Past Simple Past Continuous exercises - answers

  • 1. I was watching TV when she called me.
  • 2. He jumped into the river and rescued the drowning man.
  • 3. I saw my first baseball match while I was living in New York.
  • 4. We rang the police because the neighbours were playing the music very loud.
  • 5. He wrote the whole homework during the lunch break.
  • 6. We were playing in the garden when it started to rain.
  • 7. He met his girlfriend when he was living in London.
  • 8. While I was working in the hospital I decided to give up smoking.
  • 9. It was raining the whole day so we decided to stay at home.
  • 10. The sun was shining so we decided to go for a walk.