Worksheetsunit 2 grammar 1: past simple & past continuous
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 11mins
peter ___________ a scary programme at 7 o'clock yesterday
wasn't watching
didn't watch
alfred hitchcock ___________ many remarkable films.
was directing
directed
every year, pat _________ me a mysterious box and we _______ it together
brought........opened
was bringing.....were opening
lara ________ a book of myths while tyler ______ the net.
read.....surfed
was reading......was surfing
______________ the mystery in 1990?
did they solve
were they solving
tom ______ about the bizarre event.
knew
was knowing
the spirit ________ out of the castle, ______ down to the lake and ________.
came....walked....disappeared
was coming....was walking....was disappearing
according to the greek myth, there once (a) (live) a man called hephaetus
one day, while he ____ (work) , zeus _____ (tell) hephaetus to make him a daughter.
(a)
he _______ (listen) to zeus, ________ (make) a beautiful woman and ___________ (name) her pandora.
(a)
zeus (a) (send) pandora to marry epimetheus, who was the brother of prometheus.
prometheus had given the people the gift of fire and zeus (a) (want) to get revenge.
zeus ___ (give) pandora a box and ____(order) her never to open it.
(a)
however, pandora was very curious, so one night while her husband ______ (sleep), she ____ (open) the box and all kinds of terrible things came out: hate, crime, disease....
(a)
when epimetheus ____ (wake up), pandora _____ (cry).
(a)
she ____ (open) the box to show epimetheus it was empty and he ____ (see) a small insect inside.
(a)
'my name is hope,' it said. hope _____ (thank) pandora for opening the box and _____ (fly away) to help the world.
(a)
