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    Past Simple, Past Continious

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    1. Peter and Ann decided to redecorate their sitting room themselves. While John visited to see how they were getting on, Ann was mixing paint and Peter was washing down the walls. 2. They began painting but found the walls were too wet. While waiting for them to dry, Ann remembered she had a phone call to make. 3. Just as they started the third wall, the doorbell rang. It was a friend of Peter's who wanted to know if Peter was playing golf the following weekend. He stayed talking to Peter in the hall while Ann went on painting.

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    1. Peter and Ann decided to redecorate their sitting room themselves. While John visited to see how they were getting on, Ann was mixing paint and Peter was washing down the walls. 2. They began painting but found the walls were too wet. While waiting for them to dry, Ann remembered she had a phone call to make. 3. Just as they started the third wall, the doorbell rang. It was a friend of Peter's who wanted to know if Peter was playing golf the following weekend. He stayed talking to Peter in the hall while Ann went on painting.

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    1. Peter and Ann decided to redecorate their sitting room themselves. While John visited to see how they were getting on, Ann was mixing paint and Peter was washing down the walls. 2. They began painting but found the walls were too wet. While waiting for them to dry, Ann remembered she had a phone call to make. 3. Just as they started the third wall, the doorbell rang. It was a friend of Peter's who wanted to know if Peter was playing golf the following weekend. He stayed talking to Peter in the hall while Ann went on painting.

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    Past Simple, Past Continious

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    1. Peter and Ann decided to redecorate their sitting room themselves. While John visited to see how they were getting on, Ann was mixing paint and Peter was washing down the walls. 2. They began painting but found the walls were too wet. While waiting for them to dry, Ann remembered she had a phone call to make. 3. Just as they started the third wall, the doorbell rang. It was a friend of Peter's who wanted to know if Peter was playing golf the following weekend. He stayed talking to Peter in the hall while Ann went on painting.

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    Exercise 1 

    The simple past and the past continuous. Put the verbs in brackets
    into the correct tense: simple past or past continuous.
    1 Peter and Ann (decide) to redecorate their sitting-room themselves. 2 They
    (choose) cream paint for the woodwork and apricot for the walls. 3 When John
    (look) in to see how they (get) on, Ann (mix) the paint, and Peter (wash) down
    the walls. 4 They (be) glad to see John and (ask) if he (do) anything special that
    day. 5 He hastily (reply) he (go) to the theatre and (go) away at once, because
    he (know) they (look) for someone to help them. 6 They (begin) painting, but
    (find) the walls (be) too wet. 7 While they (wait) for the walls to dry, Ann
    (remember) she (have) a phone call to make. 8 Peter (start) painting while she
    (telephone), and (do) a whole wall before Ann (come) back. 9 He (grumble) that
    she always (telephone). 10 Ann (retort) that Peter always (complain). 11 They
    (work) in silence for some time. 12 Just as they (start) the third wall, the
    doorbell (ring). 13 It (be) a friend of Peter’s who "(want) to know if Peter (play)
    golf the following weekend. 14 He (stay) talking to Peter in the hall while Ann
    (go) on painting. 15 At last he (leave). 16 Peter (return), expecting Ann to say
    something about friends who (come) and (waste) valuable time talking about
    golf. 17 But Ann nobly (say) nothing. 18 Then Peter (think) he would do the
    ceiling. 19 He just (climb) the step ladder when the doorbell (ring)
    again. 20 Ann (say) she (get) tired of interruptions but (go) and (open) the
    door. 21 It (be) the postman with a letter from her aunt Mary, saying she (come)
    to spend the weekend with them and (arrive) that evening at 6.30.

    Exercise 2 The simple past and the past continuous. Put the verbs in brackets
    into the simple past or past continous.
    1 I (walk) along Piccadilly when I (realize) that a man with a ginger beard,
    whom I had seen three times already that afternoon, (follow) me. 2 To make
    quite sure, I (walk) on quickly, (turn) right, then left and (stop) suddenly at a
    shop window. 3 In a few minutes the man with the beard (appear) and (stop) at
    another shop window. 4 I (go) on. 5 Whenever I (stop) he (stop), and whenever
    I (look) round he (be) still there. 6 He (look) a very respectable type and (wear)
    very conventional clothes and I (wonder) if he was a policeman or a private
    detective. 7 I (decide) to try and shake him off. 8 A 74 bus (stand) at the bus
    stop just beside me. 9 Then the conductor (come) downstairs and (ring) the bell;
    just as the bus (move) off, I (jump) on it. 10 The man with the beard (miss) the
    bus but (get) into another 74, which (follow) the first. 11 Both buses (crawl)
    very slowly along Knightsbridge. 12 Every time the buses (pull) up at a stop,
    the man (look) out anxiously to see if I (get) off. 13 Finally, at some traffic
    lights, he (change) buses and (get) into mine. 14 At Gloucester Road
    Underground, I (leave) the bus and (buy) a ticket at a ticket machine. 15 As I
    (stand) on the platform waiting for a Circle Line train, my pursuer (come) down
    the stairs. 16 He (carry) a newspaper and when we (get) into the same
    compartment, he (sit) in one corner reading it, and I (read) the
    advertisements. 17 He (look) over the top of the newspaper at every station to
    see if I (get) out. 18 I (become) rather tired of being shadowed like this, so
    finally I (go) and (sit) beside the man and (ask) him why he (follow) me. 19 At
    first he (say) he (not follow) me at all but when I (threaten) to knock him down,
    he (admit) that he was. 20 Then he (tell) me he (be) a writer of detective stories
    and (try) to see if it was difficult to follow someone unseen. 21 I (tell) him he
    hadn’t been unseen because I had noticed him in Piccadilly and I (advise) him
    to shave off his ginger beard if he (not want) his victim to know he (be)
    followed.

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