Cover of the textbook Outcomes Elementary - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - Love at first sight for the textbook Outcomes Elementary - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at these sentences from the listening. Underline one example of the past continuous and one example of the past simple in each sentence. Then complete the rules in the Grammar box below.

Answer

(past continuous underlined, past simple in bold)

  1. I was working in a Second Life nightclub when one night, I met my future husband.
  2. We were driving home from another appointment when we suddenly saw it – the house of our dreams!
  3. We weren’t getting on very well, so I started spending a lot of time online.


  1. were
  2. continuous
  3. simple
  4. when