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1. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.

1. A: I was calling you all afternoon yesterday but you weren`t home.
B: I was studying in the library, with some kids from my class.

2. A: What did Patrick do when Sam told him the Truth?
B: He started shouting at him!

3. A: As I was looking out the window, I saw a car crash into a tree.
B: Did you call the police?

4. A: Why did you take she bus to work this morning?
B: Because as I was driving to the office, my car broke down.

5. A: Did the girls help you with the housework yesterday?
B: Oh, yes! While Anna was vacuuming the carpets, Alice was cleaning the windows.

6. A: Did you know that our dads went to the same school when they were young?
B: Really? I had no idea!

2. Use the past perfect or he pasr perfect continuous to complete the sentences with the appropriate verb from the list below.

1. Tom was very tired. He had been playing football far hours.
2. Susan was very happy because she had won the firts prize in the art competition.
3. Lisa was very upset because she had a horrible nightmare.
4. Peter and Sue were very excited because they had visited a hauted castle.
5. Sam was annoyed because he had been looking for information on Bigfoot for an hour, but couldn`t find anything interesting.
6. Shane had been staring at the woman for quite some time before he realised who she was.

3. Read the sentences and underline the correct item.

1. The girls were watching TV when their mum came home.
2. What did you were you doing at 10 o`clock yesterday morning?
3.Tom had a headache because he hadn`t slept enough the previous night.
4. As Tony was playing computer games, his sister was listening to music.
5. James use to be afraid of the dark when he was a child.
6. Bill had been working as a sales assistant for five years before he became an actor.
7. Ed had never heard about the Loch Ness Monster before he went to Scotland.
8. The secretary had sent on the letters by the time her boss came to work.

4. Use when, before or after to join the sentences, as in the example. Use past tenses.

5. Read the text and choose he correct answer.

Strange but true.

In 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Strangely enough, Morgan Robertson had written a novel, Futility, describing a similar event fourteen years before the Titanik sank, Robertson had called the ship in his book the Titan. In the novel, the best engineers had made the Titan and people believed it was unsinkable. Surprisinly, the Titan also strack an iceberg and sank while it was travelling across the ocean. Both the Titanic and the Titan had been carring a similar number of passengers during their voyage. Also, both ships met with disaster in the month of April. Had Robertson predicted the future, or was it all just a strange considence.

6. Tick the correct sentences.