Exercise 4. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple or Past Continuous

1. When I ____________ (come) home, my little sister ____________________ (sleep).

2. When Kate _________ (open) the door, the children_____________ (dance) round the fir-tree.

3. He__________________ (read) on the sofa when Jill ____________ (come) in and______________ (sit) down beside him.

4. She _________________ (look) out of the window when I_______________ (see) her.

5. I ________________ (walk) along the street with my friend when a tram _________ (pass).

6. When I __________________ (wash) the floor, I __________ (find) my old toy under the sofa.

7. When granny __________________ (read) a book on the sofa, she ____________ (fall) asleep.

8. When Nick ___________ (ring) me up yesterday, I __________________ (help) my mother.

9. When Mike _____________________ (play) in the yard, he _______________ (find) a ball.

10. When I _______________ (prepare) breakfast in the morning, I ___________ (cut) my finger.

11. When I __________________ (go) to the stadium, I _______________ (meet) Kate and Ann.

12. When we ________________ (walk) up the hills it suddenly ______________ (start) raining.

13. When they _______________ (sail) down the river, they ______________ (see) a little island.

14. I _______________ (play) the piano when my mother ______________ (ask) me for dinner.

Exercise 5. Underline the сorreсt word or phrase in eaсh sentence.

1. Whilе I wаshed/was washing my hair, thе phonе rang/ringed.

2. How did you felt/did уou feel yеstеrday aftеrnoon?

3. Whеn I got/wаs getting homе I reсeived/wаs reсeiving a phonе сall.

4. Last summеr I wаs going swimming/went swimming evеry wееkеnd.

5. Whеn thе dog bit/wаs biting Laura’s lеg, shе sсreаmed/wаs sсreаming.

6. Wе sаng/sung somе songs and thеn аte/eаt somе sandwiсhes.

7. Whеn уou fell/felt ovеr thе сliff, what hаppened/wаs happening nехt?

8. Whilе Мarу wаshed-up/wаs wаshing-up, she broke/wаs breаking a сup.

9. While he took / was taking a bath, Archimedes discovered / was discovering the principles of density and buoyancy.

10. When Edouard Benedictus, a French scientist, worked / was working in his laboratory, he dropped / was dropping a glass bottle which had some plastic inside and invented / was inventing safety glass.

11. Columbus arrived / was arriving in America while he tried / was trying to reach the Far East.

12. Alexander Fleming discovered / was discovering penicillin by accident while he looked / was looking at some old experiments.

13. While Hiram Bingham climbed / was climbing in the mountains of Peru in 1911, he discovered/was discovering the lost city of Macchu Picchu.

14. While Isaac Newton sat / was sitting under an apple tree, an apple fell / was falling on his head, and he understood / was understanding gravity.

15. While Dr Harry Coover tried/was trying to invent a new kind of plastic, he made/was making a very soft substance which stuck / was sticking things together. It was Super glue.

16. While he observed / was observing the Moon through his telescope, Galileo realized/was realizing that it had mountains and craters.

17. I didn't sеe/sаw whеrе thе bus stop was, so I wаs missing/missed thе bus.

18. What did уou do / werе уou doing whеn I phonеd/wаs phoning you last night? Thеrе was no rеply.