ON TAP THI TNPT CHIA DONG TU

THE SIMPLE PAST OR THE PAST CONTINUOUS
1.The children were frightened because it (get) ……………. dark.
2.The director didn't allow the actors to travel by air while they (work) ……………. on the
film.
3.He usually wears sandals but when I last saw him he (wear) ………. boots.
4.When I first met him he (study) ……………. painting.
5.When I first met him he (work) in a restaurant.
6.Two men (fight) …………. at a street corner and a policeman (try) …………. to stop them.
7.Tom (sit) ……….in a corner with a book. I told him that he (read) …………. in very bad
light.
8. We (study) ……………in our classroom at 9 o'clock yesterday morning.
9. What …………….you (do) ………….. at 7 p.m last Saturday?
10.He(play) …………….. football at 5 o'clock last Monday afternoon.
11.She (cut)…………… the grass at 4 o'clock last Friday morning.
12.They ( not, listen) …………………to music at 10 a.m yesterday.
13. I (cook)…………………..dinner at 6 o'clock yesterday
14.While we (fish) ……………. someone came to the house and left this note.
15.I (make) ……. a cake when the light went out. I had to finish it in the dark.
16.He (watch) ……………. TV when the phone rang.
17.As I (cross) ……………. the road I (step) on a banana skin and (fall) ……………. heavily.
18.When I (look) ……………. for my passport I (find) ……………. this old photograph.
19.He suddenly (realize) ……………. that he (travel) ……………. in the wrong direction.
20.When I (arrive) …………. at the station Mary (wait) …………. for me.
21.I (see) ……………. you yesterday from the bus. Why you (use) ……………. a stick?22.When I last (see) …………. her she (hurry) …………. along the road to the station. I (ask)
………… her where she (go) ……………. and she (say) ……………., 'London', but I don't
think she (speak) ……………. the truth because there (not be) …………….any train for
London at that time.
23.While I (swim) …………….someone (steal) …………….my clothes and I (have to)
…………….walk home in my swimsuit.
24.I (come) ……………. in very late last night and unfortunately the dog (wake) …………….
up and (start) …………….to bark. This (wake) ……………. my mother who (come)

……………. to the top of the stairs and (say) ……………., 'Who is there?'
I (say) ……………., 'It is me,' but she (not hear) ……………. me because the dog (bark)
……………. so loudly, so she (go) ……………. back to her room and (telephone)
……………. the police.