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Past simple / Past continuous

I was (be) with some friends and we _______________ (run) in a race. It was a

marathon. There _____________ (be) hundreds of runners around us, men and

women, and it _____________ (be) extremely hot. As we _____________ (cross) a

bridge over a river, I suddenly _____________ (notice) that everyone in the race

_______________ (have) the same face, even my friends! They were all the same

erson! I _____________ (want) tosto, but there ______________ (be) so many

eole behind me that I _______________ (have to) ee running. Then I _______

__________ (wae u) screaming.

It was imossible for me to concentrate! I went to my bedroom and my mother

_________________________ (clean) the caret with the vacuum cleaner.

Then I went to the living room but my brother "aul _______________________ (sit)

on the sofa. #e ____________ (lay) his guitar. After that I decided to go to the

itchen. There, my grandmother _________________________ (coo) and she

___________ also ____________________ (watch) T$. %inally, I went out to the

garden where I found my sister. &he __________________ (listen) 'alman and

she ___________________(sing) at the to of her voice.

. I __________ (see) &ue in town yesterday but she __________ (loo)

the other way.

. I __________ (meet) Tom and Ann at the airort a few wees ago. They

__________ (go) to *erlin and I __________ (go) to +adrid. 'e __________ (have)

a chat while we were waitingwaited (wait) for our flights.

-. I __________ (cycle) home yesterday when suddenly a man __________ (ste)

out into the road in front of me. I __________ (go) uite fast but lucily I __________

(manage) to sto in time and __________ (nothit) him.

/. 0ane __________ (wait) for me when I __________ (arrive).

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1. 'hat __________ (youdo) this time yesterday2

I was aslee.

3. 4id __________ (you go) out last night2

5o, I was too tired.

6. 'as 7arol at the arty last night2

8es, she __________ (wear) a really nice dress.

9. #ow fast __________ (you drive) when the accident __________ (haen)2

I _____________ (buy) a new alarm cloc one day in Twinle:s, when I

_____________ (see) somebody sholifting. I:d ;ust finished aying for my cloc as I_____________ (turn) round, an elderly woman _____________ (slowly ut) a silver

ashtray into her bag that she _____________ (carry). Then she _____________

(wal) over to another art of the sho and _____________ (ic u) an exensive