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    Writing Stories Using The Past Simple and The Past Continuous Tenses

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    1. Peter and Ann decided to redecorate their sitting room themselves. While they were working on it, they received several interruptions from visitors and phone calls. 2. They experienced difficulties because the walls were still wet when they tried to paint them. While waiting for them to dry, Ann received a phone call. 3. Just as they started painting the third wall, the doorbell rang with another visitor. They continued working between interruptions. In the end, Ann's aunt called to say she would be visiting that evening.

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    Writing Stories Using The Past Simple and The Past Continuous Tenses

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    1. Peter and Ann decided to redecorate their sitting room themselves. While they were working on it, they received several interruptions from visitors and phone calls. 2. They experienced difficulties because the walls were still wet when they tried to paint them. While waiting for them to dry, Ann received a phone call. 3. Just as they started painting the third wall, the doorbell rang with another visitor. They continued working between interruptions. In the end, Ann's aunt called to say she would be visiting that evening.

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    1. Peter and Ann decided to redecorate their sitting room themselves. While they were working on it, they received several interruptions from visitors and phone calls. 2. They experienced difficulties because the walls were still wet when they tried to paint them. While waiting for them to dry, Ann received a phone call. 3. Just as they started painting the third wall, the doorbell rang with another visitor. They continued working between interruptions. In the end, Ann's aunt called to say she would be visiting that evening.

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    Writing Stories Using The Past Simple and The Past Continuous Tenses

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    1. Peter and Ann decided to redecorate their sitting room themselves. While they were working on it, they received several interruptions from visitors and phone calls. 2. They experienced difficulties because the walls were still wet when they tried to paint them. While waiting for them to dry, Ann received a phone call. 3. Just as they started painting the third wall, the doorbell rang with another visitor. They continued working between interruptions. In the end, Ann's aunt called to say she would be visiting that evening.

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    WRITING STORIES USING THE PAST SIMPLE AND THE PAST CONTINUOUS

    TENSES

    Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense: simple past or past continuous.

    Peter and Ann (decide) to redecorate their sitting-room themselves. 2 They (choose)
    cream paint for the woodwork and apricot for the walls. 3 When John (look) in to see how
    they (get) on, Ann (mix) the paint, and Peter (wash) down the walls. 4 They (be) glad to see
    John and (ask) if he (do) anything special that day. 5 He hastily (reply) he (go) to the theatre
    and (go) away at once, because he (know) they (look) for someone to help them. 6 They
    (begin) painting, but (find) the walls (be) too wet. 7 While they (wait) for the walls to dry,
    Ann (remember) she (have) a phone call to make. 8 Peter (start) painting while she
    (telephone), and (do) a whole wall before Ann (come) back. 9 He (grumble) that she always
    (telephone). 10 Ann (retort) that Peter always (complain). 11 They (work) in silence for some
    time. 12 Just as they (start) the third wall, the doorbell (ring). 13 It (be) a friend of Peter's who
    (want) to know if Peter (play) golf the following weekend. 14 He (stay) talking to Peter in the
    hall while Ann (go) on painting. 15 At last he (leave). 16 Peter (return), expecting Ann to say
    something about friends who (come) and (waste) valuable time talking about golf. 17 But Ann
    nobly (say) nothing.
    18 Then Peter (think) he would do the ceiling. 19 He just (climb) the step ladder when the
    doorbell (ring) again. 20 Ann (say) she (get) tired of interruptions but (go) and (open) the
    door. 21 It (be) the postman with a letter from her aunt Mary, saying she (come) to spend the
    weekend with them and (arrive) that evening at 6.30.
    2

    Put the verbs in brackets into the simple past or past continuous.

    1 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. 2 To make quite sure, I (walk) on quickly,
    (turn) right, then left and (stop) suddenly at a shop window. 3 In a few minutes the man with
    the beard (appear) and (stop) at another shop window. 4 I (go) on. 5 Whenever I (stop) he
    (stop), and whenever I (look) round he (be) still there. 6 He (look) a very respectable type and
    (wear) very conventional clothes and I (wonder) if he was a policeman or a private detective.
    7 I (decide) to try and shake him off. 8 A 74 bus (stand) at the bus stop just beside me. 9 Then
    the conductor (come) downstairs and (ring) the bell; just as the bus (move) off, I (jump) on it.
    10 The man with the beard (miss) the bus but (get) into another 74, which (follow) the first. II
    Both buses (crawl) very slowly along Knightsbridge. 12 Every time the buses (pull) up at a
    stop, the man (look) out anxiously to see if I (get) off. 13 Finally, at some traffic lights, he
    (change) buses and (get) into mine.
    14 At Gloucester Road Underground, I (leave) the bus and (buy) a ticket at a ticket machine.
    15 As I (stand) on the platform waiting for a Circle Line train, my pursuer (come) down the
    stairs. 16 He (carry) a newspaper and when we (get) into the same compartment, he (sit) in
    one corner reading it, and I (read) the advertisements. 17 He (look) over the top of the
    newspaper at every station to see if I (get) out.
    18 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. 19 At first he (say) he (not follow) me at all but when
    I (threaten) to knock him down, he (admit) that he was. 20 Then he (tell) me he (be) a writer
    of detective stories and (try) to see if it was difficult to follow someone unseen. 21 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 if he (not want) his victim to know he (be) followed.

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