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Grammar past simpłe or past continuous?

New English File Teacher'* Book Pre-intermediate Photocopiable CO Oxford University Press 2005

Look at the pictures and write the sentences. Use thc past simple and past continuous.

1    They were playing golf when it

started to rain. (play, start)

2    His mobile    _when

he    ,    . (ring, drive)

3    We_,_thc news

when we _. __in

Corsica. (hear, sunbathe)

4    He _m____at the tower

when someone _    _

his bag. (look, take)

5    1___ . _a coffee when I

_her. (have, see)

6    She____ an accident

when she _    _to the

shops. (śee, walk)

© Complete the story with the past simple or past continuous of the verbs in brackets.

When Alex Jones ¹ arrived at JFK International airport she .    _(look) around but she ³_

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(not see) anybody there to meet her. A lot of people ⁴_    _ (hołd) cards with names on them, but they

⁵_(not wait) for her. She⁶_(not know)

what to do, but it⁷_(be) a beautiful, sunny day so

she ⁸_(decidc) to go to thc hotel on her own.

(go) outside and ¹⁰__(look) for a taxi. A lot of people ¹¹_

(wait) so she ¹²__ (catch) the airport bus into New York. The bus ¹³_(stop) in

Manhattan, quite near her hotel, and she ¹⁴___(get) off.

She ¹⁵    _(walk) into the hotel and ¹⁶_(give) her name, Alexandra Jones.

She ¹⁷___(talk) to the hotel receptionist when suddenly a man ¹⁸_(run) up to

her. He ¹⁹__(carry) a card which ²⁰_(say) ‘Mr Jones’.

‘Ms Jones? Tm terribly sorry! 1²¹_(wait) for you at the airport but I ²²_

(think) you ²³_(be) a man!’

‘Thats OK,’ ²⁴_(say) Alex. ‘It happens to me all the time!’

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She ⁹

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Grammar questions with and without auxiliaries

New English File Teather's Book Pre-intermediate Photocopiable © Orford University Press 2005

@ Make ąuestions using the present simple or past simple. Then circle the correct answer.

1 Who / write / Pride and Prejudice Who wrote Pride and Prejudice

2 Wlicrc / comc from / Manga comics Where do Manga comics come from

3 Where / die / John Lennon

4 Which country / win / the 2002 World Cup

5 When / end / the Yietnam War

6 Who / invent / the electric light bulb

7 Who / direct / the Star Wars films

8 When / walk on the moon / the first. man

9 Where / live / polar bears

10 Which actor / play / Spiderman

11 Iłów many countries / belong to / the United Nations

12 Which machinę / invent / Marconi / in 1895

13 Who / marry / Tom Cruise in 1990

14 When / Nelson Mandela / become president of South Africa

15 Which country / have / a red, white, and blue flag

_? (Jane Austen)/ Charles Dickens ? Japan / China _? Los Angeles / New York _? Germany / Brazil .?    1963/1975

.? Thomas Edison / Alexander Bell .? Steven Spielberg / George Lucas .?    1969/1970

_? the North Pole / the South Pole .? Toby Maguire / Orlando Bloom ?    127/191

.? the television / the radio _? Penelope Cruz / Nicole Kidman _?    1964/ 1994

.? Russia / Germany

O Test your mcmory. Cover the ąuestions. Look at the answers. Can you remember the ąuestions?

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