EXERCISES. Ex. 1. Answer the questions using the Past Continuous Tense

Ex. 1. Answer the questions using the Past Continuous Tense.

1. What were you doing at 10 o’clock Saturday morning? 2. What were you doing at 11 o’clock yesterday evening? 3. What were you reading when your friend came to see you? 4. What were you listening to when I entered the room? 5. Who were you talking to when I met you in the corridor? 6. What were the students doing when the bell rang? 7. What were you doing when I called you? 8. Where were you going to when I met you yesterday? 9. What was your father looking through while you were talking on the phone? 10. Who were you waiting for while I was having a talk with the teacher? 11. What were you dreaming about at the English lesson when the teacher asked you? 12. What were you doing when it started raining? 13. What were you looking for when I opened the door? 14. What were your friends doing while you were laying the table? 15. What were you going to speak about when I interrupted you?

Ex. 2. Ask as many questions as you can.

1.They were dancing in the club at 10 p.m. yesterday. 2. My father was looking through the newspaper when I came home. 3. She was riding a bicycle when I saw her yesterday morning.

Ex. 3. Translate the sentences.

1. Вчера в это время я работал в офисе. 2. Вчера в 8 часов вечера я гулял в парке. 3. Пока я плавал, мой брат играл в теннис. 4. Мальчик вчера весь день катался на лыжах. 5. Когда он позвонил, мы завтракали. 6. Когда ребенок проснулся, мать разговаривала по телефону. 7. Вчера в это время я возвращался домой из Москвы. 8. В это время в прошлом году я пересекал Атлантический океан. 9. Она не выходила на улицу, потому что шел сильный дождь. 10. Пока учитель объяснял новое правило, я разговаривал с соседом. 11. Вчера моя младшая сестра играла на пианино весь вечер. 12. В 9 часов утра я все еще спал, а мой друг сидел в это время на уроке литературы. 13. Когда я пришел на вечеринку, Аня и Лена сидели на диване и разговаривали, Катя выбирала диск, Макс пил шампанское, Николай курил сигарету, Александр рассказывал анекдот.

Ex. 4 ⃰. Here are four short articles from a newspaper. Read them all. Look

through the phrases given below. What article do they go in? Where

exactly do they go? (Two phrases go with each story).

a. “I was working in the garden at the time,” she explained.

b. … because they were wearing masks

c. “I know I was driving fast,” he explained to the court.

d. “I was trying to mend my wife’s hair-drier,” he said.

e. … when he was travelling at 120 miles an hour

f. … who was coming home from school at the time

g. … while he was mending a plug

h. The earth round the bottom of the tree was moving.

Motorist Driving at 120 mph (miles per hour)

Motorist Jeremy Page had to pay a fine of $ 330 at Durham Magistrates’ Court yesterday for speeding. Police stopped him on the motorway. The speed limit on motorways is 70 miles an hour. “This was because I was late for work”. The judge said that this was no excuse.