Put the verbs into the correct form (past progressive).

1.

When I phoned my friends, they (play)

monopoly.

2.

Yesterday at six I (prepare)

3.

The kids (play)

4.

I (practise)

5.

We (not / cycle)

6.

While Aaron (work)

7.

I tried to tell them the truth but they (listen / not)

8.

What (you / do)

9.

Most of the time we (sit)

dinner.
in the garden when it suddenly began to rain.
the guitar when he came home.
all day.
in his room, his friends (swim)

in the pool.

yesterday?
in the park.

Put the verbs into the correct form (present perfect simple).
1.

I (not / work)

2.

We (buy)

3.

We (not / plan)

4.

Where (be / you)

5.

He (write)

6.

She (not / see)

7.

(be / you)

8.

School (not / start)

9.

(speak / he)

10.

No, he (have / not)

today.
a new lamp.
our holiday yet.
?
five letters.
him for a long time.
at school?
yet.
to his boss?
the time yet.

Put the verbs into the correct form (present perfect progressive).
1.

He (work)

in this company since 1985.

2.

I (wait)

3.

Mary (live)

4.

Why is he so tired? He (play)

5.

How long (learn / you)

6.

We (look for)

7.

I (live)

8.

The film (run / not)

for you since two o'clock.

in Germany since 1992.
tennis for five hours.
English?
the motorway for more than an hour.
without electricity for two weeks.
for ten minutes yet, but there's a commercial break already.

9.

How long (work / she)

10.

She (not / be)

in the garden?
in the garden for more than an hour.

Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect simple).
1.

The storm destroyed the sandcastle that we (build)

2.

He (not / be)

3.

When she went out to play, she (do / already)

4.

My brother ate all of the cake that our mum (make)

5.

The doctor took off the plaster that he (put on)

6.

The waiter brought a drink that I (not / order)

7.

I could not remember the poem we (learn)

8.

The children collected the chestnuts that (fall)

9.

(he / phone)

10.

She (not / ride)

to Cape Town before 1997.

her homework.
.
six weeks before.
.
the week before.
from the tree.

Angie before he went to see her in London?

a horse before that day.

Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect progressive).
1.

We (sleep)

for 12 hours when he woke us up.

2.

They (wait)

3.

We (look for)

her ring for two hours and then we found it in the bathroom.

4.

I (not / walk)

for a long time, when it suddenly began to rain.

5.

How long (learn / she)

6.

Frank Sinatra caught the flu because he (sing)

7.

He (drive)

8.

They were very tired in the evening because they (help)

9.

I (not / work)

all day; so I wasn't tired and went to the disco at night.

10.

They (cycle)

all day so their legs were sore in the evening.

at the station for 90 minutes when the train finally arrived.

English before she went to London?

in the rain too long.

less than an hour when he ran out of petrol.

on the farm all day.