Easy English at Home Practice Files

1. Practice File_ Past Continuous Tense
Part I. Watch the video and complete the stories:
Note: Here we used Past Continuous to talk about events that were going on for a short time in the past.
(an action in progress at a specific moment in the past)
Part II. Watch the video and complete the chart:
Form: + / - / ? ----forms
Part II. Watch the video and answer the questions:
1. What were you doing at 7 am? _____________________________________________
2. What were you doing at 9 am? _____________________________________________
3. What about at 1pm? ____________________________________________________
4. Where were you? What were you doing at 6pm? _____________________________
5. What were you doing at 10pm? ____________________________________________
we/you /they
He/she/it/ I
Subject Verb + ing ?
My mother_________ this photo last year. I ___________ for
a big audience that day. It _________ the most exciting
moment of my life.
I ______ two years old and I _____________in the snow.It
was a special moment in my life because _____________
snowy weather for the first time.
It was 5 years ago. We _____________ to Los Angeles. We
____________ but hitchhiking.

2. 6. What about at 11pm? ____________________________________________________
Part III. Watch the video and decide if the sentences are true or false:
1. It was raining a lot at this time yesterday.
2. He was driving to school at 10 am yesterday.
3. They were sunbathing on the beach.
4. He was fixing the car.
5. She was cooking dinner for the family.
6. She was doing plates.
7. We were having a birthday party .
New words:
1. experience: knowledge that you get from doing a job, or from doing, seeing, or feeling something:
2. Hitchhike: to get free rides in people's vehicles by standing next to the road and waiting for
someone to pick you up
3. Audience: the people who sit and watch a performance at a theatre, cinema, etc
Write sentences below with the words above:
1. ________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________