Exercise 1: Chia các động từ trong ngoặc ở thì Quá khứ đơn hoặc Quá khứ tiếp diễn.
In my last holiday, I went to Hawaii. When I (go) 1…………to the beach for the first time, something wonderful happened. I (swim) 2…………in the sea while my mother was sleeping in the sun. My brother was building a castle and my father (drink) 3 some water. Suddenly I (see) 4…………a boy on the beach. His eyes were blue like the water in the sea and his hair (be) 5…………beautiful black. He was very tall and thin and his face was brown. My heart (beat) 6…………fast. I (ask) 7…………him for his name with a shy voice. He (tell) 8…………me that his name was John. He (stay) 9…………with me the whole afternoon. In the evening, we met again. We ate pizza in a restaurant. The following days we (have) 10…………a lot of fun together. At the end of my holidays when I left Hawaii I said good-bye to John. We had tears in our eyes. He wrote to me a letter very soon and I answered him.
Exercise 2: Chọn đáp án đúng
1. We …… on the lake when it started to rain so we went home.
A. finished B. finishing C. were finishing D. are finishing
2. My dad found some money while he …… his suitcase.
A. packing B. package C. are packing D. was packing
3. My brother ……… in Ireland when he met his girlfriend.
A. study B. was studying C. were study D. was study
4. My grandma tried pizza for the first time while she ………. in Italy.
A. staying B. is staying C. is stayed D. was staying
5. My mom ………. in the sea when she saw a dolphin.
A. was swimming B. was swiming C. were swimming D. were swiming
6. ……. it ……. when you woke up this morning?
A. Is….raining B. was ….. raining C. is….rain D.were…… raining
7. What …….. when the teacher came?
A. were you doing B. was you doing C. are you doing D. are you doing
8. What did you watch on TV while you …….. dinner yesterday?
A. were having B. was having C. were haveing D. was haveing
9. The man ………. his letter in the post office at that time.
A. is sending B. was sending C. sending D. was senting
10. It ………and cloudy when we left Ireland.
A. was rain B. was raining C. is raining D. rainingExercise 1: Chia các động từ trong ngoặc ở thì Quá khứ đơn hoặc Quá khứ tiếp diễn.
In my last holiday, I went to Hawaii. When I (go) 1…………to the beach for the first time, something wonderful happened. I (swim) 2…………in the sea while my mother was sleeping in the sun. My brother was building a castle and my father (drink) 3 some water. Suddenly I (see) 4…………a boy on the beach. His eyes were blue like the water in the sea and his hair (be) 5…………beautiful black. He was very tall and thin and his face was brown. My heart (beat) 6…………fast. I (ask) 7…………him for his name with a shy voice. He (tell) 8…………me that his name was John. He (stay) 9…………with me the whole afternoon. In the evening, we met again. We ate pizza in a restaurant. The following days we (have) 10…………a lot of fun together. At the end of my holidays when I left Hawaii I said good-bye to John. We had tears in our eyes. He wrote to me a letter very soon and I answered him.
Exercise 2: Chọn đáp án đúng
1. We …… on the lake when it started to rain so we went home.
A. finished B. finishing C. were finishing D. are finishing
2. My dad found some money while he …… his suitcase.
A. packing B. package C. are packing D. was packing
3. My brother ……… in Ireland when he met his girlfriend.
A. study B. was studying C. were study D. was study
4. My grandma tried pizza for the first time while she ………. in Italy.
A. staying B. is staying C. is stayed D. was staying
5. My mom ………. in the sea when she saw a dolphin.
A. was swimming B. was swiming C. were swimming D. were swiming
6. ……. it ……. when you woke up this morning?
A. Is….raining B. was ….. raining C. is….rain D.were…… raining
7. What …….. when the teacher came?
A. were you doing B. was you doing C. are you doing D. are you doing
8. What did you watch on TV while you …….. dinner yesterday?
A. were having B. was having C. were haveing D. was haveing
9. The man ………. his letter in the post office at that time.
A. is sending B. was sending C. sending D. was senting
10. It ………and cloudy when we left Ireland.
A. was rain B. was raining C. is raining D. raining
Chia các động từ trong ngoặc theo 1 trong 4 thì sau: Thì quá khứ đơn; quá khứ hoàn thành; hiện tại đơn và hiện tại tiếp diễn
1) He (give) gave me back the book, (thank) thanked me for lending it to him and (say) said that he enjoy had enjoyed it very much; but I (know) knew that he (not read) hadn't read it because most of the pages (be) were still uncut.
2) When he (see) had seen his wife off at the station, he (return) returned home as he (no have) didn't have to be at the airport till 9.30.
3) He (not have) didn't have to pack, for his wife always (do) had already done that for him and his case (be) was ready in the hall.
4) He (not have) didn't have to check the doors and windows either, for his wife always (do) did that before she (leave) left the house.
5) All he (have) had to do (be) was to decide whether or not to take his overcoat with him. In the end, he (decide) decided not to.
6) At 8.30 he (pick) picked up his case, (go) went out of the house and (slam) slammed the door behind him.
7) Then, he (feel) felt in his pockets for the key, for his wife (remind) had reminded him to double-lock the front door.
8) When he (search) had searched all his pockets and (find) found no key he (remember) remembered where it (be) was .
9) He (leave) had left it in his over coat pocket.
10) Then, he (remember) remembered some thing else; his passport and tickets (be) were in his overcoat pocket as well.
11) I (arrive) arrived in England in the middle of July. I (be told) had been told that England (be) was shrouded in fog all year round, so I (be) was quite surprised to find that it was merely raining.
12) I (ask) asked another passenger, an Englishman, about the fog and he (say) said that there (not be) hadn't been any since the previous February.
13) If I (want) wanted fog, he said, I (come) had come at quite the wrong time.
14) However, he (tell) told me that I could buy tinned fog at a shop in Shaftesbury Avenue.
15) He (admit) admitted that he never (buy) had never bought fog there himself but I (assure) assured me that they (sell) sold good quality fog and that it (not be) wasn't expensive. I suppose he was joking.