3 INSPIRed 2
Grammar EXTRA!
Past progressive
1 Complete the chart with the correct past form of be.
I was using my cell phone
You listening to music
He laughing
at 8:00 p.m.
She eating a sandwich
We watching TV
They playing computer games
Now make the sentences negative. Now make questions.
I wasn’t using my cell phone at 8:00 p.m. Were you using your cell phone at 8:00 p.m.?
2 Write questions using the prompts. 4 Complete the sentences with the past progressive
form of the verbs in parentheses.
you / watch him?
1 Gerrit (walk) to school
Were you watching him?
when he saw a ball of light in the sky.
1 you / talk?
2 They (wait) for a bus
2 they / laugh? when the car crashed.
3 Lara and Emma (dance) at
3 she / take pictures? 8 p.m.
4 Ann Hodges (not / feel
4 you / read? well) when a rock crashed through the roof of her
house.
5 he / walk to school? 5 What Ryan and his friend
(do) when the weather got worse?
6 Ryan
3 Complete the answers to the questions in exercise 2. (use) his phone when the
1 No, I . boat hit the rock?
2 Yes, they . 7 Ryan and his friend
3 Yes, she . (not laugh) after their boat sank.
4 No, we .
5 No, he .
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