PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

Page 32, Pulse 2

REVISION

Make sure you have watched the YouTube video before studying the following notes.

Open Ended

Write the -ing form of the verbs in the box.

For example: walk - walking

◊ tell

◊ do

◊ lie

◊ get

◊ come

◊ run

EXERCISE 6

Complete Tom's email with past continuous form of verbs in the brackets in the following series of questions.

Multiple Choice

Hi Emma!

Something really strange happened to me today. I (1)_____ (walk) home from school and suddenly lots of apples started falling out of the sky.

• was walking

• were walking

Multiple Choice

I couldn't believe it! It (2) ____ (rain) apples!

• was raining

• were raining

Multiple Choice

Where (3) ____ they ____(come) from?

• was ; coming

• were ; coming

Multiple Choice

I went home and told my mum and brother, but they said I (4) ____ (not tell) the truth.

• was not telling / wasn't telling

• were not telling / weren't telling

Multiple Choice

However, that evening, my mum and dad (5)____ (watch) the news on TV and they heard the story. Nobody knows why the apples fell out of the sky, but they did. I (6) ____ (not lie)!

See you soon,

Tom

• was watching ; was not lying

• was watching ; were not lying

• were watching ; was not lying

• were watching ; were not lying