1) Form the sentences in the Past Simple:

My sister / tidy / her room / yesterday morning.

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We / live / in New York / in 1997.

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Tom / travel / to Dublin / last night.

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I / clean / my teeth / twice / yesterday.

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John / stay / at Mary’s house / last summer.

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You / start / school / ten years ago.

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The film / end / very late / last weekend.

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Sue and Pat / talk / on the phone / yesterday.

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2) Form the sentences in the Past Continuous:

They/take/the exam/yesterday at four.

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I/go to school/when I saw him.

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My geography teacher/drink/coffee/when I arrived.

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Mary and Paul/talk/when the accident happened.

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He/exercise/enough.

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My cousins/drive/to London/to see their friends.

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I/talk/too much/during the dinner.

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She/work/on her project/when I called.

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Mrs. Johnson/make/pizza/on Saturday evening.

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3) Form the sentences in the Past Perfect:

The theater movie/already start/when I arrived.

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The drugstore/closed/before I arrived.

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They/leave/when you came.

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The children/already eat/the cake.

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The game/finish/when I turned on the TV.

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She/go/home/so I didn’t see her.

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My mum/already buy/some fruit.

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Leo/turn on/the washing machine.

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4) Complete the text with either the Past Simple or the Past Continuous form
of the verb.
1. I ____________________ (switch off ) the computer because it ____________________ (make) a
strange noise.

2. My dad ____________________ (listen) to classical music when I ____________________ (arrive)

home from school.
3. We ____________________ (play) video games when my mum , ____________________ (say) ‘Turn
the volume down!’

4. My cousin ____________________ (meet) his wife, Bianca, while he____________________ (live) in

Italy.

5. My little sister ____________________ (draw) a picture while I ____________________ (study) for

my French exam.

6. While they ____________________ (try) to fix the computer, all the lights ____________________
(go out).

7. When we ____________________ (leave) school yesterday, it ____________________ (pour) with

rain.

8. When you ____________________ (see) Paul, he ____________________ (wear) a black jacket?

9. I ____________________ (try) to log on when the WiFi ____________________ (stop) working.

10. While Dad ____________________ (print) an article, the printer ____________________ (run out)
of paper.

When Sammy ___________________ (arrive) home he___________________ (find) three men in his
flat. One of them___________________ (be) Timmy, his best friend. He___________________ (sit) on
the sofa and he___________________ (talk) with Eric. Eric is a funny guy. Sammy and Eric
___________________ (be) classmates in the elementary school. They ___________________ (do) a
lot of things together. The third men ___________________ (be) Craig. Sammy ___________________
(meet) Craig only once. Last year they ___________________ (go) camping together to the mountains.
But why ___________________ (be) they in his flat? And why ______they ___________________
(drink) cocktails in his living room? Sammy ___________________ (want) to ask them these questions
when suddenly he ___________________ (realize) that it ___________________ (be) his birthday.
He ___________________ (not ask) anything, just ___________________ (join) the boys who now
___________________ (laugh) at his surprise.

5) Complete the text with either the Past Simple or the Past Perfect form of the
verb.
1. My mother _____________________ (worry) a lot about me before she _____________________
(hear) that I was safe with my friends.
2. I didn’t like Romania; It _____________________ (be) much smaller than I _____________________
(expect).

3. By the time the firefighters ____________________(arrive) the building

__________________(already / burn) down.

4. They _____________________ (go) to the cinema after they _____________________ (finish) their
dinner.

5. She ______________ just _____________ (enter) the room when the door _____________________
(open) and Jason _____________________ (enter).

6. His mother wanted to know why he _____________________ (not / study) his lessons the previous
day.

7. After he _____________________ (work) for the software company for two years he
_____________________ (decide) to give it up.

8. When I _____________________ (arrive) at the station the train _____________ already

_____________(leave).

9. We _____________________ (live) in Italy before we _____________________ (move) to Spain.

10. By the time the meeting _____________________(finish), they _____________________ (leave) the
room.

6) Complete the text with the Past Simple, the Past Continuous or the Past
Perfect form of the verb.
Until a few years ago, no one _____________________ (hear) of Harry Potter, the young wizard and
hero of the children’s book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The writer, J. K. Rowling,
_____________________ (already / write) several stories and books, but this was the first book that was
published. She _____________________ (get) the idea for the story of a wizard at magic school while
she _____________________ (travel) on a train to London. By the time the train
_____________________ (reach) King’s Cross station, she _____________________ (invent) most of the
characters. When the book was published in 1997, no one _____________________ (imagine) it would
be such a tremendous success, but it quickly _____________________ (become) a bestseller. While
millions of young readers in many countries _____________________ (enjoy) her first Harry Potter
book, J K Rowling _____________________ (think) of ideas for the next book in this incredibly popular
series.
1. had heard 6. had invented 2. had already written 7. imagined 3. got 8. became 4. was travelling 9.
were enjoying 5. reached 10. was thinking