Past (Simple/Continuous/Perfect) Solutions intermediate Unit 1

Complete the sentences with the words in brackets. Use past simple/past perfect/past continuous:

Megan _____ (not know) about Rob and Mary’s party because they _____ (not tell) her.

• didn’t know,

  didn’t tell

• didn’t know,

  hadn’t told

• didn’t know,

  didn’t told

• hadn’t known,

  hadn’t told

Complete the sentences with the words in brackets. Use past simple/past perfect/past continuous:

Sorry! _________ (you / sleep) when I _________ (ring)?

• Were you sleeping,

  rung

• Were you sleeping,

  rang

• Were you sleep,

  rang

• Were you sleeping,

  had rung

Complete the sentences with the words in brackets. Use past simple/past perfect/past continuous:

We _______ (feel) very hungry because we ______ (not eat) eaten anything all day

• felt,

  hadn’t eaten

• was feeling,

  hadn’t eaten

• felt,

  hadn’t ate

• felt,

  weren't eating

Complete the sentences with the words in brackets. Use past simple/past perfect/past continuous:

Danny _______ (live) in America when he _______ (get) engaged

• had lived,

  got

• lived,

  had got

• was living,

  had got

• was living,

  got

Complete the sentences with the words in brackets. Use past simple/past perfect/past continuous:

No, we _______ (not talk) about you when you _______ (come) in.

• weren’t talking,

  came

• didn’t talk,

  came

• weren’t talking,

  had came

• hadn’t talked,

  came

Choose the correct answers to complete the sentences:

Sarah and Chi-Hung met and got engaged when they

• had both lived in Shanghai.

• were both living in Shanghai.

Choose the correct answers to complete the sentences.

Lucy and Johan decided to start a family soon after

• they’d got married.

• they were getting married.

Choose the correct answers to complete the sentences:

What were you doing

• when I’d come home?

• when I came home?

Choose the correct answers to complete the sentences:

I was born in Bangkok while

• my parents were living in Thailand.

• my parents had lived in Thailand.

Choose the correct answers to complete the sentences:

Robbie met his future wife when

• they were sitting on a train.

• they’d sat on a train.