Global MCQ Practice
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Past Continuous For Interrupted ActionsSet 4

1Lydia ..... the batteries when suddenly they overheated.
2While the teacher ..... (give) instructions, the students ..... (look) at a spider climbing up the wall.
3I broke my leg when Tony and I ..... for the school sports day.
4I ..... an online article about General Vo Nguyen Giap when my friend .....
5The kids ..... television while their parents ..... dinner.
6While we ..... (play) chess, the lights ..... (go) out.
7They ..... (drive) to the airport when they ..... (realise) they forgot their passports.
8He ..... to school when he had a puncture.
9My parents were traveling when the storm began.
10PAST SIMPLE/PAST CONTINUOUS. Fill in the blanks with a suitable tense:'We (paint) ..... the house when it (begin) ..... to rain'
11While she ..... (sing), I ..... (play) the piano.
12A black cat ran across the road as I ..... my car to work this morning.
13Identify the sentence that uses the past continuous tense to show an interrupted action.
14I ..... (take) a shower when you ..... (call).
15I ..... a large tree when I ..... my back.
16Thomas ..... when the mailman ..... the doorbell.
17Complete the sentences:My dad ..... (fall) off the ladder while he ..... (paint) the carport.
18I ..... a book when I fell asleep.
19What tenses do you use when you want to talk about an action that happens in progress in the past and it was interrupted by another action:
20When I ..... home, my mother ..... dinner.
21The thief ..... away when the police man ..... him.
22All of the children ..... when Santa ..... at the house.
23While I ..... she .....
24Present or past continuous tense. Choose the correct optionThe baby ..... (cry) when I entered the room.
25We were listening to music when ......
26Fill in the blank with the correct form:She ..... (not, study) when I ..... (call) her.
27The children ..... when the lights went out.
28I a video last night when my best friend called.
29I ..... (eat) a sandwich when someone shouted, 'There's a fire in the school!'
30I ..... the road when the car hit me.
31Lindsay and her three friends ..... hide and seek when the gardener finished his task.
32When I ..... television, the door bell rang.
33The man ..... (guard) the king's treasure when the warriors found him.
34We ..... a Pop concert at the park when it ..... to rain.
35While I ..... the grass, he ..... his bike.
36Choose the correct answer: We ..... at the breakfast table when the doorbell ......
37How long ..... you ..... before the meeting started?
38THE TEACHER WAS TALKING WHEN THE INSPECTOR .....
39Choose the correct answer. She was preparing lunch .....
40I was leaving the office when my phone rang.
41I (watch) TV when he (arrive).
42The students were cleaning the schoolyard when the bell .....
43I ..... (read) my brother's diary when he suddenly ..... (come) into the room.
44Dad ..... the car when the storm suddenly ..... up.
45I ..... my finger while I ..... some bread.
46The teacher ..... us how to do the experiment when the fire bell rang.
47Complete the sentences with the words in brackets. Use past simple/past perfect/past continuous:Danny ..... (live) in America when he ..... (get) engaged
48What's wrong with this sentence?We were listening to some music when he was arriving.
49While we ..... having dinner, the door bell .....
50Mary prepared / was preparing lunch when they came / was coming.
51We ..... a movie when the lights ..... out.
52Select the correct combination of tenses for the sentence below."I went to a concert. Soon after the orchestra began playing, something strange happened. The orchestra ..... (play) for about ten minutes when a man in the audience suddenly ..... (start) shouting."
53An action that was in progress when another shorter one happened.
54While I ..... (listen) to music, I ..... (hear) the door!
55True or False:The past progressive tense can describe an action that was interrupted.
56While we ..... in the park, Mary .....
57While he was washing his new car, Lawrence ..... somescratches on his front bumper.
58I ..... my first footbal match while I ..... in New York.
59While we ..... (walk) home from school, it suddenly ..... (start) to rain heavily.
60Which tense is used for the second action when a past action is interrupted by another action?
61The light went out while he ..... dinner with his family.