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The past continuous (progressive) Tense

Exercise 16. Translate the following sentences into English | Exercise 2. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect Continuous. | Exercise 6. Express doubt ot disbelief about the period of time somebody has been doing something. | Exercise 3. Translate the following sentences into English using the Present Simple, Present Continuous or Present Perfect Continuous. | Exercise 1. Comment on the use of the Past Simple in the following sentences. Translate the sentences into Russian. | She used to eat a lot of sweets. | In the following sentences. Translate the sentences into Russian. | Exercise 10. Read the situations and then say which time it has happened. | Exercise 18. Use the verbs in brackets in the Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous. | By the time I got to the station my friend had booked the tickets. |


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  7. C) Make correct passive forms. Mind the tenses in brackets.

 
 

 


BE (WAS, WERE) + V + ING

Exercise 1. Comment on the use of the Past Continuous in the following sentences. Translate the sentences into Russian.

 

1. This time last year I was living in Brazil. 2. Was she working at 10 o’clock yesterday morning? 3. When Kate was watching TV, the phone rang. 4. We played ping-pong from two o’clock until four o’clock. 5. I was walking along Pennsylvania Avenue at 3 o’clock yesterday. 6. They were not studying at the university at that time. 7. She had poor health and was always complaining of headaches. 8. What were you doing the whole evening? 9. The children were playing while their mother was watching them. 10. Tom burnt his hand when he was cooking the dinner. 11. We were walking in the park when it started to rain. 12. Norman was working all day yesterday. 13. What was Martin doing when you stopped to give him a lift? 14. What were you doing yesterday at 8 p.m.? - I was writing a letter to our branch manager. 15. I found the money while I was shopping in the supermarket. 16. I was sitting in front of the fire when there was a knock at the door.

 

 

Exercise 2. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Continuous Tense.

1. What you (do) yesterday at 10.20 p.m.? - I (listen) to a play on the radio. 2. My wife and I (talk) about you the other day. 3. When I first met him he (study) painting. 4. Who you (talk) to on the telephone as I came in? - I (talk) to Mr. Smith. 5. Where he (live) when you saw him last? 6. I went into the garden to see what the boys (do). 7. The traffic made so much noise that I couldn’t hear what he (say). 8. John (work) all day yesterday. 9. He watched the children for a moment. Some of them (bathe) in the sea, others (play) in the sand. 10. One winter evening the old man and his wife (sit) by the fire. The old man (smoke) his pipe and (read) the paper. 11. John got off the train while it (go). 12. I (play) the piano when he came into the room. 13. She (live) in England when the war began. 14. He (walk) home when the rain began. 15. He hurt his foot while he (climb) the tree. 16. The car hit a tree while it (travel) at 60 miles an hour.

 


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