Examen past simple and past continuous

Ejercicio past simple negative
past simple cuestions
past simple o past continuous
completa las frases past simple and continuous


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1. Look for the irregular verbs in the text, and make a list with them and traslate and say infinitive and participle.

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was the man who brought kung fu to the West with his famous film Enter the Dragon.

Although Bruce Lee was born in Chinatown in San Francisco in 1940, his parents soon moved back to Hong Kong. Unfortunately, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Hong Kong shortly afterwards but the family survived.

His father Lee Hoi Chuon was a famous Cantonese opera singer and actor and his mother Grace was a wealthy aristocrat from Hong Kong. In 1957 Lee fought and won the Hong Kong high school boxing championship and then became the Hong Kong cha cha cha champion for 1958.

At the age of 18, he returned to the United States where his sister and brother lived. He studied drama and philosophy at the University of Washington in Seattle. Then he opened his first martial arts school where he taught his friends Jun Fan Gung Fu.

Bruce Lee then had the original idea behind the very famous TV series Kung Fu but Warner Bros. decided not to have a  Chinese person as the star of the series. As a result, Bruce and wife and children caught a plane to Hong Kong.

Back in Hong Kong, Bruce immediately made three very successful films with director Raymond Chow called The Big Boss, Fist of Fury and The Way of the Dragon. There is a very famous fight scene in The Way of the Dragon with Chuck Norris filmed in the Colosseum in Rome where the gladiators fought. His last film was Enter the Dragon and was also a huge hit. The movie has made more than 200 million US dollars.

Bruce Lee was a philosopher as well as a fighter and wrote a lot of books. He believed that all knowlegde eventually became self-knowledge.

2. Fill in the blanks with the correct tense (simple past or past progressive). 

1. While I  TV, the doorbell . (watch/ring)

2. Jack  his presentation when the fire alarm . (finish/start)

3. Just as I  my front door, a cat  inside. (open/run)

4. My mom  me while I  dinner. (telephone/eat)

5. While I  to work, I  an accident. (walk/witness)

6. When the mailman , I  my exercises. (come/do)

7. When I , my alarm clock . (wake up/ring)

8. Peter  me while I  on the train. (phone/sit)

9. While I  out the window, it  to rain. (look/start)

10. As I  the building, a police car  through the gate. (leave/drive)
1. While the forest ranger  in the woods, a fire . (walk/start)

2. A murder of crows  by while the farmer  a scarecrow. (fly/build)

3. While I  my clothes, I  my favourite shirt was gone. (unpack/realize)

4. While I  down the stairs, I  the phone ring. (run/hear)

5. When her husband  Sally  dinner. (arrive/cook)

6. There  an earthquake while Jeff  to work. (be/drive)

7. Just as Frank  his homework, he  another assignment he had to do. (finish/remember)

8. My husband  the dishes when I finally  back home. (wash/come)

9. Someone  Simon's picture while he  on a bench. (take/sit)

10. Ted  about the previous day when I  into the room. (think/come)

ejercicio past simple o continuous de elegir


3. Make questión to the next answers:
1. You WENT out of the house at five o'clock.
2. Two days ago Tina PLAYED the drums
3.I WAS WAITING for the bus.
4.She WAS WEARING a black dress
5. She FLEW an aeroplane. 6. I MET my friends in the street yesterday.7.At twenty-five to two, they WERE EATING hamburgers.8. I WAS CARRYING a purple bag
4. Write in negative form the sentences of exercise 3.

5. Complete with comparative o superlative.

This garden is  than that one (beautiful).

Argentina is  than Colombia, but Brazil is  country in South America (big).

Today is  day of the year (good).
Mercury is  planet in the Solar System (hot).
I am  than my sister, but dad is  person in our family (tall).
Snakes and lizards are  than foxes (slow).
I think my English is getting  (good) but my Spanish is getting  (bad).
My mum's car isn't very fast. She wants a  one.
Madrid is  city in Spain (large).
Sharks are  animals in the sea (dangerous).
ejercicio de comparativo y superlativo