Past Simple vs Past Continuous

Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous of the verbs and brackets.

While I ______(walk) home from school, I __________(see) a man stealing a car.

Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous of the verbs and brackets.

Last week I ___________(sell) my old car and bought a new one.

Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous of the verbs and brackets.

Peter ________(arrive) home just as I ________(wrap) his present.

Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous of the verbs and brackets.

I _________(wear) a Spiderman costume to the fancy dress party last Friday.

Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous of the verbs and brackets.

I ________ (think) about Jason when suddenly I ________(see) him in the street.

Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous of the verbs and brackets.

David ________(drive) along a narrow mountain road when an animal __________(run) across the road.

Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous of the verbs and brackets.

I___________(study) in London at that time.

Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous of the verbs and brackets.

While Erica ________ (have) a haircut, her sister ________(read) a magazine.

Complete the text with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous of the verbs in brackets.

A Guided Tour of Kerala

Apart from being fascinating, India is such an enormous country that it is almost impossible for tourists to see all of it. So, when I _______         (decide) to travel there, my friend, Sunil Kumar, suggested that I go to Kerala, a state on the tropical coast of southwestern India. He _______         (offer) to be my tour guide because he _________             (stay) in Kerala for a few weeks at the time. On my first day in Kerala we _________      (go) to Cochin, a city with ancient churches and beautiful historical palaces. Our the next stop was the capital of Kerala, Trivandrum. There, we __________         (visit) a famous temple - the name of which I couldn't possible pronounce - and then we _______       (drive) to the Zoological Gardens. As we _________              (walk) through the zoo, huge elephants _______              (pass) by usand I watched them in facsination. Later, we went to a restaurant to have lunch. While we _________               (wait) for our chicken masala and the sun _____              (shine), suddenly it _______         (start) to rain. Sunil said this was very common in tropical parts of the world. We _______       (spend) the next days visiting palaces and eating spicy food. I will never forget my trip to India and the breathtaking beauty of the country.