _____________ to make a strange sound. (mend / start)
    4 They _____________ Mary on her motorbike while they _____________ home. (see / walk)
    5 While we ______________ our horses we ___________ our new teacher. (ride / meet).

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