Практикум по грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие

Exercise 31. Complete the paragraph by putting the verbs in brackets 
into the most suitable form (would, used to or Past Simple). Use would where 
possible. Where it is not poss ible, decide whether used to or Past Simple is 
most appropriate.
I _______________ (go) to a Crimean seaside resort every summer with 
my parents when I _______________ (be) a child. We _______________
(choose) somewhere different from one year to the next. Every year my par-
ents _______________ (get out) the map of the Crimea and _______________ 
(study) the coastline, trying to discover somewhere new; they always 
_______________ (argue) at first because my mother _______________ (sug-
gest) a quiet little village, but my father _______________ (not like) the idea.
In those days, before television sets _______________ (become) com-
mon, there _______________ (be) music halls in most cities and shows in 
all the big seaside resorts in summer. My father _______________ (be) fond 
of the music hall, and on holiday he _______________ (like) to see all the 
shows. When we first _______________ (arrive) in a resort, he immediately 
_______________ (buy) the local newspaper and _______________(book) 
seats for all the entertainments. My mother _______________ (know) how 
much my father _______________ (love) these shows, and almost never 
_______________ (agrue) with him.
Exercise 32. Think of 10 ways in which your life is different from your 
life 5 years ago. Example: I used to go to school 5 years ago, but now I go to 
university.

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Past continuous 
Usage:
• to talk about a
 continuing
action at a certain time in the past
At ten о’clock last night I was watching TV. 
I saw you last night. You were waiting for a bus.
• to talk about an interrupted action in the past
In this case, Past Continuous and Past Simple tenses are used together in 
a sentence to say that something happened in the middle of something else 
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