Past Continuous Tense (Lesson 7)

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A. Read the following text and look at the underlined verbs:

I was eating my dinner when you phoned.
What were you doing when the baby was crying?
I was not listening to you properly that time because of traffic noise.
Her English was improving a lot after some tutorial classes.
It was midnight and my elder brother was still working on his laptop.

Note: Any action that was happening at a certain time in the past is put in the past continuous tense. Here is the form: subject + was/were + main verb + ing + extension.

B. Use the past continuous form of the verbs in the following sentences:

The sun (shine) when we went out.
When you came, I (write).
My brother asked me, "Why didn't you receive my call?" "I (sleep) then".
When the teacher came to the class, all students (stand) up.
The bus started while some passengers (get) on.
The boy took another piece of cake when the mother (not look).
The teacher asked his students, "Why (make) a noise in the class?"
We (have) dinner when electricity went off.
The boy jumped off the train while it (move).
Who (talk) there when I knocked at the door? "I (call) my sister."

C. Use the correct forms of verbs in the blanks of the following sentences:

It ________ heavily outside when I _______ .
Where _________ when I ________ you?
When my elder _______my father _________.
Our grandma ______ with us when we _____ in our village.
Everybody _______ until the fire accident occurred.

D. Now write five sentences using the following pairs of verbs from the box. One is done for you using hear and pass by. I heard the noise when a train was passing by.

Call and respond, ring and watch, stop and come, cook and go off, start and (not rain)