Past simple and continuous : exercices de grammaire A2

4 exercices de niveau A2 (Grammaire) sur « Past simple and continuous », avec corrigés. Faites chaque activité et vérifiez tout de suite. Gratuit, sans compte.

CompétenceGrammaire
NiveauA2 Élémentaire
Exercices4
Trous18
Thème22 sur 76

Avant de commencer. Le past continuous (was/were + -ing) décrit une action en cours à un moment du passé : At 8 pm I was cooking. Past simple et past continuous : comment ça marche

Exercice 1. Choose the correct tense.

  • Last year, some friends and I 1) went / were going to Brazil for three weeks. While we 2) stayed / were staying in Rio de Janeiro, an unusual thing 3) happened / was happening. The sun 4) shone / was shining one morning, so we 5) decided / were deciding to go to the beach. Next to us on the beach, a group of boys 6) played / were playing football. One of them 7) came / was coming over to us and 8) suggested / was suggesting a football match: Brazil versus England. Maybe it was because one of my friends 9) wore / was wearing an England T-shirt. Anyway, we 10) agreed / were agreeing. In the end, we 11) lost / were losing the game, but we all 12) enjoyed / were enjoying our international football match against Brazil!

Exercice 2. Find seven more errors in this text and write the correct words.

  • In 1980, a 23-year-old athlete from New York called Rosie Ruiz was the first woman to cross the finish line in the Boston Marathon. Her time were was very fast – just over two and a half hours – but almost immediately, the officials begin to think something was wrong. Nobody remembered seeing Rosie during the race and she not appear on videos of the runners while they was running. While the officials were investigating, two students were giving them important information. The students was watching the runners from the side of the road when Rosie suddenly appeared from the crowd. In fact, Rosie didn’t won the race. She only crossed the finish line first because she didn’t ran the course!

Exercice 3. Complete the sentences with the correct verb forms: one past simple and one past continuous.

12 blancs
  • 1
    My uncle (break) his nose when he (play) baseball.
  • 2
    The students (not hear) the instructions because they (not listen) to their teacher.
  • 3
    My mum (drop) her money when she (run) for the bus.
  • 4
    You (not wear) glasses when I (meet) you at the party.
  • 5
    It (rain) when I (leave) the house this morning.
  • 6
    My little brother (eat) three biscuits while our mum (not look).

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Exercice 4. Challenge!

6 blancs
a boy
the sun
two cats
a man
a girl
two women		shine
chat on the phone
cycle
have a coffee
fight
read a magazine
  • Look at the picture and match the nouns and verbs in the box. Then write a description of the picture using the past continuous.
  • At eleven o’clock yesterday morning, the sun was shining.
  • A boy
Exercice 4: Challenge!

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