1. Choose the correct verb form: 1) I was playing / play tennis yesterday when it started to rain. 2) Was training Ivan / Was Ivan training every day last month? 3) Were you swimming / You were swimming when you saw the shark? 4) Katrina and George were riding / was riding their bikes when they found the lost puppy. 5) Diane wasn’t / didn’t watching the basketball match at three o’clock. 6) Wendy was listen / was listening to the coach very carefully, but the other players weren’t. 7) What you were / were you doing when you heard the news? 8) While Darren and I was / were playing a chess match, the lights went off.

Перевод задания: Выберите правильную форму глагола.

1. I was playing tennis yesterday when it started to rain. (Вчера я играл в теннис, когда начался дождь.)
2. Was Ivan training every day last month? (Иван тренировался каждый день в прошлом месяце?)
3. Were you swimming when you saw the shark? (Ты плавал, когда увидел акулу?)
4. Katrina and George were riding their bikes when they found the lost puppy. (Катрина и Джордж ехали на велосипедах, когда нашли потерявшегося щенка.)
5. Diane wasn’t watching the basketball match at three o’clock. (Диана не смотрела баскетбольный матч в три часа.)
6. Wendy was listening to the coach very carefully, but the other players weren’t. (Уэнди очень внимательно слушала тренера, а остальные игроки — нет.)
7. What were you doing when you heard the news? (Что ты делал, когда услышал новость?)
8. While Darren and I were playing a chess match, the lights went off. (Пока мы с Дарреном играли в шахматы, свет погас.)

Past Continuous строится как was/were + глагол с окончанием -ing; в вопросах was/were ставится перед подлежащим. С подлежащим во множественном числе используется were.