English Exercises > past continuous exercises

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1. Label the pictures.                                                                                                                               2.Complete the sentences with WAS/ WERE  1.There   two cinemas in our town  2. There  one train last Sunday, it  an expess train.  3. There  a lot of rain two years ago.  4.There  several trees in our garden, but they  not very tall.  5. There  a lake in the park near my house, but it  (not) very deep.   3.Complete the sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the Past Continuous tense .       1 It  (snow) when I left home this morninig.     2 He   (talk) on the phone , when I arrived.     3  A lot of people  for the 7.30 bus last night.    4  Which hotel   (you/stay) in when you lost your passport?    5 He didn't hear the phone because he   (listen) to music.    6  She  (not/watch) a TV when I entered her room.    7   (they/ stay) in a hotel last summer?    8  Mozart  (play) a piano when he was three.   4.Complete the sentences with COULD/COULDN'T       1.He couldcouldn't play last week because he was injured.     2. Susan couldcouldn't read when she was four.     3. I couldcouldn't run very fast when I was young.     4.When I was ill, I couldcouldn't go to school.     5. We couldcouldn't watch the film last night because we had to go out.