Simple Past and Past Continuous

Identify the simple past tense in the following sentence: 'She ate her lunch at 1 o'clock.'

• eating

• eaten

• ate

• eats

Form the past continuous tense of the verb in brackets: 'I (read) a book when the phone rang.'

• reading

• readed

• was read

• was reading

Differentiate between simple past and past continuous: 'I played football when it started raining.' Is this simple past or past continuous?

• Future perfect

• Present continuous

• Simple past

• Past perfect

Conjugate the irregular verb 'go' in simple past for the pronoun 'he'.

• goed

• gone

• goed

• went

Identify the simple past tense in the following sentence: 'They visited their grandparents last weekend.'

• sleeping

• eating

• running

• visited

Form the past continuous tense of the verb in brackets: 'She (cook) dinner while her husband was watching TV.'

• was cook

• was cooking

• cooked

• cooks

Differentiate between simple past and past continuous: 'I was reading a book when she called me.' Is this simple past or past continuous?

• Future continuous

• Present perfect

• Simple present

• Past continuous

Conjugate the irregular verb 'eat' in simple past for the pronoun 'we'.

• eated

• ate

• eateded

• eat

Identify the simple past tense in the following sentence: 'He ran the marathon in under 3 hours.'

• jumped

• ran

• swam

• running

Form the past continuous tense of the verb in brackets: 'They (play) basketball when it started to rain.'

• were playing

• was playing

• were play

• played