Bài tập về nhà môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 7 - Ôn tập về thì Quá khứ tiếp diễn và Quá khứ đơn

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BÀI TẬP THÊM: THÌ QUÁ KHỨ ĐƠN 
I/ Chia động từ trong ngoặc ở thì quá khứ đơn: 
1. Yesterday, I (go)______ to the restaurant with a client. 
2. We (drive) ______ around the parking lot for 20 mins to find a parking space. 
3. When we (arrive) ______ at the restaurant, the place (be) ______ full. 
4. The waitress (ask) ______ us if we (have) reservations. 
5. I (say), "No, my secretary forgets to make them." 
6. The waitress (tell)______ us to come back in two hours. 
7. My client and I slowly (walk) ______ back to the car. 
8. Then we (see) ______ a small grocery store. 
9. We (stop) in the grocery store and (buy) ______ some sandwiches. 
10. That (be) ______ better than waiting for two hours. 
11. I (not go) ______ to school last Sunday. 
12. She (get) ______ married last year? 
13. What you (do) ______ last night? 
- I (do) ______ my homework. 
14. I (love) ______ him but no more. 
15. Yesterday, I (get) ______ up at 6 and (have) ______ breakfast at 6.30. 
II- Complete the passage with the correct form of the verb. Using past simple. (Sử dụng thì 
quá khứ đơn) 
- The serious car accident (happen) ________ (1) on 19
th
 September between two buses from 
Yen Bai. One bus (carry)________(2) passengers from Yen Bai to Ha Noi, other 
(take)________(3) sixty students of Nguyen Trai school in Van Yen Distric. The even 
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(be)________ (4) in Phu Tho province when two buses (run)________(5) fast on the road, they 
(crash)________(6) against each other. Six people (die)________(7) immediatly, two others 
(die)________(8) on the way to the hospital, many others (be)________(9) hurt. The witneeses 
(say)________(10) that the driver of the bus from Ha Noi to Yen Bai(seem)________(11) to be 
drunk, so the other bus (not/have)________ (12) a chance. It (be) ________(13) the bus driver’s 
from Ha Noi to Yen Bai faul. 
III- Put the words and phrases in the right order, make some changes if necessary. Using 
the past simple or presen simple.(Sử dụng thì quá khứ đơn hoặc thì hiện tại đơn) 
Ex: be/a/I/last year/student - I was a student last year. 
1, be/they/at home/not/last sunday. 
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2, very/work/he/always/lazily. 
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3, you/look/ tired today/very/why? 
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4, John and Bill/why/on the farm/last night/stay/? 
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5, see/the day before yestersday/what/you/on TV/? 
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BÀI TẬP THÊM: THÌ QUÁ KHỨ TIẾP DIỄN 
Exercise 1: Complete the sentences with past continuous or past simple tense. (Hoàn thành câu 
sử dụng thì quá khứ tiếp diễn hoặc thì quá khứ đơn 
1. yesteday/ when/he/carry/a suitcase/he/drop/it/on his foot. 
2. he/break/his leg/when/he/ski/last month. 
3. he/sit down/on/chair/when/I/paint/it. 
4. Lan/sit/in the garden/when/a wasp/sting/her/on the nose. 
5. as/we/drive /down the hill, a strange object/ appear/ in the sky. 
Execise 2: Complete the sentences with the past simple or past continuous tense. (Chia động từ ở 
thì quá đơn hoặc thì quà khứ tiếp diễn) 
1. When Jonh(arrive)at home, Anna(talk)to some one on the phone. Jonh(start)to get the tea. 
2. I (lie) in the bath when the phone (ring). It (stop) after a few rings. 
3. It (be) cold when we (leave) the house that day, and a light snow (fall). 
4. Your friend who (come) here the other day (seem) very nice. I (enjoy) meeting her. 
5. When I (see) the man, he (stand) outside the bank. He (have) a black baseball cap on. 
Exercise 3: Put the verb into the correct form: Past simple and past continuous. (Chia động từ ở 
thì quá đơn hoặc thì quà khứ tiếp diễn) 
1, The Chinese ships .(tresspass) 80 miles into Vietnamese sea on the May 26. 
2, When I (get) home, they (watch) TV, they 
 (not/do) their homework. 
3, What Ha (do) at 6.30 this morning ? - She ..(swim). 
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5, She ..(listen) to music when the phone .(ring) 
6, We ..(study) unit 18 at this time last week. 
7, I .(not/visit) Ha Long Bay last year, because I (be) busy 
8, The train ..(leave) the station yesterday afternoon. 
9, My parents.(have) dinner by the time I .(get) home yesterday. 
10, Bill Gate .(not/earn) $ 300 in 2005, he .(earn) $ 175. 
11, Where .you .(meet) Tom this morning ? 
 - I(meet) him in front of the school library and he ..(not/look) 
 cheerful as usual.. 
Exercise 4: Change the verbs in brackets into the Simple Past or the Past Continuous: (Chia 
động từ ở thì quá đơn hoặc thì quà khứ tiếp diễn) 
1. They (study) in the library when the fire alarm went off. 
2. It (snow) when I got up this morning. 
3. Abert Einstein (die) in 1955. 
4. Tom (go) to the post office twice yesterday. 
5. Hellen (wait) in the lobby, wasn't she? 
6. He (work) his way through college at that time. 
7. He (teach) economics at Harvard for almost 50 years. 
8. The wind (blow) very hard when I went out this morning. 
9. He fell while he (go) down the stairs. 
10. My car (break) down this morning on the way to work 
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Exercise 5: Viết lại câu theo mẫu sau: 
S + past continuous + and + S + past continuous => S + past continuous + while + S + past 
continuous. 
S + past continuous + and + S + simple past => S + simple past + when + S + past continuous 
Ex: I was going to school and I was eating my breakfast. 
 I was going to school while I was eating my breakfast. 
I was eating lunch and the phone rang. 
 The phone rang when I was eating lunch. 
1. We were having dinner and they were listening to the radio. 
=> Wewere................................................................................................................................... 
2. She was sleeping and the fire started. 
=> The fire................................................................................................................................... 
3. It began to rain and what were you doing.. 
=> What...................................................................................................................................... 
4. The farmer started whishing and he was ploughting the field. 
=> When.................................................................................................................................. 
5. You came and what were they doing? 
=> What was................................................................................................................................ 
7. She was reading a book and the man came in. 
=> The man.................................................................................................................................. 
8. They were working in the field and the volcano erupted. 
=> The volcano............................................................................................................................