Transcript Answer the questions, sometimes you need the past simple

Past Simple and Past Continuous
Put these sentences into the right order.
1. you this doing what
morning were?
2. I was night on the
playing computer last.
3. were last playing
football night we.
4. I eating rang was my
dinner yesterday my
phone when.
What were you doing
this morning?
Last night I was playing
on the computer.
We were playing football
last night.
Yesterday I was eating
my dinner when my
phone rang.
5. She saw was someone
when texting I her.
She was texting someone
when I saw her.
6. teacher I to listening
wasn’t the.
I wasn’t listening to the
teacher.
Answer the questions. Past simple? Or Past
simple. Ask each other…
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When did you come to the UK?
What were you doing this time last year?
When did you learn to drive?
Where were you living in the year 2000?
What was your first job? Where was it?
When did you leave home?
What were you thinking about this morning?
What was the last thing you bought?
What were you watching on TV last night?
Were you happy last year? Why? Why not?
1. My dad gave me a lift
a) She was skiing
2. My relatives arrived
b) She was working in a
restaurant.
c) It was raining
3. The police stopped him
4. I opened my bedroom
window.
5. When you fell of your
bike.
6. She met her husband
d) He was driving too fast
7. Anna broke her leg
g) You weren’t paying
attention to the road
8. Someone robbed my
house
h) When we were having
dinner
e) It was snowing
f) I was sleeping.
Finish these sentences…
1. I was walking down the street when…
2. She was talking to a policeman
because…
3. He was crying when…
4. She was laughing because…
5. The police were chasing him because…
6. I was talking on the phone while…
When did you last…?
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..go on holiday?
.. Eat a pizza?
..go swimming?
..have a fight?
..take an exam?
..win something?
..tell a lie?
..cook some food?
9. ..go to the cinema?
10.. go to hospital?
11. ..have an accident?
12. ...move house?
13. …go out (at night)?
14. …smoke?
15. … cry?