Past Tenses

Match the tenses to their use:

To talk about finished past actions
To talk about actions that were in progress at a specific past time
When you are already talking about the past and you want to refer to a previous past action

Complete the following sentences using the Past Simple and the Past Continuous tenses of the verbs given in bold:

1. I eat my dinner when the electricity go off.

2. The cat jump onto grandads lap while he sleep

3. I listen to the radio while I drive home from work when I hear the news.

Complete the following sentences using the Past Simple and the Past Perfect tenses of the verbs given in bold:

1. I feel awful yesterday, because the day before I eat some really terrible food.

2. I travel by boat before so I be really excited

3. When I get to the airport I realise to my horror that I leave my passport at home on the bedside table.

Complete the following sentences using the Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect tenses of the verbs given in bold:

Match the sentence halves: