Past simple or past continuous

In these sentences we can find:

I met my wife in 1983.

We went to Spain for our holidays.

They got home very late last night.

• Past simple tense

• Past perfect tense

• Past continuous tense

In these sentences we can find:

I had finished the work.

She had gone.

She didn't want to move. She had been living in Liverpool all her life.

• past simple

• past continuous

• past perfect

Past simple:

Pablo Picasso ....... an Italian painter who died in 1929.

• is

• were

• was

Mike ....... in the kitchen and ....... a pizza.

• stood, ate

• was standing, ate

• was standing, was eating

What .......... at 8 o'clock yesterday evening.

• did you do

• were you doing

• had doing

I ......... a jacket this morning when I ........ out.

• weared, went

• was wearing, went

• wore , went

The referee ........ the match because it ....... .

• stopped, snowing

• stopped, was snowing

• stops, was snowed

The motorcyclist ....... his helmet and ......... the motorbike.

• put on, got on

• put away, got on

• put, was getting

She ....... her leg while she ........... .

• was broking, went skiing

• to broke, to go skiing

• broke, was skiing

Ralf ........ , ........ a shower, ....... dressed and ....... the house.

• had getting up, had, got, left

• got up, had, got, was leaving

• got up, had, got, left