UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CAJAMARCA

Topic: Past simple and past continuous

Name:……………………………………………………………………………………………………..……… Date: …………………………

1. The following description belongs to: (1 p)

Describes actions or events located in a time before the present, whose beginning is located in the past and
which has not yet finished at the time of speaking.
a. Simple past
b. Past continuous
c. Past perfect simple
d. Past perfect
2. It encloses the structure that belongs to the Past continuous tense. (1
p)
a. Subject + verb in past + complement
b. Subject + to be + verb + ing + complement
c. Subject + was/were + infinitive + -ing
3. Complete with the corresponding time. (1
p)
1. She……...…. studying all evening.
2. ………. we watching tv?
4. Translate: (1
p)
He was playing the piano when the bell rang.
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5. Translate: (1 p)
In 1918 the English women's suffrage movement was voting for the first time.
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