Grammar Quiz Unit 1

2.2 Past Continuous and Past Simple Group B

Name: ______________________________________ Class: ____ Total: ___/15

1 Use the prompts to make sentences in the Past Continuous.

What / you / do / at seven o’clock?
What were you doing at seven o’clock?
1 I / play / computer games / all day yesterday.
I was plaing computer games
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2 your friends / wait / for you / all this time?
Were your friends
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3 Jon and Kim / swim / in the sea / but / Sue / read / an e-book.
Jon and Kim were swimming
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4 Peter / not / work / on his desktop computer then.
Peter wasn't working
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5 why / your brother / update his profile / before going to school?
Why was your brother updating his profile
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2 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Use the
Past Simple and the Past Continuous.
The cat was sleeping (sleep) on my laptop when I got (get) home.
didn't hear
1 I’m sorry I _______________ was shouting
(not / hear) you. My sister _______________ (shout).
were waiting
2 Gabriela and Theo _______________ (wait) for the bus when their father
called
_______________ (call) them.
were you doing
3 What _______________ Were you watching
(you / do) at nine o’clock on Sunday? _______________
(you / watch) that film about famous inventors’ lives?
was talking
4 When Rose _______________ (talk) to Nancy on the phone, the phone suddenly
crashed
_______________ (crash).
was
5 When I _______________ (be) about seven years old, a big computer company from
wanted
India _______________ (want) to give my father a good job there.
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