Past Continuous Tense
Список вопросов теста
Вопрос 1
Find a mistake in one of the fragments:
She was doing (1) the washing up (2), while he watched (3) TV.
Варианты ответов
- washing up
- watched
- was doing
Вопрос 2
How do we form the Past Continuous Tense?
Варианты ответов
- have/ has + been + Ving
- am/is/are + Ving
- was/were + Ving
Вопрос 3
Match the columns to make correct sentences.
1.
while they were playing.
2.
she burnt herself.
3.
when it started raining.
4.
she slipped and fell.
5.
I ran out of petrol.
Варианты ответов
- As she was crossing the street,
- While I was driving home,
- Mr. Robinson was sitting in the garden,
- We were watching the children,
- When Diana was cooking,
Вопрос 4
Make up a sentence using the verb in brackets:
Philip ______ (wash) the car at noon yesterday.
Вопрос 5
Make up the sentence.
Варианты ответов
- What
- were
- you
- doing
- at
- 6 o'clock
- yesterday
- evening
- ?
Вопрос 6
What time markers help us to define the Past Continuous Tense?
Варианты ответов
- while
- at the moment
- at noon yesterday
- the whole night yesterday
- often
- from 7 to 8 yesterday
- for
- last year
Вопрос 7
Write a negative sentence using the verb in brackets.
She _______ (listen) to the teacher at the lesson.
Вопрос 8
Choose all the verbs from the list below.
Варианты ответов
- leaving
- carrying
- boring
- taking
- interesting
- laughing
- a building
- amazing
- answering
Вопрос 9
We use the Past Continuous Tense to talk about:
Варианты ответов
- an action which was in progress at a stated time in the past.
- a complete action in the past.
- the duration of an action which started in the past and continues up to the present.
Вопрос 10
Complete the sentences with the proper tense form of the verb "to be".
1.
am
2.
is
3.
are
4.
was
5.
were
Варианты ответов
- What ________ she doing now?
- Look! I _________ standing on my head.
- There ______ a few houses in the street twenty years ago.
- Four people ________ sitting at the table at the moment.
- The photographer _______ taking pictures at the wedding yesterday morning.


