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On line exercise
Simple Past
Instructions: Complete each sentence using the verb in parenthesis in the Simple Past :
When Abby (be) __________(1) seven years old, she (do, not, like) _______ _______ _______(2) piano lessons. She (do, not, like) _______ _______ ________(3) to practise, and sometimes she even (cry) _______(4) when it (be) _______(5) time to practise. Finally, she (stop) _______(6) taking lessons.
Some of Abby's friends (do, not, quit) _______ _______ _______(7) their lessons. They (continue) _______(8) to play. After much practise, they (learn) _______(9) to play very well.
About ten years (pass) _______(10) before Abby (become) _______(11) interested in music or the piano again. After she (graduate) _______ (12) from high school, Abby (decide) _______(13) that she (want) _______(14) to study music in college. She (call) _______(15) the lady who (teach) _______(16) her when she (be) _______(17) a little girl. The lady (say) _______(18) she would teach Abby again.
The lady (need) _______(19) someone to help her daughter with homework. Abby (say) _______(20) she would help with homework in exchange for lessons. Because of this, the piano lessons (cost) _______(21) her nothing!
She (work) _______(22) very hard to catch up. Now she is making good progress. Soon she will go to college, majoring in music.
Past Continuous
Instructions: Complete each sentence using the verb in parenthesis in the Past Continuous:
Tim is a firefighter. One Sunday, he (spend) _______ _______ (1) some time at home with his family. He (play) _______ _______ (2) a game with two of his daughters.
Tim noticed that his cell phone (ring) _______ _______ (3), and that the fire alarm downtown (blare) ______ ______(4), too. He (not, feel) ______ _______ ______ (5) anxious to go put out a fire, but he went anyway.
While Tim (race) _______ _______ (6) to the fire in his red pick-up truck, he heard
on his police radio that a trailer (burn) _______ _______(7), and that a small boy (sleep) _______ _______ (8) in one of its bedrooms. His mother could not get him out.
At the scene, policemen and firefighters (run) ______ _______ (9) and yelling.
Most of the trailer (already, burn) _______ _______ _______ (10) by that time. Tim said he would go in through a bedroom window to get the boy. He (not, think) _______ _______ _______ (11) about his own safety at all. He wore a mask to
protect against the smoke.
When Tim reached the boy, it appeared that the boy (still, breathe) _______
_______ _______ (12). Tim put his own mask on the boy and handed him out the window to the other firefighters. By the time Tim got out of the window, he (not, breathe) _______ _______ _______ (13) well on his own, and had to go to the hospital.
Tim got an award for bravery from the City Council at its next meeting. The members knew he (put) _______ _______ (14) his life at risk when he went into that
trailer.
Past Simple vs. Past Continuous
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in simple past tense or past continuous tense.
e.g.: The teenagers (joke) were joking (past progressive tense) around in the hallway when the principle (tell) told (simple past tense) them to go to class.
e.g.: The sisters (plan) were planning (past progressive tense) a family reunion for spring, but their brother (do, not, want) did not want simple past tense) to attend.1) Claudia (learn) ______ _______ to be a chef when she (win) _________ a national recipe contest.
2) Aaron (enjoy) _______ _______ the old car show so much, he (do, not, remember) _______ ______ _______ that he had an appointment.
3) The band members (play) _______ _______ a concert when Adrienne's clarinet (squeak) __________. She (feel) __________ embarrassed.
4) The Apollo 13 astronauts (prepare) _______ _______ to land on the moon when
they (discover) __________ a problem with the spaceship. Unfortunately, they(do, not, land) ______ ______ _______.
5) Caroline (try) _______ _______ to find a job in Portland when she (hear)
_________about a great opportunity in Orlando.
6) You (sail) _______ _______ near Barbados when your ship (strike) __________
a sand bar; you (do, not, like) _______ ______ _______ waiting for help to come.
7) Cody and Matthew (sit) ______ _______ on a rocky ledge when a snake
(crawl)__________ out of its hole nearby. They (do, not, see) _______
_______ _______ it until it (get) ________ very close to them.
8) Sue (take) _______ _______ her medicine just as the doctor (order)
_______ when he (decide) ____________ to add another drug to her plan.
9) The Johnsons (tour) _______ _______ the Mediterranean when they (call) __________
us last November. They (do, not, want) _______ _______ _______ to come home.
10) I (look) _______ _______ for information about my ancestors when I (find)
_________ that some of them (be) _______ aboard the Mayflower.
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