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SUBJECT: Simple Past and Past Continuous: She Hurt Herself While She Was Playing Soccer.

This document provides examples and exercises to practice using the simple past and past continuous tenses in English. Section A gives sentences to fill in the blanks with the past continuous form. Section B gives scenarios to complete in the simple past or past continuous. Section C gives sentences to complete using either the simple past or past continuous appropriately. Section D gives prompts to frame as questions using question words like who, what, when, where, how, how long, and what kind. The document focuses on distinguishing between and practicing the simple past and past continuous tenses.

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SUBJECT: Simple Past and Past Continuous: She Hurt Herself While She Was Playing Soccer.

This document provides examples and exercises to practice using the simple past and past continuous tenses in English. Section A gives sentences to fill in the blanks with the past continuous form. Section B gives scenarios to complete in the simple past or past continuous. Section C gives sentences to complete using either the simple past or past continuous appropriately. Section D gives prompts to frame as questions using question words like who, what, when, where, how, how long, and what kind. The document focuses on distinguishing between and practicing the simple past and past continuous tenses.

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SUBJECT : Simple Past and Past Continuous

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

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


2. I met my old friend while I ………………………………………. (walk) home from
work.
3. Georgia saw a friend while she …………………………….. (ride) her bicycle along
Park St.
4. Peter fell asleep while he …………………………………… (study).
5. James stepped on Smith’s feet while they ………………………………….. (dance)
together.
6. I cut myself while I ……………………………………. (shave).
7. Mr. and Mrs. Peter burned themselves while they …………………………... (bake)
cookies.
8. Keennt 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)
…………………………………………………………………………………………
……
10. How did Martha fall? (dance)
…………………………………………………………………………………………
……

C) 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.
D) What’s the question?

how what where

how long what kind of who

1. ……………..Who did you visit …………….? I visited my cousin.


2. ……………………………………………….? We talked about my job.
3. ……………………………………………….? She went to the beach.
4. ……………………………………………….? She met her friend.
5. ……………………………………………….? They spoke Russian.
6. ……………………………………………….? They swam in the ocean.
7. ……………………………………………….? He had dinner at 8:00.
8. ……………………………………………….? I baked an apple pie.
9. ……………………………………………….? She cried because her dog ran away.
10. ……………………………………………….? I stayed for a week.
11. ……………………………………………….? I came home by train.
12. ……………………………………………….? He ate three hamburgers.
13. ……………………………………………….? He left the restaurant at 9:00.
14. ……………………………………………….? She wrote a letter to her mother.
15. ……………………………………………….? They studied all morning.
16. ……………………………………………….? We took a lot of photographs.
17. ……………………………………………….? We sent a postcard to our teacher.
18. ……………………………………………….? He fell asleep during the lecture.
19. ……………………………………………….? I lost my wallet while I was skating.
20. ……………………………………………….? They covered their eyes because they
were scared.

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