Past Tenses

When I ___________ (come) home, the kids had been studying all afternoon.

She ____ (listen) to music when I called.

They ____ (picnic) for an hour when we finally came.

Match the following

• Past simple

• Before that journey, he had not swum more than 100 meters at one time.

• Past continuous

• Once he was travelling by 'bikecar' when a speeding car knocked him out of his vehicle.

• Past perfect

• He rode a tandem bike with a friend from Vancouver to Las Vegas in 2011.

Something ___ (occur) to the engine before the plane took off.

Match the following

• I was packing the rucksack.

• While Sophia was making sandwiches...

• as soon as they heard the news.

• The boys cycled home...

• when my friend called.

• She missed her station...

• when I arrived at her house.

• She was talking to a neighbor

• because she had fallen asleep on the station.

• I was listening to my MP3 player...

When he ​ (a)   at the station, three large school groups ​ (b)   ​ to check in.

• arrived
• were waiting
• arrive
• was arriving
• waited
• was waiting

Mr. Hartono ___ (to buy) a new car last year.

While he was watching the football match, his phone ___ (ring).

I was sitting in the park and suddenly I saw an old school friend I ___ (see / not) for 30 years.