Question

Complete the dialogues with the correct past simple form of the verbs in the box. You need to use some of the verbs more than once.

Complete the text with the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

do

earn

go have

make

meet

spend

take

A terrible trip!

1 A: Yesterday 1.

three hours doing those

physics exercises for homework. me a long time, too.

B: It

you

the math problems?

A: No, i.

(not) time. 2A: My sister. a music degree at university

and now she plays in an orchestra. B: she a lot of money when she

started? A: No, but she she fun.

3 A: 1. B: you went to a summer camp last July. many friends?

A: Yes, 1.

countries.

people from lots of different

4 A: 1. (not) very well in the exam last week. I know I a lot of mistakes.

B: That's because you. time reviewing.

(not) much

A: I know. I thought I. a good memory, but I was wrong!

Past simple, past continuous and used to

Choose the correct option in italics.

(9) excursion (10) (be) to the wildlife

1 I used to enjoy/was enjoying history when I was in

primary school but now it's very difficult.

2 He gave/was giving a presentation in the communication skills class when the computer stopped/was stopping working.

3 Did you spend / Were you spending a lot of money when you were on holiday last year? 4 It was raining / used to rain when we left the house but

later the sun came/was coming out. 5 he I played / was playing on my phone when I received / was receiving a text.

6 My parents didn't use to let / weren't letting me go out on school days.

7 The children made / were making so much noise in the playground that they didn't hear / weren't hearing the bell.

8 We decided/were deciding to have a cup of coffee while we used to shop/were shopping in the city centre.

On the day of the school trip I (1)

(wake up) as usual at 8 o'clock to go to school.

1 (2)

(leave) the house when

I made I (3)

(don't have) my

sandwiches, so I (4)

(run) back

inside. I (5)

(set off) again and I

(6)

(walk) along the road when

suddenly it (7)

(start) to rain. At

that moment, my friend Alice (8)

(come) past in her mother's car and they

(stop) to pick me up. the

park about 15 minutes from our town. When we (11) (arrive) at school, the bus

was waiting outside, so we (12)

(get on) and sit down.

Alice and I (13)

(talk), so we

(14) (not notice) the other

students on the bus. Half an hour later we (15)

(look) out of the window.

We (16)

(be) at the museum, not in the park! We looked at the other people around us

and we (17) (see) they were from (be) the

another class. it (18)

wrong bus!

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