Past continuous tense འདས་པའི་བྱེད་བཞིན་པ། 过去进行式

Exercises
1 Choose the right answer. འདེམས་སྐོང།

1. What _____ you doing last night?

We _____ doing our homework.
A. were, were B do, do
C. is, are D. have, are

2. What _____ you doing yesterday evening?

I _____ TV at home.

A. were, watches B. was, was watching

C. were, were D. were, was watching

3. What _____ your brother doing yesterday morning?
He _____ English with his classmates.

A. were, studied B. were, were studying

C. was, was studying D. were, was studying


2. Gap filing: write the correct verb from in each blank. ཁ་སྐོང།

1 I ______(play) computer games at ten last night.

2 Bob’s family ______(have) dinner last night.
3 It ______(rain) hard at this time yesterday.

4 I ______(sleep) at six last night.
5 He ______(leave) school last week.
6 We ______(have) an English class at four o'clock yesterday.

3. Matching: create sentences by matching from the column. ཚིག་གྲུབ་བཟོ་བ།

# / Subject / Be verb / Object
1 / I / was
were / eating noodles.
2 / She / playing last night.
3 / He / studying in the classroom.
4 / Zha xi / washing her hair last night.
5 / We / going home last week.
6 / They / talking to each other.

Note: There are many possible answers for this exercise.

4 Multiple choice: choose the correct past continuous be verb. Write the correct letter in the space.

1. I __ reading a book.

A.  am B. is C. was D. are

2. They __ playing basketball.
A. is B. were C. are D. have

3. He __ eating lunch.

A.  Were B. is C. was D. does

4. We __ watching TV.

A.  Were B. do C. have D. are

5. She __ looking at me.

A. Have B. is C. Has D. Was

Answers:
1 Choose the right answer. འདེམས་སྐོང།

1. A 2. D 3. C

2. Gap filing: write the correct verb from in each blank. ཁ་སྐོང།

1 was playing

2 was having

3 was raining

4 was sleeping

5 was leaving

6 were having

3. Matching: create sentences by matching from the column. ཚིག་གྲུབ་བཟོ་བ།

# / Subject / Be verb / Object / Example sentences
1 / I / was
were / eating noodles. / I was studying in the classroom.
2 / She / playing last night. / She was washing her hair last night.
3 / He / studying in the classroom. / He was going home last week.
4 / Zha xi / washing her hair last night. / Zhaxi was eating noodles.
5 / We / going home last week. / We were playing last night.
6 / They / talking to each other. / They were talking to each other


6 They were talking each other.
4 Multiple choice: choose the correct past continuous verb. Write the correct letter in the space.

1 C 2 B 3 C 4 A 5 D