PAST TENSES upper intermediate level

When I arrived home mum ..................... dinner

• cooked

• cooks

• was cooking

• were cooking

By the time we ................ the classroom, the teacher had already started teaching a new topic

• were entering

• entered

• had entered

• enter

While I .................... a nap, my sister was reading

• has

• have

• had

• was having

Before having dinner I ............................... a shower

• had already had

• had already has

• have already had

• has already had

First I woke up, then I ...................... breakfast

• had had

• have had

• had

• was having

Jack ................................ an excuse for not doing the homework

• always thought up

• always thinks up

• always think up

• was always thinking up

I ............................... but then I said, No, I can do it

• was going to give it up

• gave it up

• was giving up

• give up

I ................................... that until I read it twice

• had realised

• hadn´t realised

• realised

• realise

We ................................ a documentary for hours

• were watching

• had watched

• had been warching

• watched

I ........................ in Montreal when I was a teenager

• used to live

• would live

• used to lived

• used to living