WorksheetsPast Simple or Past Progressive?
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
The two bears (to walk) on the grass when a bee came to them.
Was walking
Were walked
Were walking
Walk
The Crane was hunting the fish when the crow (to steal) one.
Stealed
Was stealing
Was stolen
Stole
The snow (to fall) all winter.
falled
fell
was falling
was fallen
The everything-maker (to make) all things on Earth.
made
make
maked
maden
The crow black after he fell in the ashes.
(a)
The Ancestors (to sleep) when the Rainbow Serpent (to awake)
were sleeping / awoke
was sleeping / awoke
slept / awoken
slept / were awaking
The past progressive is used :
To express a long action
To put context in the past
To describe a short action in the past.
To describe an action ongoing now as I am talking.
The past simple (preterit) is used :
To express a short action in the past.
To express an action that happened in the past and is finished.
To describe a long action in the past.
To express the future.
The past progressive is composed:
BE (WAS/WERE) + Past Participle
HAVE (HAS/HAVE) + Past Participle
BE (WAS/WERE) + V-ING
BE (IS/ARE) + PAST PARTICIPLE
Which tense do we have :
The White Bear was walking down the valley when the Brown Bear called him.
Past Progressive + Past Simple
Present Perfect + Past Simple
Past Simple + Present Perfect
Present Progressive + Past Simple
