Solved exercises

Apart from the solved exercises you have seen throughout topic 3, here you have some more in order to improve your knowledge of English grammar and to gain practice with them.
Icono de iDevice Solved exercise 1. Past Continuous Tense

1) Paco _____ visiting London yesterday.

2) They _____ swimming in the lake.

3) Your father _____ repairing the car.

4) I _____ reading a magazine while you _____ listening to the radio.

5) My friends _____ watching the match on TV.

6) It _____ raining the whole morning.

7) The dog _____ barking all night.

8) The children _____ brushing their teeth.

9) Alex and Andrés _____ playing a tennis match.

10) My friend _____ singing a beautiful song when I entered.

 

Decide whether to use was or were.

Icono de iDevice Solved exercise 2. Past Continuous: affirmative form

1) Paco / walk / around/ Hyde Park

2) Alex and Andrés / play tennis / last weekend

3) Sonia / help / his brother / with English

4) I / wait / at the bus stop / for you

5) My sister / feed / the birds / when I saw her

 

Write positive sentences in the Past Progressive.

Icono de iDevice Solved exercise 3. Past continuous: negative form

1) Andrés and Alex / not play / golf / at weekend

2) My sister / not have lunch / when I got home

3) Paco / not visit / the British Museum / when it started to rain

4) Isabel / not wait / for a phone call / from London

5) My grandparents / not watch / TV / so late

 

Write negative sentences in past progressive.

Icono de iDevice Solved exercise 4. Past Simple vs Past Progressive

1) The car (break) __________ down when we (drive) __________ home.

2) While some of us (prepare) __________ dinner, the others (collect) __________ wood for the campfire.

3) Paco (turn) __________ off the lights and (go) __________ to bed.

4) My mother (come) __________ in, (look) __________ around and (tell) __________ me to tidy up my room.

5) The children (play)__________ in the garden while their parents (have) __________ breakfast.

 

Put the verbs into the correct tense: Past Simple or Past Continuous

Icono de iDevice Solved exercise 5. Past Simple vs Past Progressive

1) one action takes place after another

2) one action takes place at the same time that another

3) one action interrupts another

 

Say which of the sentences of the previous exercise correspond with the following patterns:

Icono de iDevice Solved exercise 6. Past endings pronunciation

stayed, practiced, rested, laughed, fixed, lived, decided, needed

danced, visited, remembered, stopped, wanted, cleaned, studied

Place the following 15 verbs according to their past ending pronunciation in /d/, /t/ and /id/.

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