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When vs. While: Past Continuous Exercises

1. The document contains a collection of short passages describing various situations involving people and their actions. 2. Many of the passages involve two things happening simultaneously as indicated by the use of "while". 3. The passages cover a wide range of everyday events and situations including cooking, sports, family interactions, transportation accidents, natural phenomena, and more.

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When vs. While: Past Continuous Exercises

1. The document contains a collection of short passages describing various situations involving people and their actions. 2. Many of the passages involve two things happening simultaneously as indicated by the use of "while". 3. The passages cover a wide range of everyday events and situations including cooking, sports, family interactions, transportation accidents, natural phenomena, and more.

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Claudia Sol
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While Mike While he______ While Mike ________ When Adam _________

___________ (ride) his (watch) tv, he______ (cut) onions, he (drop) his ice cream,
bike, he ________ (fall) (fall) asleep on the __________ (cry). he________ (start) to
armchair. cry.

My dad _________(be) While they ________ When Alex _____(hurt) While our teacher ____
shocked when he _______ (row) in the sea, Simon his finger, he ____ (teach) , she ____ (spill)
(see) the bill. _______ (kiss) Barbara. (try) to drive a nail to the some coffee on her books.
wall.

When Clara ________ When Carl _________ Jessica _________(be) While Alfred _______
(crash) her car yesterday, (stain) his shirt with very surprised when (sing), the people ____
she __________ (try) to sauce, he _______ Dave _______ (propose) (throw) tomatoes and
park it. (eat) a sandwich . to her last month. bananas at him.

It ___________ (rain) David ____________(fly) While Charles _______ She _________(feel)


heavily when they ____ on a paper plane in his (water) the flowers, his really happy when she
(meet) after school dream. wife _________ (plant) a _______ (receive) a
yesterday. tree. letter from his son.
Maria _______(be) very While the astronout [Link] _________ While [Link] ______
afraid when she ________ (walk) on the really surprised when (milk) her cow, it _____
________ (see) a spider moon, he ________ she ________ (learn) (eat) some grass.
in her room. (meet) an alien. the news this morning.

Martin __________ While I ________(walk) When the telephone [Link] _____ (see)
(drop) the plate, while he in the park yesterday, I _______ (ring), George Tom while he _______
_________(serve) it. ______ (see) a UFO. ______ (have) a shower. (talk) on the phone.

While he ___________ David’s pants ____ When her grandson Martin first _________
(wait) for his girl friend, (fall) down while he _________ (knock) at (see) Jennifer while she
he ____ (get)very angry. ________ (walk) in the the door, Mrs Plump ____________ (dance)
street yesterday. ____________ (knit). at a party.

Bruce ______ (slip) on a Joe ________ (play) When the brothers Adam’s papers _______
soap and _____ (fall) bowling with his friends ____ (meet) after a long (fall) from his briefcase
while he ____________ when he ____ (drop) the separation, they ______ while he ____________
(clean) the bathroom. ball on his foot. (hug) each other tightly. (go) to work.

While we _________ When we _______(look) When my tooth ______ While I _______ (swim)
(have) a barbecue, Mike’s out of the window, it (fall) out, I __________ in the sea, I _____ (see)
pants _______(catch) fire. ________ (rain) heavily. (eat) cookies. a shark just in front of
me.

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