Exercise 4. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple or Past Continuous.
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1. When I ____________ (come) home, my little sister ____________________ (sleep).
2. When Kate _________ (open) the door, the children_____________ (dance) round the fir-tree.
3. He__________________ (read) on the sofa when Jill ____________ (come) in and______________ (sit) down beside him.
4. She _________________ (look) out of the window when I_______________ (see) her.
5. I ________________ (walk) along the street with my friend when a tram _________ (pass).
6. When I __________________ (wash) the floor, I __________ (find) my old toy under the sofa.
7. When granny __________________ (read) a book on the sofa, she ____________ (fall) asleep.
8. When Nick ___________ (ring) me up yesterday, I __________________ (help) my mother.
9. When Mike _____________________ (play) in the yard, he _______________ (find) a ball.
10. When I _______________ (prepare) breakfast in the morning, I ___________ (cut) my finger.
11. When I __________________ (go) to the stadium, I _______________ (meet) Kate and Ann.
12. When we ________________ (walk) up the hills it suddenly ______________ (start) raining.
13. When they _______________ (sail) down the river, they ______________ (see) a little island.
14. I _______________ (play) the piano when my mother ______________ (ask) me for dinner.
Exercise 5. Underline the ñorreñt word or phrase in eañh sentence.
1. Whilå I wàshed/was washing my hair, thå phonå rang/ringed.
2. How did you felt/did óou feel yåstårday aftårnoon?
3. Whån I got/wàs getting homå I reñeived/wàs reñeiving a phonå ñall.
4. Last summår I wàs going swimming/went swimming evåry wååkånd.
5. Whån thå dog bit/wàs biting Laura's låg, shå sñreàmed/wàs sñreàming.
6. Wå sàng/sung somå songs and thån àte/eàt somå sandwiñhes.
7. Whån óou fell/felt ovår thå ñliff, what hàppened/wàs happening nåõt?
8. Whilå Ìaró wàshed-up/wàs wàshing-up, she broke/wàs breàking a ñup.
9. While he took / was taking a bath, Archimedes discovered/was discovering the principles of density and buoyancy.
10. When Edouard Benedictus, a French scientist, worked/was working in his laboratory, he dropped / was dropping a glass bottle which had some plastic inside and invented/was inventing safety glass.
11. Columbus arrived/was arriving in America while he tried/was trying to reach the Far East.
12. Alexander Fleming discovered/was discovering penicillin by accident while he looked/was looking at some old experiments.
13. While Hiram Bingham climbed/was climbing in the mountains of Peru in 1911, he discovered/was discovering the lost city of Macchu Picchu.
14. While Isaac Newton sat/was sitting under an apple tree, an apple fell/was falling on his head, and he understood/was understanding gravity.
15. While Dr Harry Coover tried/was trying to invent a new kind of plastic, he made/was making a very soft substance which stuck/was sticking things together. It was Super glue.
16. While he observed/was observing the Moon through his telescope, Galileo realized/was realizing that it had mountains and craters.
17. I didn't såe/sàw whårå thå bus stop was, so I wàs missing/missed thå bus.
18. What did óou do/werå óou doing whån I phonåd/wàs phoning you last night? Thårå was no råply.