Упражнения на отработку навыков употребления прошедшего простого времени

Упражнения на отработку The Past Continuous Tense

Answer the questions:

1. What were you doing at 7 o`clock yesterday?

2. It was raining last Sunday, wasn`t it?

3. What were you doing when the teacher came in?

4. Were you doing your homework when your mother called you to have dinner?

5. Who did you see when you were going to school?

6. What did you see when you were looking out of the window?

7. Who did you meet when you were going home yesterday?

Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в одном из следующих времён: Past Simple, Past Continuous

1. Nina (to celebrate) her birthday yesterday. Her room looked beautiful, there (to be) many flowers in it. When I (to come) in, somebody (to play) the piano, two or three pairs (to dance).

2. When I (to look) out of the window, it (to rain) heavily and people (to hurry) along the streets.

3. What you (to do) at seven o`clock yesterday?

4. When I (to come) home yesterday, I (to see) that all my family (to sit) round the table. Father (to read) a letter from my uncle who (to live) in Kyiv.

5. Where you (to) yesterday? – I (to be) at home the whole day. How strange. I (to ring) you up at two o`clock, nobody (to answer).

6. What you (to do) at five o`clock yesterday? – I (to work) in the library. – I (to be) library, too, but I (not to see) you.

7. Yesterday I (to do) my English from five till seven.

Write questions.

A friend has just come back from Italy and you are asking him about:

Examples: What place/go? What place did you go to?

The weather/fine? Was the weather fine?

1. How long/stay there?

2. Stay in a hotel?

3. Go alone?

4. How/travel?

5. The food/good?

6. What/do in the evenings?

7. Make any friends there?