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    The document provides a worksheet with exercises on using simple past and past continuous tenses correctly. It includes fill-in-the-blank questions and sentences to complete using either the simple past or past continuous form. The questions cover topics like how common accidents occurred in the past and describing multiple actions that happened at the same time or were interrupted by other events in the past.

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    The document provides a worksheet with exercises on using simple past and past continuous tenses correctly. It includes fill-in-the-blank questions and sentences to complete using either the simple past or past continuous form. The questions cover topics like how common accidents occurred in the past and describing multiple actions that happened at the same time or were interrupted by other events in the past.

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    WORKSHEET 8

    SUBJECT : Simple Past and Past Continuous

    A) Fill in the blanks with a correct form of PAST CONTINUOUS:

    1. Alice hurt herself while she ……………………………………………. (skate).


    2. I met my neighbor while I ………………………………………. (walk) home from
    work.
    3. Sally saw a friend while she …………………………….. (ride) her bicycle along Park
    St.
    4. Peter fell asleep while he …………………………………… (study).
    5. Bob stepped on Jane’s feet while they ………………………………….. (dance)
    together.
    6. I cut myself while I ……………………………………. (shave).
    7. Mr. and Mrs. Brown burned themselves while they …………………………... (bake)
    cookies.
    8. Tommy had a nightmare while he …………………………….. (sleep) at a friend’s
    house.

    B) How did it happen?

    1. How did Alice hurt herself? (play soccer)


    ………………. She hurt herself while she was playing soccer.
    ………………………….
    2. How did Martin burn himself? (iron his clothes)

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………
    3. How did Helen cut herself? (slice onions)

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………
    4. How did Jennifer meet her husband? (fix a flat tire)

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………
    5. How did Marvin break his arm? (skate)

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………
    6. How did you lose your wallet? (ride my bicycle)

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………
    7. How did Jeff meet his wife? (swim at the beach)

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………
    8. How did Bob get a black eye? (fight with his brother)

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………
    9. How did your children burn themselves? (make breakfast)
    D) Fill in the blanks with a correct form, the PAST SIMPLE or the PAST
    CONTINUOUS:

    1. He ………………………………….. (talk) with Mary, when Mrs. Smith came in.


    2. They ………………………………… (study) two hours last night.
    3. Jane …………………………………. (sleep) when the telephone rang.
    4. As I …………………………………. (walk) to the lab, I met my friend.
    5. We ………………………………….. (watch) TV last night.
    6. The customer ………………………… (pay) his cheque when he dropped his credit
    card.
    7. The barber …………………………………. (cut) my hair yesterday.
    8. She ………………………………. (dance) when she hurt her ankle.
    9. It …………………………………. (rain) hard when I got up.
    10. It …………………………………. (rain) hard last night.

    E) Complete the sentences with the words in parentheses using the SIMPLE PAST or
    the PAST PROGRESSIVE:

    1. Sally …………………………… (eat) dinner last night when someone


    …………………..
    (knock) on the door.
    2. I began to study at seven last night. Fred …………………………… (come) at seven-
    thirty. I ……………………………… (study) when Fred ………………………..
    (come).
    3. While I ………………………………. (study) last night, Fred
    ……………………………
    (drop by) to visit me.
    4. My roommate’s parents …………………………………. (call) him last night while
    we
    …………………………………….. (watch) TV.
    5. My mother called me around five. My husband came home a little after five. When he
    ……………………………….. (come) home, I …………………………………..
    (talk) to
    my mother on the phone.
    6. Yesterday Tom and Janice ……………………… (go) to the zoo around one. They
    ………………………… (see) many kinds of animals. They stayed at the zoo for two
    hours. While they …………………………… (walk) home, it …………….……..
    (begin)
    to rain, so they …………………………….. (stop) at a small café and
    ……………………
    (have) a cup of coffee.
    7. Yesterday afternoon I ………………………… (go) to visit the Parker family. When I
    …………………….. (get) there around two o’clock, Mrs. Parker …………………..
    (be)
    in the yard. She ………………………………… (plant) flowers in her garden. Mr.
    Parker
    ……………………….. (be) in the garage. He ……………………………….. (work)
    on
    their car. He …………………………….. (change) the oil.
    I invited Helen to my party.______________________
    I did my homework yesterday._____________________
    I played voleyball yesterday.______________________
    Two hours ago I saw BİLL________________________
    Last year I spent my holiday in Venice_________________
    I met Philip two hours ago____________________
    In the evenings we usually went to parks____________________
    Initially people used cameras as a means of security for
    banks____________________________
    He was diagnosed with memory loss_____________________________
    A doctor came across a scrawled phone number in his book___________________
    Within time he recovered from this ilness______________________________
    Animals found water and nutrients in forests.________________________
    Firefighters put out fires ın this region last year________________________
    Firefighters came to put out fire.__________________________

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