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Past simple vs Past continuous

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  • She SPOKE / WAS SPEKING in a strange language, so I WASN'T / WASN'T BEING able to understand her.
    WAS SPEAKING / WASN'T
  • I _____ (not use) my phone while we ____ (travel).
    DIDN'T USE / WERE TRAVELLING
  • While I LIVED / WAS LIVING in Japan, I TOOK / WAS TAKING Japanese lessons.
    WAS LIVING / TOOK
  • When we ____ (arrive) , all the guests ____ (dance)
    ARRIVED / WERE DANCING
  • What WERE THEY TALKING / DID THEY TALK about when I CAME / WAS COMING into the room?
    WERE YOU TALKING / CAME
  • I FELL ASLEEP / WAS FALLING ASLEEP while I STUDIED / WAS STUDYING.
    FELL ASLEEP / WAS STUDYING
  • While I _____ (sightsee), my phone ____ (become) both a map and a guidebook.
    WAS SIGHTSEEING / BECAME
  • Yesterday evening I____ (chat) to my friend Alice on my phone.
    WAS CHATTING
  • Our host family DIDN'T SPEAK / WEREN'T SPEAKING to us in Spanish while we STAYED / WERE STAYING with them.
    DIDN'T SPEAK / WERE STAYING
  • Last night my friend Lucy and I ____(watch) a horror film and we ____ (get) scared when the phone _____ (ring)
    WERE WATCHING / GOT / RANG
  • It ____ (rain) and I ____ (stand) at the bus stop getting wet.
    WAS RAINING / WAS STANDING
  • -What ______ you ____ (do) yesterday at midday? -I _____ (have) lunch.
    WERE YOU DOING / WAS HAVING
  • Yesterday at 8, I _____ (watch) a football game.
    WAS WATCHING
  • On our last Fremch class we WERE LEARNING/LEARNED some new words.
    LEARNED