Past Continuous - Positive Forms - Part 5

Fill in the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in the Past Continuous Tense

Two girls ..... lemonade

were

drink

drinking

was

Rule: Past Continuous and Past Simple ShowHide

Past Continuous

was / were + -ing – an action in progress at a moment in the past.

At eight o'clock we were watching a film.
It wasn't raining.
Were your parents watching TV?

Past Simple

A short, finished action, or one action after another.

The doorbell rang.
Jill got up and had breakfast.

Together

A longer action (Past Continuous) is interrupted by a short one (Past Simple).

when + Past Simple: I was doing my homework when the doorbell rang.
while + Past Continuous: While Steve was driving, his phone rang.
Two long actions at the same time: While Mum was cooking, Dad was reading.

was with I / he / she / it, were with you / we / they: The dog was chasing the cat. Kate and John were eating dinner.

Twenty-nine sentences, five at a time. Two of the three tiles are needed, the third is the wrong form of be or a bare verb - so the choice is really between was and were and between the -ing form and the bare one.