Complete the sentences with the correct past simple, past continuous, or past perfect form of the verbs in brackets. (Hoàn thành câu với dạng quá khứ đơn, quá khứ tiếp diễn hoặc quá khứ hoàn thành của động từ trong ngoặc.)

1 My brother _________ (learn) to drive while he _________ (study) at university. 

2 It _________ (snow) all the time that we _________(drive) up to Scotland. 

3 I _________   (grow) up in London, but when I was  sixteen, we _________ (move) to Endinburgh.

4 My sister finally _______________ (get) her first job a year after she  ____________ (leave) university! 

5 My mum _________ (emigrate) to New York, and she _________ (start) a business while she _________ (live) there. 

6 I _________ (meet) my best friend last night. I _________ (not see) her for over a year! 

LEARN THIS! Past tenses 

a We use the past simple for a sequence of events that happened one after the other. 

b We use the past continuous to describe an activity that was in progress at a certain time in the past.

c We use the past simple for a single event that interrupted a longer event in the past. We use the past continuous for the longer event. 

d We use the past perfect for an event that happened before another time in the past.