Exercise 2: Past Simple or Past Continuous? Chia động từ ở
thì quá khứ đơn hoặc quá khứ tiếp diễn cho phù hợp
1. We (eat)____________________ dinner at 8pm last night (we started eating
at 7:30).
2. Yesterday I (go)____________________ to the Post Office,
(buy)____________________ some fruit at the supermarket and
(read)____________________ a book in the park in the afternoon.
3. We (watch)____________________ TV when we (hear)____________________ a
loud noise.
4. Julie (be)____________________ in the garden when Laurence
(arrive)____________________.
5. A: What (do)____________________ at 3pm yesterday?
B: I (clean)____________________ my house.
6. Last year I (visit)____________________ Paris and Rome.
7. They (have)____________________ dinner when the police
(come)____________________ to the door.
8. He (work)____________________ in the garden when he
(find)____________________ the money.
9. Laura (study)____________________ at 11pm last night.
10. He (sleep)____________________ when the doorbell
(ring)____________________.
11. I (walk)____________________ along the road when I
12. (meet)____________________ an old friend.13. It (be)____________________ a day in December. Snow
(fall)____________________ , children (sing)____________________ carols and
people (do)____________________ their Christmas shopping.
14. My ex-boyfriend (be)____________________ so annoying! He (always
miss)____________________ the bus and arriving late.
15. When I (call)____________________ Julie, she (work)____________________.
16. Why (cry)____________________ when I (arrive)____________________?
17. When he (get)____________________ home we started to eat dinner.
18. At 10 am yesterday, I (sit)____________________ on a bus.
19. I (enjoy)____________________ my book so much that I
(not/notice)____________________ that the train had stopped.
20. David (not/sleep)____________________ when I (arrive)____________________ ,
he (study)____________________ .
21. Mr Black (not/work)____________________ in the garden at 10pm last night.
1. Last week we drove through the Alps into Switzerland.
2. At 8p.m yesterday, we were watching a film
3. Did you see the football match yesterday?
4. James broke his arm when he was playing rugby.
5. Kylie made her first film when she was 21.
6. Mrs Jones didn't know how to open the attachment in her email.
7. What was your father doing when the alarm sounded?
8. When we left school yesterday, it was pouring with rain.
9. They were walking through the forest when the storm started.
10. I wasn't queuing for the bus when the accident happened.
1. drove
2. were watching
3. Did you see
4. was playing
5. made
6. didn't know
7. was your father doing
8. left
9. were walking
10. wasn't queuing