Note to teachers: This activity is intended to be used as a review of Grammar 3-1.
Students work in pairs and open the corresponding pages below. Students read their prompts and make good sentences with the past simple and continuous. Their partner can correct their sentences with the answers at the bottom of their page.
Student One Student Two
Make sentences with the following information:
- Interruption: you / call / me Same time: I / check / my email
- Same time: I / walk / to school Same time: You / study
- First: He / tell me / the news Second: I / cry
- Habit I didn't like: My roommate / always / make noise at night
- Same time: I / study / at school Time: 10am
- Interruption: He / bought / a TV Same time: she / work
- Past habit: I / carry / my teddy bear / when I was a child
- First: I / make dinner Second: everybody / eat Third: they / go home
Check your partner's answers:
- I checked my email, I did laundry, and I made lunch.
- She came to school when we were talking.
- We arrived at the restaurant and we saw our friends.
- It was always making me angry.
- I was sleeping at 3am.
- I was playing soccer and you were watching a movie.
- I smoked when I was in university.
- The blizzard started when I was driving home.
Make sentences with the following information:
- First: I / check my email Second: I / do laundry Third: I / make lunch
- Interruption: She / come / to / school Same time: we / talk
- First: We / arrive / at the restaurant Second: we / see our friends
- Habit I didn't like: It / always / make me angry
- Same time: I / sleep Time: 3am
- Same time: I / play / soccer Same time: You / watch a movie
- Past habit: I / smoke / when I was in university
- Interruption: The blizzard / start Same time: I / drive home
Check your partner's answers:
- You called me when I was checking my email.
- I was walking to school and You were studying.
- He told me the news and I cried.
- My roommate was always making noise at night.
- I was studying at 10am.
- He bought a TV while she was working.
- I carried my teddy bear when I was a child.
- I made dinner, everybody ate, and they went home.