B1 English Grammar Test – Past Continuous multiple-choice questions

1.Yesterday, I dropped a glass while I … the dishes.

2.I … the bike when I saw Liz.

3.Were you … in the shower?

4.They … about the weather two days ago.

5.Was John … tennis with Andrew?

6.She … cricket yesterday.

7.They … their plans for the weekend three days ago.

8.When she arrived, we … dinner.

9.My teacher … the exercise to me when he entered.

10.We … when the alarm went off.

11.We … TV yesterday.

12.I … the guitar when my dad came home.

13.When I entered the room, Mary … her hair.

14.Was she … to Matt yesterday?

15.John … at the door when we arrived at the office.

16.They … to what I was talking about.

17.Simon … a shower when someone knocked at the door.

18.Yesterday at three o’clock, I … .

19.She … when I telephoned her.

20.She … when she broke her leg.

21.Were you listening while the teacher …?

22.I … when you phoned.

23.I … if you could open the window.

24.At 11:30 yesterday morning, I … in the park.

25.When I phoned him, he … tennis with his brother.

26.It … when I left home this morning.

27.I … my bike all day yesterday.

28.Was Ben … a shower?

29.Two children … on the sand and two fishermen … against an upturned boat.

30.When my parents came I … the piano.

31.I … a bath when my smartphone rang.

32.When the accident happened Marie … too fast.

33.She … the ironing when she heard the news.

34.When I first met her, she … in a restaurant.

35.Jeremy had a bad fall while he … his roof.

36.Tom said that he was the captain of a ship which … that night for Marseilles.

37.The airplane in which the football team … crashed soon after taking off.

38.The car had nobody in it but the engine … .