English tenses: simple past tense, past continuous tense

Past tense and past continuous exercises – test 1, exercise 1

Choose the correct tense.

As the stranger to the station, a car behind him.

My grandma TV. But she books.

When work? I at 6 o'clock.

He and the light.

When I my homework, I dinner.

While we to the news, the telephone .

Kate and it.

As I to work last Friday, a car in front of me.

What when you it?

I on the brakes.

Yesterday Carrol letters from 10 to 11 and then from 5 to 7 again.

We arrived in Cannes at 2.30 and the sun .

People on the beach and big yachts near the harbour.

We our car and to the beach.

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