Exercises: simple past and past continuous

 

 

 Hello everybody!

 He pensado que la entrada de hoy la vamos a usar para practicar con el simple past and past continuous tense. Ya en entradas anteriores nos ocupamos de la teoría y ejercicios de ambos tiempos, pero hoy vamos a practicar con ellos en ejercicios donde van a ir unidos y tendremos que poner en practica el uso de cada uno de ellos.

 He elegido un texto del libro de ejercicios de Practical English Grammar de A. J. Thomson que me ha parecido interesante para aprender a diferenciar cuando se debe emplear un tiempo y cuando el otro y al ser un texto, en el que unas oraciones van a ir relacionadas con las otras, creo que nos va a venir mucho mejor.

 Aquí os dejo el texto que os he comentado en el que debéis de poner en pasado simple o pasado continuo.

 Put he verbs in backets into the correct tense.

 I (walk) along Piccadilly when I (realize) that a man with a ginger beard, whom I had seen three times already that afternoon, (follow) me. To make quite sure, I (walk) on quickly, (turn) right, then left and (stop) suddenly at a shop window. In a few minutes the man with the beard (appear) and (stop) at another shop window. I (go) on. Whenever I (stop) he (stop), and whenever I (look) round he (be) still there. He (look) a very respectable type and (wear) very conventional clothes and I (wonder) if he was a policeman or a private detective. I (decide) to try and shake him off. A 74 bus (stand) at the bus stop just beside me. Then the conductor (come) downstairs and (ring) the bell, just as the bus (move) off, I (jump) on it. The man with the beard (miss) the bus but (get) into another 74, which (follow) the first. Both buses (crawl) very slowly along Knightsbridge. Every time the buses (pull) up at a stop, the man (look) out anxiously to see if I (get) off. Finally, at some traffic lights, he (change) buses and (get) into mine. At Gloucester Road Underground, I (leave) the bus and (buy) a ticket at a ticket machine. As I (stand) on the platform waiting for a Circle Line train, my pursuer (come) down the stairs. He (carry) a newspaper and when we (get) into the same compartment, he (sit) in one corner reading it, and I (read) the advertisements. He (look) over the top of the newspaper at every station to see if I (get) out. I (become) rather tired of being shadowed like this, so finally I (go) and (sit) beside the man and (ask) him why he (follow) me. At first he (say) he (not follow) me at all but when I (threaten) to knock him down, he (admit) that he was. Then he (tell) me he (be) a writer of detective stories and (try) to see if it was difficult to follow someone unseen. I (tell) him he hadn’t been unseen because I had noticed him in Piccadilly and I (advise) him to shave off his ginger beard because if he (not want) his victim to know he (be) followed.

 

Quizá alguno prefiere ejercicios sueltos donde practicar con oraciones sueltas, si sois de este grupo aquí os dejo algunos ejercicios con los que podéis practicar los usos de los dos tiempos verbales.

 Circle the correct words.

While / When they were cooking sausages on the beach, it started to rain.

Where were you going while / when we met you?

While / when we watched / were watching TV, somebody knocked / was knocking at the door.

They played / were playing football when / while she broke / was breaking her leg.

Were you watching the match while / when I phoned you?

While / when I wasn’t watching, she jumped out of the tree.

She found / was finding the letter from Alex while / when she cleaned / was cleaning her room.

He fell / was falling out of the tree while / when he picked / was picking fruit.

 Order he words to make sentences.

 A bird/ my breakfast / flew / having / I / into / the kitchen / was / while

at / her bag / bus stop / a man / She / standing / stole / the / was / when

engine trouble / flying / over / the sea / started/ the / The plane / was / when

saw / shark / swimming / the / the island / to / We / we / were / when

getting / I / I / into / saw / snake / my tent / a / was / While

the beach / they / some treasure / were / found / While / along / waling / they

 Write questions for these answers. Use the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs.

 I started reading it yesterday afternoon. When………………………………….?

I was thinking about a book called The Hobbit when Adam arrived. What…………….?

We travelled around Asia last summer. Where………………….?

Sam was talking to his friend Anita. Who………………..?

I lived there for more than two years. How…………………?

At nine thirty I was watching a horror film. What…………………….?

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