Grammar
3 put the verbs in brackets into the
past simple or past continuous
1 michael
board game in his grandparents home
(find) an old
21
(sleep)
when my brother
(call) me
(you/sco)
a film yesterday evening?
4 my family and i
(enjoy) the festival last week
5 mandy
(go) to
disneyland with her parents last summer
6 we
(walk) to school
when
(start) to rain
7 !
(do) my homework
while mum
(cook) dinner
8 jenny /make) a cake for
her birthday party
9 mr roberts
(take) the
children to the zoo last week
10
(they drive)
to the beach last weekend?
11 sandy
(study)
for her maths test at 7 o'clock yesterday
evening
12 mark and fay
on the phone when the
(go) out
13 thomas
(meet) his
friends at the cafe last night,
14 amanda
(invite)
all her classmates to her birthday party
15 tina
)
while she
(have)
a shower
(john/spend)
the day with his grandfather yesterday?
17 bob
(not take)
notes while the teacher was talking
(talk)

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