5. Thanslate the following sentences.

1. Вчора ввечері йшов дощ, тому я залишився вдома. 2. Він телефонував мені, коли ми вечеряли. 3. Сонце сідало за гори, коли я підійшов до села. 4. Я сиділа біля вікна, коли раптом почула чиїсь голоси. 5. Я глянув на Мері, яка все ще тремтіла від холоду. 6. Ми розмовляли про Джиммі, коли він вбіг до кімнати. 7. Увійшовши до будинку, вона побачила чоловіка, який намагався відкрити двері силою. 8.Коли я повернувся, Том лежав на канапі і розмовляв по телефону. 9. Поліція спіймала Дена, коли він грабував крамницю. 10. Лило як з відра, коли ми проходили вздовж вашого будинку.

6*. Put in Past Indefinite (I did) / Past Continuous (I was doing). Note where both forms are possible.

Tug-of-war with a hedgehog

Mrs. May, our District Nurse, (to drive)was driving home at 3 a.m. one night after an urgent visit to a sick patient. She ………. (to drive) along a deserted country lane, when she ………. (to see) a new kind of animal. She ………. (to stop) her car and ………. (to get out). The animal ………. (to be) clearly visible in the blaze of her headlights. It ………. (to look) like a hedgehog with a tall white hat. It ………. (to cross) the road without paying any attention to Mrs. May. When Mrs. May ……… (to go) close to it, she (to notice) ………. that there was a plastic yoghurt pot on the hedgehog’s head. The poor creature had got its head stuck in the plastic pot! Her instincts as a nurse ………. (to tell) her she would have to rescue it, so she ………. (to pull) at the pot, but the hedgehog ………. (to pull), too. After a struggle, she ………. (to pull) the pot off the hedgehog’s head. Mrs. May ………. (to think) the hedgehog ……… (to look) rather sad, when she ………. (to notice) that the pot was half full of strawberry yoghurt. She ………. (to give) it back to the hedgehog. The creature ………. (to seize) it, ………. (to put) it on its head again, and triumphantly ………. (to continue) its journey across the road.

Revision Test on Past Indefinite / Past Continuous

Choose the correct variant.

1. Why _____ she _____ so sad when we _____ her?

a) was … looking, saw b) was … looking, were seeing

2. The Smiths _____ to the country every Sunday.

a) were going b) went

3. It _____ all day yesterday.

a) rained b) was raining

4. What _____ you _____ when I _____ in the garden?

a) were … doing, worked b) were … doing, was working

5. Every day he _____ early in the morning when the sun _____ to shine.

a) was getting up, began b) got up, began

6. I _____ what he _____ .

a) did not understand, was saying b) did not understand, said

7. She _____ at him as she _____ to.

a) was not looking, was not wanting b) was not looking, did not want

8. The moment Bob _____ her, she _____ the street.

a) saw, was crossing b) was seeing, was crossing

9. They often _____ at Bob’s when they _____ to Glasgow.

a) were stopping, were driving b) stopped, were driving

10. Paul _____ Ann _____ at him.

a) thought, laughed b) thought, was laughing

Future Continuous