Are you going to Rome? I thought that you (go) to Milan

My wife and I (talk) about you the other day.

When I first met him he (study) painting.

There was a strong smell and the sound of frying. Obviously Mrs Jones (cook) fish.

Tom ate nothing for lunch because he (diet). He said that he (try) to lose 10 kilos.

17 Who you (talk) to on the telephone as I came in?
I (talk) to Mr Pitt.

As she (climb) the ladder it slipped sideways and she fell off it.

19 When I first met him he (work) in a restaurant.

20 He watched the children for a moment. Some of them (bathe) in the sea, others (look) for shells, others (play) in the sand.

21 Where he (live) when you saw him last?

22 She (stand) at the bus stop. I asked her what bus she (wait) for.

23 From the sounds it was clear that Mary (practise) the piano.

24 There had been an accident and men (carry) the injured people to an ambulance.

25 Two men (fight) at a street comer and a policeman (try) to stop them. ~

What they (fight) about? ~
Nobody seemed to know.

26 Tom (sit) in a corner with a book. I told him that he (read) in very bad light.

27 I went into the garden to see what the boys (do). James (weed) and Alexander (cut) the grass.

28 They had taken off the wheel of the car and (mend) the puncture. I asked when it would be ready.

29 When I arrived at the meeting the first speaker had just finished speaking and the audience (clap),

30 The traffic (make) so much noise that I couldn't hear what he (say).

31 While he (learn) to drive he had twenty-five accidents.

32 He had a bad fall while he (repair) his roof.

33 He was a little mad. He always (try) to prove that the earth was flat.

34 While we (fish) someone came to the house and left this note.

35 The exam had just begun and the candidates (write) their names at the top of their papers.

36 Just as I (wonder) what to do next, the phone rang.

The simple past and the past continuous
PEG 175-81

Put the verbs in brackets into the simple past or the past continuous tense.

I lit the fire at 6.00 and it (bum) brightly when Tom came in at 7.00.

When I arrived the lecture had already started and the professor (write) on the overhead projector.

I (make) a cake when the light went out. I had to finish it in the dark.

I didn't want to meet Paul so when he entered the room I (leave).

Unfortunately when I arrived Ann just (leave), so we only had time for a few words.

He (watch) TV when the phone rang. Very unwillingly he (turn) down the sound and (go) to answer it.

He was very polite. Whenever his wife entered the room he (stand) up.

The admiral (play) bowls when he received news of the invasion. He (insist) on finishing the game.

My dog (walk) along quietly when Mr Pitt's Pekinese attacked him.

When I arrived she (have) lunch. She apologized for starting without me but said that she always (lunch) at 12.30.