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Past Continuous Affirmative Negative InterrogativeSet 101

1Past continuous: The boys broke a window when they ..... football.
2I found this gold coin while I ..... in the garden.
3When I called, he ..... a shower. (Past Continuous)
4This time last week, we ..... in Seville.
5He ..... while I was calling him.
6A dog ran onto the ground while they ..... football.
7Put the verb in the correct tense: Past Simple or Past Continuous. They (talk) ..... while I (wait) ..... outside the building. Choose the correct pair.
8The negative form of Past Continuous is .....
9She ..... dinner when she heard the news.
10She (dance) at the party when he (ask) her to dance.
11What type is the sentence is this? Mr. Williams was running down the street with his coat billowing like a cape
12While Alex was sleeping, his mother ..... for dinner.
13This time last week we ..... on the beach. Now look at the weather!
14Choose the question in Past Continuous:
15I ..... breakfast when you called.
16Mary ..... in the nightclub when she ..... her phone
17I ..... cooking when the phone ..... (past progressive tense)
18I ..... a shower when the water stopped working.
19What were you doing when you ..... the strange sound?
20The students ..... studying when the bell rang.
21I was going.
22Level 3:Confident (Challenge). Instruction:Choose the correct tense and write the full sentence. (last night at 9) We ..... (study) for the test.
23What is the correct form of the verb in this sentence? "I ..... to the park when I saw her."
24Differentiate between tenses: He was working vs. He worked.
25Maria ..... some experiments for three years before she decided to open up her own laboratory.
26It ..... while they were driving home.
27Choose the correct form:They was playing soccer yesterday.
28They ..... (prepare) for the event when the manager arrived.
29What ..... you ..... when the teacher arrived in the classroom?
30The Brown were having dinner at 5 yesterday.
31As she ..... the beach, suddenly she saw a dolphin jumping out in the air.
32As Liam ..... down the street, a flower pot fell on his head.
33Choose the correct optionI ..... a letter when she came to my room
34Did Alessandra cooking/ Was Alessandra cooking/ Were Alessandra cooking the dinner when Julia called her?
35When I ..... (arrive) home, my brother ..... (talk) to someone in the living room.
36Amici in caldario lavabantur; tum in frigidarium descendunt.
37The audience was applauding until he fell off the stage. The sentence is in,,,,,,,,,
38Identify the sentence that uses the past continuous tense correctly: a) "I was watching TV when she called." b) "She calls me while I was studying." c) "They were play soccer yesterday." d) "He is reading a book when I arrived."
39Which sentence is in past progressive? A) They were cooking dinner. B) They cook dinner. C) They will cook dinner.
40Choose the correct verb tense: She (was/were) reading a book when I called her.
41Which tense is in the first clause?I was watching TV when it started raining.
42My father (prepare) dinner when my mother came home.
43Level 2:Developing (On Level). Instruction:Fill in the blanks using the correct progressive tense. At 8 a.m., I ..... (walk) to school.
44The workmen ..... the roof the whole of last week.
45We were so late for the match that they already played / were already playing when we arrived
46While my children ..... around the house, I ..... my students in Zoom.
47Mark ..... chess, when it rained heavily.
48Shelly ..... her phone while she ..... her friend. The screen .....
49Choose the correct tenseI ..... thinking about what you said and I don't agree.
50Identify the verb tense: He was reading a book when I called him.
51They ..... television all evening yesterday.
52"She ..... (sleep) when I knocked at the door."
53I was surfing the Internet while my classmates ..... to each other.
54The commentator ..... the play-by-play when the power suddenly went out.
55While I (wait) for the bus, I (see) an old friend.
56While he ..... (play) football, it started to rain
57While I ..... the trumpet late last night, a neighbour came to complain.
58I ..... you because I ..... to music.
59While I ..... with a lovely girl, the whole crowd ..... us.
60Open the brackets and complete the sentences using the Past Continuous tense I/to go home/at 4 o'clock yesterday.
61It ..... at 2 o'clock yesterday evening.