Exercises

4.1 In this exercise you have to read a sentence about the present and then write a sentence about the past.

Example: Tom usually gets up at 7.30. Yesterday he got up at 7.30.

1. Tom usually wakes up early. Yesterday morning …………………………………..

2. Torn usually walks to work. Yesterday ……………………………………………..

3. Tom is usually late for work. Yesterday …………………………………………….

4. Tom usually has a sandwich for lunch. Yesterday …………………………………..

5. Tom usually goes out in the evening. Yesterday evening …………………………...

6. Tom usually sleeps very well. Last night ……………………………………………

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4.2This time you have to put one of these verbs in each sentence:

hurt teach spend sell throw fall catch buy cost

Example: I was hungry, so I boughtsomething to eat in the shop.

1. Tom's father ……………... him how to drive when he was 17.

2. Don ………...……. down the stairs this morning and ……………… his leg.

3. We needed some money so we ……….… our car.

4. Ann …………….….. a lot of money yesterday. She …………………. a dress which …………………………..……. £50.

5. Jim …………….…… the ball to Sue who ……………………..…. it.

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4.3 In this exercise you have to write questions. A friend has just come back from holiday and you are asking him about it.

Examples: where /go? Where did you go? .

food / good? Was the food good? .

1. how long / stay there? ………………………………………………………….………

2. stay in a hotel? ……………………………………………………………..…………..

3. go alone? ……………………………………………………………..………………...

4. how / travel? ……………………………………………………………..……………..

5. the weather/fine? …………………………………………………………….………....

6. what / do in the evenings? ……………………………………………………………...

7. meet any interesting people? …………………………………………………………...

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4.4 This time you have to put the verb into the correct form. All the sentences are past.

Example: I didn’t go (not/go) to work yesterday because I wasn’t (not/be) very well.

1. Tom ………………. (not/shave) this morning because he ………….. (not/have) time.

2. We …………………. (not/eat) anything because we ………………. (not/be) hungry.

3. I …………………. (not/rush) because I ……………. (not/be) in a hurry.

4. She ……………… (not/be) interested in the book because she ……………………….. (not/understand) it.

UNIT 5Past continuous (I was doing)

a)Study this example situation:

Yesterday Tom and Jim played tennis. They began at 10 o'clock and finished at 11 o'clock. What were they doingat 10.30? They were playing tennis (at 10.30). 'They were playing' means that they were in the middle of playing tennis. They had started playing but they hadn't finished. This is the past continuous tense: I / he / she was we / they / you were

We use the past continuous to say that someone was in the middle of doing something at a certain time. The action or situation had already started before this time but hadn't finished:

- This time last year I was living in Brazil.

- What were you doing at 10 o'clock last night?

b) The past continuous does not tell us whether an action was finished or not. Perhaps it was finished, perhaps not. Compare:

- Tom was cooking the dinner. (past continuous ) = He was in the middle of cooking the dinner and we don't know whether he finished cooking it.

- Tom cookedthe dinner, (past simple) = He began and finished it.

c) We often use the past continuous (I was doing) and the past simple (I did) together to say that something happened in the middle of something else:

- Tom burnt his hand when he was cooking the dinner.

- I saw Jim in the park. He was sitting on the grass and readinga book.

- It was raining when I got up.

- While I was working in the garden, I hurtmy back..

But to say that one thing happened after another, use the past simple:

- Yesterday evening Tom was having a bath when the phone rang. He gotout of the bath and answered the phone.

Compare:

- When Tom arrived, we were having dinner. (past continuous) = We had already started dinner before Tom arrived.

- When Tom arrived, we had dinner. (past simple) = Tom arrived and then we had dinner.

Note:There are some verbs (for example know) which are not normally used in continuous tenses.

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