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UNIT
EXERCISES

6.1 Complete the sentences using these pairs of verbs. Use the past simple in one space and the past
continuous in the other. (A & B)
arrive/get go/get meet/work look/slip wait/order ski/break
1 Just as I .пю.&Фт.. into the bath the fire alarm .we**. ff
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2 Helen her leg while she in Switzerland.
3 We when I in a music shop.
4 When his mother in the other direction Steve away quietly.
5 I a drink while I for Pam to arrive.
6 Our guests were early.
They as I changed.

This time, use the same tense in both spaces. (B)

close/sit come/put not concentrate/think shut/start take/place write/drive
7 She the door and down quickly.
8 I the windows as soon as it to rain.
9 I'm sorry, I I about Jim.
10 It was an amazing coincidence. Just as I to Anne, she to my house to come and
see me.
11 When the taxi I my suitcase on the back seat.
12 He the cake out of the oven and it carefully on the table.
6.2 Look at the past continuous verbs you wrote in 6.1:1-6. Which of these could also be in the past
simple? What difference in meaning, if any, would there be? (А, В & С)

6.3 Complete the sentences with one of these verbs: be, enjoy, have, live. Use the same verb for each
sentence in the pair. In one, you can use only the past simple; in the other you can use either the
past simple or the past continuous. (C)
1 a It was now getting late, and my eyes trouble focusing on the birds in the
disappearing light,
b I trouble with that car the whole of the time I owned it.
2 a As a historian, I'm interested in how people in the past.
b During that hard winter, people by selling what few remaining possessions they had.
3 a She very good at talking to children in a way that kept them entertained.
b Before the party, the children got very excited and naughty.
4 a He learning Japanese until the class had a new teacher.
b Even when he was young, Jonathan learning languages.
6.4 Correct the sentences if necessary or put a S. (D)

1 Whenever I called in on Sam, he talked on the phone.
2 When I lived in Paris, I was spending three hours a day travelling to and from work.
3 Peterson was winning the tournament four times before he retired.
4 We were having to play netball twice a week when I went to school.
5 The weather was so good last summer that we went to the beach most weekends.
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