This is an easy worksheet contrasting the past simple and past continuous tense. Put the verbs into the correct tense simple past or past progressive. Also, a simple sentence generally combines at least half a dozen. Past simple and past continuous cambridge university press. Efl esl activities and games for past simple and past continuous. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 answers. Exercise a very simple exercise some more practice some pictures to show you how things in the house have changed a couple of quizzes. Heres another exercise to practise the verb tenses. Liveworksheets transforms your traditional printable worksheets into selfcorrecting interactive exercises that the students can do online and send to the teacher. When jack dropped by to visit me, i was having dinner. I to take took a shower, then i to get dressed got dressed and to leave left.
To talk about a longer background action which was going on when something else happened, we use the past continuous tense. Past simple or past continuous exercise esl lounge student. A few exercises to practice on the simple past of regular and irregular verbs, including to be, positive, negative and question forms. Heres another interactive exercise about the past simple and past continuous tenses choose the correct tense. Yesterday i went to the post office, bought some fruit at the supermarket and read a book in the park in the afternoon. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 2 answers. Home page grammar exercises preintermediate past simple or past continuous exercise.
Golan open the door, her children do their homework and her husband read the newspaper. Grammar quiz past continuous decide if each question or statement is correct or wrong. Past simple and continuous exercises pdf ejercicios. Complete the sentences with past simple vs continuous. The worksheet is available in both colour and black and white version. Past simple, past continuous exercise 1 was doing, i broke was playing, was doing he drank, he ate i was having, i suddenly heard. Here you will find exercises to improve your english. Past simple and past continuous efl esl activities and. Christine was eating dinner last night when you knocked on the door. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 grammarbank. Its important to know how to form these verbal tenses structure or their use. An a2 level esl lesson plan for teaching the past simple and past continuous.
Fill in the blanks with a correct form, the past simple or the past continuous. The past simple shows us that an action was in the past, not in the present. It includes a suggested leadin activity, several classroom activities, a game and a collection of specially selected esl. Last night, while i was doing my homework, angela call. You can use this page with exercises of the different units to prepare the test. Download past simple or past continuous exercises in pdf. Whether the reconstructed distribution of xinka reflects a continuous xinka. Test your knowledge of past continuous tense with this grammar exercise fill in the blanks with appropriate past continuous form of the verb given in. Created with 1 pasado simple vs continous exercise 1. Were you watching watch the football match on tv when i phoned phone. Past continuous fichas interactivas liveworksheets.
Past simple and past continuous inspiration macmillan. Past continuous past continuous past continuous i was talking to our teacher. When the teacher came in, they were studying english. The past simple shows us that an action was in the past, not in.
I began to study at nine last night and i was still studying at eleven. A grammar worksheet with some exercises for consolidation of past simple and continuous. Past simple vs continuous exercises online it would be great if you have a look to our past simple or past continuous explanation. While my aunt was spending the summer holiday with us, she bought us a lovely gift. Present and past simple and continuous stative verbs revision stative verbs list extra grammar exercises for volunteers present simple vs present continuous pdf present simple present continuous online activity past simple cont pdf past simple cont online activity unit 2 present perfect theory. I usually drank orange juice for breakfast when i was a teenager. They can also find some extra activities, songs, films and video recommendations. Fill each gap with a verb in either the past simple or past continuous tense. Reconstructive description of eighteenthcentury xinka grammar. Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Verb tense exercise 4 simple past and past continuous.
Past continuous and past simple grammar beginner to. Past continuous board game cards page 2 past continuous past continuous past continuous i was riding a horse. The past continuous and the past simple help us to show how two past actions or situations are connected. Answers to past simple or past continuous exercise 2 1. Were you watching watch the football match on tv when. Exercise on simple past and past progressive ex08 ex08. The present dissertation attempts to contribute to such development by means of an.
Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses, then click the check button to check your answers. Simple past and past continuous exercise 4 english page. Helen do her weekly shopping when she meet her old friend, june. Lenca is rather different in word order, with its sov, from.
This blog has been designed with the aim of providing my students with most of the materials and activities worked in class. As i was walking in the streets of holland, i met an old friend of mine. Intermediate english exercise present perfect past simple created. Burlington books is one of europes most respected publishers of english language teaching materials, with over two million students learning from its books and multimedia programs, which include speech training, career training, elt materials and software. I to eat was eating cornflakes while dad to read was reading the newspaper. We were playing volleyball with mary when you called me. Complete the sentences with the past simple or the past continuous forms of the verbs in brackets. The past continuous tense is used to talk about actions or events that were in progress around a particular past time. Could be used in classroom or given as a homework task, also useful for revision or preparation for the test. We can use the past simple and the past continuous in the same sentence.
B complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Did your parents call you last night while you were watching tv. Finally, click here to download this exercise in pdf with answers. Past continuous and past simple grammar principiante a. October 4, 20 to talk about two simultaneous short actions we use simple tenses. Students have to inflect some verbs and to fill in the correct forms of past simple or continuous.