The document provides examples and exercises to practice using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It gives sample sentences demonstrating how to talk about finished past actions and actions in progress at a specific time in the past. The exercises that follow ask the reader to correct errors, choose the right option in multiple choice questions, write sentences in the negative or interrogative form using given verbs in the past tenses.

1. Laura and Marina

2. We used the past simple to talk about finished
actions in the past.
We used the past continious to describe an
action in progress at a specific moment in the
past.

3. 1.Correct the error
- I watched when the telephone rang.
- Last night I see the TV.
2. Multiple choice.
-She ___ with her friends last night.
a)Stayed
b)Stay
c) Was stay
3. Write a negative past simple sentence with play.

4. 4. Missing word.
- Yesterday I _____ the homeworks in the library. (Do)
- I ________ when he broke his arm. (Play)
- ______ you______ the match last night? (See)
5. Correct the error
I keeped my book in the bag.
Yesterday I don’t do the homeworks.
6. Write a past simple sentence with learn.
7. Write a past continous question with see.