Now write sentences saying what she was doing at these times: 1. At 9 o'clock she was having breakfast. 2. At 9.30 she... 3. At 11 o'clock... 4. At 1 o'clock... 5. At 3 o'clock... 6. At 5 o'clock... A group of people were staying in a hotel. One evening the fire alarm rang. Use the words in brackets to make sentences saying what each person was doing at the time. Example: (Don / have / a bath) Don was having a bath. 1. (Ann / write / a letter in her room) Ann... 2. (George / get / ready to go out) George... 3. (Carol and Dennis / have / dinner) Carol and Dennis... 4. (Tom / make / a phone call) Tom... Make sentences from the words in brackets. Put the verbs into the correct form, past simple (I did) or past continuous (I was doing). Example: (I / fall / asleep when I / watch / television) I fell asleep when I was watching television. (the phone / ring / when I / have / a shower) The phone... (it / begin / to rain when I / walk / home)... (we / see / an accident when we / wait / for the bus)...
Answer (1)
Let's complete the sentences and make them more informative by describing what she and the group of people were doing at specific times.
Completion of Sentences
At 9 o'clock she was having breakfast.
At 9.30 she was reading a book.
At 11 o'clock she was attending an online class.
At 1 o'clock she was having lunch with her friends.
At 3 o'clock she was doing her homework.
At 5 o'clock she was watching a movie.
Group of People at the Hotel
Here we use the past continuous tense to describe what each person was doing when the fire alarm rang.
(Ann / write / a letter in her room)
Ann was writing a letter in her room.
(George / get / ready to go out)
George was getting ready to go out.
(Carol and Dennis / have / dinner)
Carol and Dennis were having dinner.
(Tom / make / a phone call)
Tom was making a phone call.
Sentences Using Past Simple and Past Continuous
(the phone / ring / when I / have / a shower)
The phone rang when I was having a shower.
(it / begin / to rain when I / walk / home)
It began to rain when I was walking home.
(we / see / an accident when we / wait / for the bus)
We saw an accident when we were waiting for the bus.
Each sentence uses the past continuous to describe an ongoing action that was interrupted by another action in the past, described using the past simple tense. Understanding the use of these tenses helps create vivid and clear stories or reports of past events.
