A. Read the following text and look at the underlined verbs:
- I was eating my dinner when you phoned.
- What were you doing when the baby was crying?
- I was not listening to you properly that time because of traffic noise.
- Her English was improving a lot after some tutorial classes.
- It was midnight and my elder brother was still working on his laptop.
| Note: Any action that was happening at a certain time in the past is put in the past continuous tense. Here is the form: subject + was/were + main verb + ing + extension. |
B. Use the past continuous form of the verbs in the following sentences:
- The sun (shine) when we went out.
- When you came, I (write).
- My brother asked me, "Why didn't you receive my call?" "I (sleep) then".
- When the teacher came to the class, all students (stand) up.
- The bus started while some passengers (get) on.
- The boy took another piece of cake when the mother (not look).
- The teacher asked his students, "Why (make) a noise in the class?"
- We (have) dinner when electricity went off.
- The boy jumped off the train while it (move).
- Who (talk) there when I knocked at the door? "I (call) my sister."
C. Use the correct forms of verbs in the blanks of the following sentences:
- It ________ heavily outside when I _______ .
- Where _________ when I ________ you?
- When my elder _______my father _________.
- Our grandma ______ with us when we _____ in our village.
- Everybody _______ until the fire accident occurred.
D. Now write five sentences using the following pairs of verbs from the box. One is done for you using hear and pass by. I heard the noise when a train was passing by.
| Call and respond, ring and watch, stop and come, cook and go off, start and (not rain) |
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