2. Read the following sentences and put the verbs in brackets in either the Past Simple or the
Past Continuous (Conjugue les verbes entre parentheses au prétérit simple ou au prétérit continu).
a) As Sophie
(walk) up Regent Street she
(meet) an old friend from college.
b) When
(father/arrive) yesterday?
Не
(arrive) late. The train
(be)delayed due to an accident.
c) Who..
(you/ speak) to on the phone when I
(come)in?
d) Mary
(read) in bed when she
(hear) a strange noise downstairs.
e) When Mr. Lawrence
(leave) home at 8.30 this morning, the sun
(shine)
brightly. However, by 10 o'clock it
(rain) heavily.
f) Sebastian
(arrive) at Susan's house a little before 11 a.m., but she
(not/be) there. She
(study) at the library.
g) The fireman
(rescue) a 75-year-old woman who
(be) trapped on the
second floor of the burning building.
h)
(you/do) any shopping yesterday?
i) Yesterday Jane
(fall) and
(hurt) herself when she
(ride) her bicycle.
j) What
(Peter / do) when you
(knock) on his door?
k) Helen
(wear) her dress to the party last night.
