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Unit2. Exercise

The document contains practice exercises focused on the past simple and past continuous verb forms. It includes sentence completion tasks, verb form selection, and prompts for personal responses. The exercises aim to enhance understanding and application of these grammatical concepts.

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Unit2. Exercise

The document contains practice exercises focused on the past simple and past continuous verb forms. It includes sentence completion tasks, verb form selection, and prompts for personal responses. The exercises aim to enhance understanding and application of these grammatical concepts.

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UNIT 2: PRACTICE EXERCISES

Exercise 1: Complete each sentence with the past simple or past continuous
form of the verb in brackets.
1. ‘What ……………… (you/do) at this time yesterday?’ ‘I was asleep.’ \

2. How fast ……………… (you/drive) when the accident ……………… (happen)?

3. I haven’t seen my best friend for ages. When I last ……………… (see) him, he
……………… (try) to find a job.

4. I ……………… (walk) along the street when suddenly I ……………… (hear)


footsteps behind me. Somebody ……………… (follow) me. I was scared and I
……………… (start) to run.

5. Last night I ……………… (drop) a plate when I ……………… (do) the washing-up.
Fortunately, it ……………… (not/break).

6. I ……………… (open) the letter when the wind ……………… (blow) it out of my
hand.

7. The burglar ……………… (open) the safe when he ……………… (hear) footsteps.
He immediately ……………… (put) out his torch and ……………… (crawl) under the
bed.

8. As I ……………… (cross) the road I ……………… (step) on a banana skin and


……………… (fall) heavily.

9. Just as I ……………… (wonder) what I should do next, the acceptance letter came in
my mailbox.

Exercise 2: underline the most suitable verb form in each sentence.


The “Miracle on the Hudson”
1. First Officer Jeffery Skiles piloted/was piloting the Airbus A320 when it
took off/ was taking off from La Guardia airport at 3.25 pm on Jan 15th
2009
2. While it still climbed/was still climbing, and below 1,000 metres, he
noticed/was noticing a flock of birds which came/was coming towards the
aircraft.
3. A few minutes later the plane collided/was colliding with the birds and the
engines lost/were losing power.
4. The Captain, Chesley Sullenberger, took over/was taking over the controls at
this point, and Skiles tried/was trying to restart the engines.
5. Sullenberger got/was getting permission from La Guardia control tower to
land back at the airport, but since the plane rapidly lost/was rapidly losing
height, it soon became/was becoming clear that this would not be possible.
6. With no power in the engines, Sullenberger made/was making an instant
decision, and decided/was deciding to land the plane on the Hudson River,
the only free space available.
7. As office workers watched/were watching in amazement, he managed/was
managing to make a perfect landing on the water close to Manhattan just six
minutes after take-off.
8. The passengers followed/were following the safety instructions given by the
crew, and with their assistance all left/were leaving the aircraft, including
one passenger who travelled/was travelling in a wheelchair.
9. Nearby boats quickly rescued/was quickly rescuing the passengers from the
freezing water and from the wings of the plane, which slowly filled/ was
slowly filling with water.
10. All the passengers and crew survived/ was surviving without serious injury,
and crew later received/ was receiving awards for their conduct.
Exercise 3: Complete each sentence with the past simple or past continuous
form of the verb in brackets.

On my last holiday, I went to Hawaii. When I (go) 1………………………….


to the beach for the first time, something wonderful happened. I (swim)
2…………………………. in the sea while my mother was sleeping in the sun.
My brother was building a castle and my father
(drink)3…………………………. some water. Suddenly I (see)
4…………………………. a boy on the beach. His eyes were blue like the
water in the sea and his hair (be) 5…………………………. beautiful black. He
was very tall and thin and his face was brown. My heart (beat)
6…………………………. fast. I (ask) 7…………………………. him for his

name with a shy voice. He (tell) 8…………………………. me that his name


was John. He (stay) 9…………………………. with me the whole afternoon. In
the evening, we met again. We ate pizza in a restaurant. The following days we
(have) 10…………………………. a lot of fun together. At the end of my
holidays when I left Hawaii I said good-bye to John. We had tears in our eyes.
He wrote to me a letter very soon and I answered him.

Exercise 4: Complete the text by writing a verb from the box in each space.
Exercise 5: Use your own Ideas to complete those sentences.
1. At 8 o’clock yesterday evening, I
……………………………………………………………
2. At 5 o’clock last Monday,
………………………………………………………...…………
3. At 10:15 yesterday morning,
……………………………………………………...…………
4. At 7:45 yesterday evening, ……………………………………………………..
……………
5. Half an hour ago, ……………………………………………………………........
…………
6. Matt phoned while we ……………………………………………………….
………………
7. The doorbell rang while I
……………………………………………………………………
8. We saw an accident while we ……………….
………………………………………………
9. Ann fell asleep while she ………………….
…………………………………………………
10. The television was on, but nobody
……………………………………………………….
Exercise 6. Complete the text by writing a phrase from the box in each space.

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