Heres another interactive exercise about the past simple and past continuous tenses choose the correct tense. When the boys arrived at the cinema, the film had already started, 3. I use the present continuous to speak about repeated actions. We use it for things in the past which have finished. I use the present continuous to speak about my daily routine. All the tickets had been sold before the concert began. They can also find some extra activities, songs, films and video recommendations. Were you watching watch the football match on tv when i phoned phone. Worksheet 2 past simple and past continuous 1 complete the sentences with the correct past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets. He lived live with his family in a small house in liverpool. These are exercises to rewrite sentences and make questions for the answers given.
You study english at school, but youre learning maths at the moment. Oct 02, 2014 past simple vs past continuous past simple past continuous a. Eso 2 photocopiable b burlington books past simple past continuous answers a 1 a 2 b 3 a 4 a 5 a 6 b b 1 saw 5 stopped 2 were playing 6 were. Past simple and past continuous pdf exercises with answers. Complete the sentences with the past simple or the past continuous forms of the verbs in brackets. I had an important meeting to describe a completed action that happened at a specific time in the past. Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. I a book i an email 1 2 they water they coffee 3 4 1 completa. The action had not finished at a particular time in the past. Past simple, past continuous exercise 1 was doing, i broke was playing, was doing he drank, he ate i was having, i suddenly heard. Heres another exercise to practise the verb tenses. There are two types of english verbs in the past simple regular and.
Complete the sentences with the past simple or the past continuous forms of the verbs in. Complete the following text using the past tense of the. Dec 17, 2016 past simple past continuous uses to describe a completed action in the past. We use it for things a long way back in the past and in the recent past. Complete the conversations with the correct verbs from the box in the present continuous. Use and formation 8 min when do we use the present continuous. Choose the verb from the list that best fits in the sentence below. Yesterday i went to the post office, bought some fruit at the supermarket and read a book in the park in the afternoon. Verb tense exercise 4 simple past and past continuous f t p using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses, then click the check button to check your answers. He started university in 1996 to describe consecutive actions in the past. I dont live in this city, im just spending some days here. Im not thirsty now 2 my sister was watching tv while her husband play with the children 3 i cycle home when it happened 4 we sit at our desks when the teacher came in 5 we sit down when the teacher did so. Infinitive past simple past participle built buy bet chose done ate come drawn fell fly gone leave lost paid feel burst known ring sold read. Download past simple or past continuous exercises in pdf.
The past continuous tense an elementary grammar worksheet fromanna grammarz the past continuous tense has these uses. Put the verbs into the correct tense present simple or present continuous the train. No sir, i was not talking on my cell phone i was watching a tv show on my ipod past continuous. I felt sick yesterday morning so i went to the doctor. U p p e r i nt e r m e d i a t e g r a m m a r e x e r c i. When i left university, i went to work for a private school. Before we reached the station we saw that we had lost our way.
While i was away on holiday, my sister fall fell ill and i had to come home. Present simple present continuous compare these sentences in ps and pc. We use it for things in the past with a connection to the present. I use the present continuous to speak about my current project. First try to do this online exercise, you can correct yourself then this is the one you have to hand in to your teacher exercises these are the keys for the exercises of past keys fo. Use the correct form of the past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple or past perfect continuous. Past simplepast continuouspast perfect palomascorner. Past simple and past continuous inspiration macmillan. May and might modals of probability must necessity numbers.
Complete the sentences in present continuous with the. Make questions using the past continuous tenseenglish. Make questions using the past continuous tense other english exercises on the same topics. Fill in the blanks with the present continuous or the simple present of the verb in brackets 1. I use the present continuous to speak about what is happening now. Irregular past simple tense verbs do not end in ed. The future continuous exercise will be dancing a fill the gaps with the verb in brackets using the future continuous tense. It is used to talk about something that was happening at some time in the past. My father works in a factory, but he isnt working today because its sunday. We use it for single events or situations in the past. Complete the sentences with the past tense form of the verb from exercise 1. Write the verb in its correct parts in the boxes, then press enter to check. This blog has been designed with the aim of providing my students with most of the materials and activities worked in class. Past simple and continuous exercises pdf ejercicios ingles online.
Past tense rules printable grammar rules to download for free. Ianual of artillery exercises for the number of required for the various natures of guns that may be mounted. Verbs 2 tenses 02 present continuous 4 the present. I usually drank orange juice for breakfast when i was a teenager. We dont have anything special planned for this weekend.
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