Cover of the textbook English File Pre-Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2B - That's me in the picture! for the textbook English File Pre-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Complete the sentences with a verb from the list in the correct past continuous form.
  2. Write sentences with when. Use the past simple and past continuous.
  3. The police are at an art gallery because someone stole a famous painting at 5.30 yesterday afternoon. What were the people in the pictures doing at the time? Write sentences.

Answer

a)

  1. was walking
  2. Were; working
  3. were you doing
  4. wasn't raining
  5. wasn't living
  6. was getting

b)

  1. Tommy fell off his bike when he was cycling home.
  2. Mark was talking on the phone when he got a text.
  3. The children were playing computer games when the visitors arrived.
  4. We were having a barbecue when it started to rain.
  5. I was writing a report when my computer crashed.

c)

  1. I was cleaning Gallery 6.
  2. We were trying to find the exit.
  3. I was closing the windows.
  4. We were washing the coffee cups.
  5. I was counting the money.