Exercise 4: Complete the passage with the verbs in past simple or past continuous.

In my last holiday, I went to Hawaii. When I (go) 1………………… to the beach for the first time, something wonderful happened. I (swim) 2……………… in the sea while my mother was sleeping in the sun. My brother was building a castle and my father (drink) 3………………… some water. Suddenly I (see) 4…………………………. a boy on the beach. His eyes were blue like the water in the sea and his hair (be) 5……………… beautiful black. He was very tall and thin and his face was brown. My heart (beat) 6…………………………. fast. I (ask) 7…………………………. him for his name with a shy voice. He (tell) 8…………………………. me that his name was John. He (stay) 9…………………………. with me the whole afternoon. In the evening, we met again. We ate pizza in a restaurant. The following days we (have) 10…………………………. a lot of fun together. At the end of my holidays when I left Hawaii I said good-bye to John. We had tears in our eyes. He wrote to me a letter very soon and I answered him

Complete the sentences with the past simple or the past continuous form of the verbs in brackets

^{Rewrite the sentence into Passive voice}

1. I was taking the class at that time. 

2. He was eating dinner at 9 pm. 

3. My parents were watching that movie.

4. Jon was editing my video yesterday. 

5. Some boys were teasing your sister. 

6. They were discussing something in the class. 

7. Judy was copying the answers.

8. Everyone was hugging the kids at the party. 

9. They were not feeding the cats.

Use the prompts to write sentences with the correct form of have something done. Then match each sentence with rule a or b in the Learn this! box.

1 Olivia / her hair / dye / red / for charity

2 Josh / his bike / steal / at the weekend

3 the house / its roof / blow off / in the storm

4 we / the carpets / clean / after the party last weekend

5 my sister / always / her nails / do / on Fridays

6 she/her visa application / refuse / last month

Mark the better A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word from the four words or phrases (A, B, C or D) choose the one that best completes the sentence

A pet could_________a very special purpose in our life, as a companion

A. build 

B. define 

C. serve 

D. form

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

We must remember what happened in the past so that it will never happen again.

A. If we could remember the past, it would not happen again.

B. Since we all tend to forget what happened in the past we make the same mistakes again.

C. We couldn’t remember what happened in the past so we did it again.

D. In order not to repeat the past, we should certainly not forget what happened then