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Past Tenses Together

Exercise 1. 

Fill in the gaps using the correct form of the words in brackets.Use the Past, Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous. 

Write down your answers on a piece of paper and then click 'check answers'.

Jessika 1.________(have) a great day last week. She 2._______ (get) home from work and 3._________ (start) playing with her three-year-old son. While she 4.___________ (play) with him, her husband 5._______ (come) home and 6.__________ (start) cooking dinner. While they 7._________ (have) dinner, Jessika 8._________ (tell) her husband that she 9.___________ (buy) a lottery ticket. Her husband told her that he 10.___________ (talk) to clients all day. Jessika decided to check the lottery numbers on her phone, she 11.________ (look) at her phone, 12.________(look) at her husband, 13._______ (look) at her phone, 14.________ (look) at her husband and 15.__________ (scream). She 16.__________ (win)!

Exercise 2.

Fill in the gaps using the correct form of the words in brackets.Use the Past, Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous. 

Write down your answers on a piece of paper and then click 'check answers'.

Chris 1.________ (have) a very strange day yesterday. He 2.__________ (watch) TV when his friend 3.________ (call) him and asked him to meet him at the park in an hour. When Chris 4.________ (arrive) he 5._______ (see) that his friend was covered in mud. Chris asked him what 6.__________ (happen). His friend said he 7.____________ (fall) over in the forest running away from a man in a blue hat with a knife. Chris asked why the man 8.________ (chase) him with a knife and his friend said he 9._______ (not know). Then, Chris looked at the entrance of the park and 10.______ (see) a man wearing a blue hat…

Exercise 3.

Fill in the gaps using the correct form of the words in brackets.Use the Past, Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous. 

Write down your answers on a piece of paper and then click 'check answers'. 

Mark: Aright, Tom?
Tom : Yes, all good thanks. And you?
M: Not too bad.
1.___________ (you, go) to work yesterday?
T: Yes, I did. Why?
M:
2.___________(Sarah, call) you? She said she had something she wanted to ask you.
T: She
3.___________(call) while I 4.______________(talk) to my boss so I 5.____________(not can) answer. But, I rang her back. She 6.____________ (want) to know if I wanted to go to the cinema at the weekend.
M: What
7.____________ (you say)?
T: I told her I
8._____________(already, make) plans with my brother. We’re going to see an art exhibition this Saturday. He 9.___________ (ask) me to go for months, so I eventually said yes. Unfortunately, it’s the same day Sarah wants go to the cinema. What 10.___________ (you do) last night at 8 pm? I 11.__________ (call) you but you 12.____________ (not answer).

M: I 13.________________ (help) my son with his homework.

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