ACTIVITY WORKSHEET 1

Name Grade Date

PART 1: LISTEN AND IDENTIFY

Listen to different English songs and identify Past Simple and Past Continuous phrases,
write them down in your worksheet.
Song 1: Love Story – Taylor Swift

We __________ both young when I first _________ you I close my eyes and the flashback
starts I'm standing there, on a balcony in summer air. See the lights, see the party, the ball
gowns. See you make your way through the crowd And say, "Hello" Little did I know…

That you __________Romeo, you _______________________ pebbles And my daddy

______________, "Stay away from Juliet" And I ________________________on the
staircase Begging you, "Please don't go," and I ___________.

Song 2: Yellow - Coldplay

Look at the stars, look how they shine for you. And everything you do, yeah they
_________ all yellow. I ________ along, I _________ a song for you. And all the things you
do, and it was called yellow. So then I _________ my turn, oh what a thing to have done,
and it _______ all yellow.

Song 3: Closer – The Chainsmokers

Hey, I ______________ just fine before I ____________you. I drink too much and that's an
issue, but I'm okay. Hey, you tell your friends it was nice to meet them. But I hope I never
see them again. I know it breaks your heart, ____________ to the city in a broke-down car,
and four years, no calls. Now you're looking pretty in a hotel bar. And I, I, I, I, I can't stop.

PART 2: CREATE SENTENCES

Write 2 sentences including the Past Simple and Past Continuous tenses and using While
and When.

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You CAN do it!