Narrative tenses | Baamboozle - Baamboozle | The Most Fun Classroom Games!

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I (have) breakfast and (listen) to the news when the phone (ring).

I was having breakfast and listening to the news when the phone rang.

I met/have met her when we were/had been at school together.

I met her when we were at school together.

Before I was starting / started / have started my present job, I was working/worked for a bank for two years.

Before I started my present job, I worked…

They waited/were waiting until everyone had left/was leaving the bank and then broke in / were breaking in.

They waited until everyone had left the bank and then broke in.

Correct this sentence: She'd been writing twenty letters, so she was tired.

She’d written twenty letters, so she was tired.

Correct this sentence: When I was a small child, we had lived in a house in the country.

When I was a small child, we lived in a house in the country.

The kitchen was a mess as I was cooking/had cooked/had been cooking all day.

…as I had been cooking all day.

When the helicopter finally (find) us, we (sit) in the lifeboat for hours and (eat) all our food.

When the helicopter finally found us, we had been sitting in the lifeboat for hours and had eaten all our food.

Correct this sentence: By the time the emergency supplies arrived, thirty people had been dying.

By the time the emergency supplies arrived, thirty people had died.

Correct this sentence: As soon as she was seeing the time, she was jumping out of bed.

As soon as she saw the time, she jumped out of bed

I couldn't see anything as I lost / had lost my glasses.

I couldn't see anything as I had lost my glasses.

As soon as she (get) home, she (make) herself a sandwich.

As soon as she got home, she made herself a sandwich.

Correct this sentence: When she ate her sandwich, she went to bed.

When she had eaten her sandwich, she went to bed.

We (drive) for about ten minutes when we (notice) smoke coming from the engine

We had been driving for about ten minutes when we noticed smoke coming from the engine.

Correct this sentence: By the time our food arrived, we waited half an hour.

By the time our food arrived, we had been waiting half an hour.

Correct this sentence: When I had got to the office, my boss had been leaving.

When I got to the office, my boss left/was leaving/had (already) left.

I was so late that by the time I got there, all the food had eaten/was eaten/had been eaten.

…all the food had been eaten.

When we got/were getting to the cinema, the film started/was starting/had started, so we missed the beginning.

When we got to the cinema, the film had started…

When we got/were getting to the party, everyone danced and drank/was dancing and drinking.

When we got to the party everyone was dancing and drinking.

Correct this sentence: The roads were very slippery as it rained all morning.

The roads were very slippery as it had been raining all morning.

Correct this sentence: After I graduated, I was living in London for ten years.

After I graduated, I lived in London for ten years.