The document provides examples to practice using the past simple and past progressive tenses in Spanish. It contains 20 sentences with blanks to be filled in with the appropriate form of either the past simple or past progressive verb. The sentences cover a variety of common situations involving actions that were ongoing or completed in the past.

1. Past Simple or Past Progressive
Completa las oraciones con Pasdo Simple o Pasado Continuo:
1) We ________________(play) basketball in the street when the rain ___________ (start).
2) The police ________________ (not / catch) the thief last night.
3) When my mom ________________ (call) me , I ________________ a book.(read)
4) I last ________________ (see) Tom on Monday.
5) I ________________ to music yesterday at this time.(not / listen)
6) He ________________ (not / sleep) when the telephone ________________ (ring).
7) I ________________ (see) lions and many other wild animals at the zoo.
8) I________________ (read) two interesting books last month.
9) While my sister ________________ (study), my mother ________________ (watch) TV.
10) I ________________ (miss) the school bus.
11) What ________________ (you / do) with Sarah around this time last night?
12) I ________________ (have) two difficult exams last week at school.
13) We _________ (not / go) on vacation last summer.
14) The students ________________ (not play) football in the class when the teacher
________________ in (come).
15) She ________________ (talk) on the phone when she ______________ (crash) the car.

2. Completa las oraciones con las palabras en paréntesis usando PASADO
SIMPLE o PASADO PROGRESIVO:
1. Christine ______________________ (eat) dinner last night when you
______________________ (knock) on the door.
2. I ______________________ (begin) to study at nine last night and I
______________________ (still / study) at eleven.
3. When Jack ______________________ (drop by) to visit me, I______________________
(have) dinner.
4. Did your parents call you last night while you _______________________ (watch) TV?
5. When Sam ______________________ (finish) his assignment I
______________________ (talk) to my friend on the phone.
6. Yesterday Alicia and Gaby ______________________ (go) to the cinema; yet, I stayed at
home to finish my project.
7. As we ______________________ (travel) from Paris to Brussels we
______________________ (stop) at a nice restaurant to eat.
8. While I ______________________ (try) to repair the leaking roof, I
______________________ (fall) down.
9. My brother ______________________ (be born) in Lisbon in 1986.
10. I ______________________ (graduate) from Oxford in 1997.
Past Simple or Past Progressive

3. Completa los espacios con la forma correcta, el PASADO SIMPLE o el PASADO PROGRESIVO:
1. We ___________________________ (play) volleyball with Mary, when you
___________________________(call).
2. When the teacher ___________________________(come) in, they
___________________________ (study) English.
3. The baby ___________________________ (sleep) when the telephone
___________________________(ring).
4. As I ___________________________ (walk) in the streets of Holland, I
___________________________ (meet) an old friend of mine.
5. I ___________________________ (lose) my car keys.
6. I was looking for my purse when I ___________________________ (drop) my credit card.
7. My uncle ___________________________ (take) me to the airport yesterday.
8. She ___________________________ (dance) when she hurt her ankle.
9. It ___________________________ (rain) heavily when I got up.
10. I ___________________________ (see) the thief while he (get) into my neighbor’s house.
Past Simple or Past Progressive
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