Daily test past simple – past continous

Name : Class : Score :

1. I ________________ a friend while I ________________ the shopping (meet, do)

2. I ________________ for my things when I ________________ someone call my name (pay,
hear)
3. Then we ________________ the cafe and ________________ good bye (leave, say)
4. When I ________________ she ________________ lunch. She said she always
________________ lunch at 12:30. (arrive, have, have)
5. The next day, as they knew that the police ________________ for them, they
________________ the coats in the woods and went off in different directions.
(look, hide)

Circle the right answer!

6. I listened / was listening to the radio when I heard / was hearing this fantastic song.
7. When the teacher said / was saying ‘Stop!’, I still tried / was still trying to finish the last question.
8. I feel really silly! While I danced / was dancing, I fell / was falling and broke / was breaking my
elbow.
9. Tim played / was playing a computer game when his mum called / was calling him for lunch.
10. I looked / was looking for a file on my memory stick when I noticed / was noticing there was a
virus.
11. Ron found / was finding a really interesting website about dance music while he surfed / was
surfing the internet.
12. My mum had / was having breakfast near the computer when she spilled / was spilling her cup
of coffee on the keyboard.
13. When you saw / were seeing me yesterday, I didn’t go / wasn’t going to school, I went / was
going to the doctor’s – I felt terrible.
14. How many pictures did you take / were you taking while you travelled / were travelling around
Ireland?
 Daily test past simple – past continous

15. Why did you chat / were you chatting to Philip while I tried / was trying to tell you something
really important?

Complete the story with the correct past tense form the verbs!

Sometimes I hate computers! Once, when I (was trying/tried) to do my English homework on my

laptop, the battery ran out. I was lying on my bed and I was chatting to my friend Sara on

WhatsApp. Ok, so I (wasn’t concentrating/didn’t concentrate) very hard on my homework and I

forgot to plug inn my laptop! I didn’t notice that the battery (was getting/got) low. I was just

finishing the essay when the screen (was going/went) black. I screamed in frustration because I

(was losing/lost) my essay