PAST
CONTINUOUS (I WAS DOING)
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PAST
SIMPLE (I DID)
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Use the past
continuous:
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Use the past
simple:
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WHILE AND WHEN
WHILE: significa mientras, se
usa para indicar que mientras hacías una acción otra persona está realizando
otra a la vez.
Ejemplo: I were living a shower while my mom
cooked.
WHEN: Significa cuando, se usa cuando una acción
se ve interrumpida en el pasado.
Ejemplo: I was watching TV when the phone
rang.
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EXERCISES
1/ Choose
the correct answers.
- My
dad came/ was coming home while
I watched / was watching TV.
- Tom
had / was having his supper when the phone rang / was ringing.
- My
mother shopped / was shopping
in the city when she heard / was hearing the ambulance.
- Sue
walked / was walking home when
she met / was meeting her friend.
- When
the ambulance arrived / was
arriving, the injured people lay / were lying on the ground.
- The
fire started / was starting
while I was sleeping / slep.
- When
my friends were calling / called.
I was doing / did my homework.
- I visited / was visiting my
grandparents when the accident happened / was happening.
2/ Complete
the sentences with while or when:
- I was riding my bike
___________ the rain began.
- Jane was buying shoes
____________
- The computer broke __________ I
was trying to send an e-mail.
- _____________ Lindo lost the
camera, she was playing in the park.
- _____________ he was calling
the police, the robber ran away.
- The students were talking
loudly ________ the teacher arrive.
3/ Complete
the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the Past
Simple or Past Continuous.
Policeman: What _________ you ____________(do)
last night at twenty to eleven?
Thief: I _____________ (watch) television.
Policeman: What _________you _________ (watch)?
Thief: Let me see. I ____________(watch) Beverly Hills
Policeman: I don’t think you ____________(watch)
TV at 22:40 last night. Beverly Hills
Thief: All right, I confess. I
_____________(rob) Mrs. Baker’s house.
Policeman: Why __________you __________(rob)
her house?
Thief: I ____________(rob) her house because I
_____________(need) the money.
Policeman: What _____ you __________ (need) the
money for?
Thief: I’ve got a large family and my father
doesn’t earn enough money. I _____________(try) to help them.
4/ Complete the sentences. Make the sentences
true for you.
- When I arrived home last night,
_____________________________________
- While I was sleeping,
_____________________________________________
- At 7 pm last night,
_______________________________________________
- Last weekend,
___________________________________________________
- While the teacher was talking,
_______________________________________
5/ Complete
the sentences using the Past Simple or Past Continuous.
Dawn
__________ (go) to London
Dawn
_________ (walk) across to the man and they ____________(stop) him. He
___________ (hide) another bag and an expensive
camera inside his coat, so the police ___________(arrest) him.
6/ Circle
the correct form of the verbs in the questions.
- What time were you seeing / did you see him Dawn.
- What was he wearing / did he wear?
- Did he stop/ Was he stopping when the police shouted.
- Where you reading / Did you read your book when you saw him?
- How many police officers did you tell / were you telling?
- Were they arresting / Did they arrest the man?
7/ Compete
the text. Use the past simple or the past continuous form of the verbs in the
box.
Come
wait buy look
hear read
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It was
about eight o’clock in the evening, and I ______________ for my train. The
train was late, so I ____________________ a magazine at the book shop. I
_____________ the magazine when I _______________ the information about my
train. I _____________ the clock and it was nine o’clock. Then, the man
______________into the station. He was very nervous.
8/ Write the complete sentences. Use the past
simple or the past continuous.
PAST CONTINUOUS
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_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
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PAST SIMPLE
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_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
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9/ Join
sentences 1-3 with a-c from exercise 2. Use when or while.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10/ Complete the sentences. Use the past simple
or the past continuous from of the verbs in brackets.
- Colonel
Howard – Bury _______________ (see) several large dark creatures while he
________________(try) to climb the North Face of Everest.
- While
the first Europeans ______________(explore) Everest in 1921, they
____________ (see) creatures that looked like large apes.
- Thomas
Slick ______________(investigate) the Yeti in
- A
Sasquatch _______________(kidnap) Albert Ostmann while he
____________(look for) gold in 1924.
- In
1941, while the Russians ___________(fight) the Germans in World War 2,
they ______________ (find) an Almas and they ________________(shoot) it!
11/ Complete the text. Use the past simple or
past continuous.
In 1811, the
Canadian David Thompsons ____________(travel) across Rocky Montains when he
_________________(discover) huge footprints in the snow. They were about 35 cm long, so Bigfoot has
got very big feet!
In 1967, the
American Roger Pattinson ___________________ (make) a film of a Sasquach, but
many people don’t believe his film is real.
More recently,
some people have said that there are links between Bigfoot and UFO’s.
In 1973, two girls
_______________ (wait) next to the road for a lift when they _____________(see)
a huge hairy creature. There was a red light coming from its eyes. The girls were
scared and ______________(run) away. The same night, other people in the area said
that they saw UFOs in the sky. A month later, a young man and two boys
____________________(look for) UFOs when they suddenly ______________(find)
one. While they _____________(watch) it, two creatures like tall apes
_________________(start) to run at them from near UFO. They shot at the taller
of the two apes, and the UFO suddenly ________________ (disappear). The apes
_________________ (walk) away into the night.
