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Past Continuous Affirmative Negative InterrogativeSet 61

1Bonus (Wayground / Interactive Option). Instruction:Look around you and answer. What were you doing yesterday after school? Choose the sentence that best answers in the past progressive.
2My friends ..... (drive) to work when they heard the news on the radio.
3Julie ..... her wallet at 9 o'clock last night.
4She ..... a newspaper the whole morning yesterday
5Tim ..... his hair while I ..... up the kitchen.
6While I ..... (talk) on the phone, someone ..... (steal) my car.
7Pick the right form of simple past continuous tense: He (read/reading) a book when the phone rang.
8Identify the correct use of the past progressive tense.
9We saw an accident while I ..... home.
10Yesterday, at six o'clock, he ..... sleeping.
11I ..... out of the window when I saw him step out of the house.
12Choose the correct tense: 'She ..... (to study) for her test when I called her.'
13They were watching TV when the power went out. What were they doing?
14While we ..... home, we ..... by some local shops to buy souvenirs.
15What tense is the following sentence in?I was writing my story when you texted me last night.
16What ..... you doing when I called last night?
17Fill in the blank with the correct Past Continuous tense: We ..... (have) dinner at 7 p.m. last night.
18While Martha was playing chess, the doorbell .....
19Which sentence shows that two actions were happening at the same time in the past?
20Yesterday when I opened the door, she ..... a newspaper.
21When I arrived, they ..... dinner together.
22Choose the right variant: What ..... you ..... the whole day yesterday?
23The sun ..... (shine) brightly when we left the house.
24Brian ..... tea at 5 o'clock yesterday.
25It ..... (snow) when we ..... (leave) the library.
26He ..... his homework when his father came home.
27Complete the verb in the bracket into past continuous tenseOur uncle arrived while we ..... (have) dinner.
28Sentence Transformation Choose correct rewritten tense form) Rewrite in Past Progressive: "He plays the guitar."
29Choose correct verb form in the sentence When I got home, my sister ..... with a kitten.
30What does the sentence 'We were taking photos while the tour guide was talking.' illustrate?
31Which sentence uses the past continuous?
32Write the correct form of the verbs!1-While Susan ..... (walk) in the street, she ..... (meet) an old friend.
33It was a hot summer's day. We ..... in the garden and the sun .....
34At 5 pm yesterday, I ..... for the bus when I ..... a friend.
35Identify the past progressive tense in the sentence:'He was studying for the exam.'
36PAST CONTINUOUS TENSEAll the students ..... the class work when the teacher came in.
37Transform the sentence using the word in capitals: I have not been to a fancy dress party for ten years. LAST
38I ..... an online class in Advanced Maths when the Wi-Fi got disconnected.
39We ..... eating WHEN they ..... to play the piano.
40I was studying while He ..... (make) dinner
41(What kind of tenses is this?)Were you working when I invited you to my birthday party last week?
42I met Nita yesterday. She ..... watching the movie.
43I saw you while you (a) down the street.
44Complete the question in the past continuous and past simple.Jane's mother ..... (help) Jane when she ..... (do) her homework.
45We ..... home in the middle of the night when we ..... a flashing light.
46While they ..... Paris last year, thousands of tourists saw Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa at the Louvre.
47The artist WAS MAKING amazing pictures in his studio.
48My mother was cooking dinner when I was arriving home from school.
49Philip and Jonas (collect) samples of the rat cell for their experiment last weekend.
50The children ..... (played / were playing / plays / play) outside when their mother ..... (call / was calling / called / calls) them in.
51James and I ..... computer games all of last night.
52Mary was playing the piano while her mother ..... a book.
53Yesterday we ..... about English grammar.
54They ..... with Jackson in the conference room.
55We ..... watching a movie together last night.
56Which sentence is not past continuoue tense?
57I ..... a friend while I ..... shopping.
58Choose the sentence that correctly uses the past progressive tense.a) I am writing a letter later.b) She is writing a letter now.c) They were writing a letter when the phone rang.
59Gio's students ..... (study) Past Continuous.
60Jane ..... a bike last evening.
61What are the use of this past progressive sentence?'During summer, we were constantly visiting the beach'