Résumé de cours Exercices et corrigés Cours en ligne d’anglais Cours en ligne du Toeic Exercices et corrigés sur le past continuous anglais Ces exercices sur le past continuous en anglais vous permettront de vous entraîner afin de ne plus faire d’erreur et de connaître les règles d’utilisation par coeur. Exercice 1. Conjuguez les verbes suivants au past continuous. My mother and I watch………………TV. She eat……………….her lunch. Mary do……………….her homework. I wait………………….the bus. My sisters laughing………………….out loud. sleep…………you…………..? drink…………you guys……………? He type………………on his phone. The sun shine…………… They not talk……………….. . Correction de l’exercice 1. My mother and I were watching TV. She was eating her lunch. Mary was doing her homework. I was waiting the bus. My sisters were laughing out loud. Were you sleeping ? Were you guys drinking ? He was typing on his phone. The sun was shining. They were not talking. Exercice 2. Conjuguez les verbes suivants au past continuous OU au prétérit. I watch………………a movie when I hear……………….my mother scream. When I come……………….back last night, my husband cook………………… Ealier this morning I clean……………..the house. I see…………….her two days ago. She wear……………..her high school uniform. We talk…………… when her phone ring…………….. She tell…………….me there be……………….someone in the house. I not believe………………her when suddenly I hear……………..a noise upstairs. What do…………you…………..last night at 8 ? The police arrest……………him as he go……………to the airport. Yesterday, my dog not feel……………..well. I not answer………………..because I drive……………..when you call………….me. Once upon a time, a woman and her husband live…………….in a house on the beach. My mother read……………….while my father watch……………..TV in the living room. We go …………..to the cinema but we decide…………….to the museum instead. My parents have……………..dinner, talk……………….about their work and laugh…………….. At noon I hitchhike………………..on the road. I do…………… my homework when the power go………………..off. Correction de l’exercice 2. was watching a movie when I heard my mother scream. when » indique ici que la deuxième action to hear my mother scream a interrompu la première to watch a movie d’où l’emploi d’abord du past continuous puis du prétérit. Pour vous aider, pensez à l’imparfait en cours de français qui est l’équivalent du past continuous. 2. When I came back last night, my husband was cooking. last night » marqueur temporel du passé et when » justifient l’emploi du prétérit en anglais pour le premier verbe come » puis l’emploi du past continuous pour le verbe cook » dont l’action se déroulait avant. 3. Ealier this morning I cleaned the house. L’emploi du marqueur temporel earlier this morning » justifie l’emploi du prétérit. 4. I saw her two days ago. She was wearing her high school uniform. We were talking when her phone rang. two days ago » est un marqueur temporel du passé, d’où l’emploi du prétérit. was wearing » est utilisé car on décrit ici la situation de cet événement passé. Dans la troisième phrase avec when » on constate que l’action talk » a été interrompue par l’action ring » d’où l’emploi du past continuous puis du prétérit. 5. She told me there was someone in the house. I did not believe her when suddenly I heard a noise upstairs. told » et was » sont à conjuguer au prétérit car ils sont utilisés dans le cadre d’une narration. When » implique l’interruption de la première action believe » par la seconde hear » mais le verbe believe » est conjugué au past continuous car il s’agit d’un verbe d’état qui ne se conjugue pas aux temps progressifs. 6. What were you doing last night at 8 ? Même s’il y a le marqueur temporel du passé last night », c’est le prétérit continu et non le prétérit simple qui est ici employé à cause du marqueur temporel 8 » qui indique un moment précis dans le passé. 7. The police arrested him as he was going to the airport. La conjonction as » indique une action se déroulant pendant qu’une autre action se déroule. L’action qui se déroulait en premier ici est l’action go to the airport » d’où l’emploi du prétérit continu et cette action a été interrompue par l’action arrest » donc conjuguée au prétérit simple. my dog was not feeling well. L’emploi du past continuous est ici justifié par le fait que cette action est durée dans le passé. 9. I did not answer because I was driving when you called me. did not answer » est au prétérit car il s’agit d’une action passée brève et révolue due aux actions passés suivantes. when » indique que l’action call » au prétérit a interrompu l’action drive » qui est donc conjuguée au past continuous. 10. Once upon a time, a woman and her husband were living in a house on the beach. Il s’agit ici du début d’un récit qui décrit le cadre d’une histoire au passé. 11. My mother was reading while my father was watching TV in the living room. Ces deux actions sont parallèles et se déroulaient donc au même moment. 12. We were going to the cinema but we decided to the museum instead. instead » indique un changement d’avis, d’où l’emploi du past continuous pour exprimer l’action de départ go to the cinema » avant ce changement d’avis. 13. My parents were having dinner, talking about their work and laughing. Ces trois actions sont des actions parallèles d’où l’emploi du prétérit continu. La répétition de l’auxiliaire n’est pas nécessaire quand un même auxiliaire concerne plusieurs verbes au prétérit continu. 14. At noon I was hitchhiking on the road. At noon indique un moment précis qui justifie l’emploi de ce temps du passé. 15. I was doing my homework when the power went off. L’action do my homework » est une action continue du passé interrompue par l’action go off ». Exercice 3. Conjuguez les verbes des paragraphes suivants au prétérit simple OU au prétérit continu. while I cook…………..Jane call…………..She tell…………..me she lose…………..her phone the day before. She think………..she let…………it at her home but realize…………….it not be…………….there when she come……………back from school. As she look………….for it in her room, her mother call………..her from the kitchen asking what she want………….to eat for dinner. They have…………..lunch and watch………. TV when her friend show up…….to give her her phone back. 2. When my brother study……………..in college, he work…………..everyday at a restaurant as a waiter after class. He do………..that because his tuition fees be……..very high. He not want…………. to have a student loan so after class at 7 he drive………….to the restaurant and work………..for 4 hours then go……….back home to do his homework. 3. The wind blow………….very hard when the bus leave………..the school. When we arrive…………..at home, our parents wait……………..for us and tell………..us to run into the basement. When my mother turn…………the radio on, I hear………….people saying a hurricane be…………….on the way. As my father try……………to prevent the windows from breaking, we hear…………our neighbour screaming because the wind blow ……….up her window. She stay…………..with us until the hurricane go………….away. 4. When my sister and I be……….younger, we love……….playing in the garden. My sister tell…………me stories she think up……….We imagine……….our life as pirates and we use………..chairs as boats. Our mother make…………..us snacks and laugh………….at our imagination. At 5 we sit…………in front of the TV to watch our favorite show. 5. My friend say………..that her maths teacher be………..so boring that at 3pm some students sleep…….. in her class, others surf……….on the Internet or listen……….music. Suddenly, the teacher yell………at my friend for not paying attention to her class. She suggest…………my friend to switch to another class if she not be…………interested by hers. While the teacher scold………..her, she apologize and the class carry on…………. Correction de l’exercice 3. while I was cooking Jane called. She told me she lost her phone the day before. She thought she let it at her home but realized it was not there when she came back from school. As she was looking for it in her room, her mother called her from the kitchen asking what she wanted to eat for dinner. They were having lunch and watching TV when her friend showed up to give her her phone back. 2. When my brother was studying in college, he worked / was working everyday at a restaurant as a waiter after class. He was doing / did that because his tuition fees were very high. He did not want to have a student loan so after class at 7 he was driving to the restaurant and was working for 4 hours then was going back home to do his homework. 3. The wind was blewing very hard when the bus left the school. When we arrived at home, our parents were waiting for us and told us to run into the basement. When my mother turned the radio on, I heard people saying a hurricane was on the way. As my father was trying to prevent the windows from breaking, we heard our neighbour screaming because the wind blew up her window. She stayed with us until the hurricane went away. 4. When my sister and I were younger, we loved playing in the garden. My sister was telling me stories she thought up verbe d’état. We imagined verbe d’état our life as pirates and we were using chairs as boats. Our mother was making us snacks and laughing at our imagination. At 5 we were sitting in front of the TV to watch our favorite show. 5. My friend said that her maths teacher was so boring that at 3pm some students were sleeping in her class, others were surfing on the Internet or listening music. Suddenly, the teacher yelled at my friend for not paying attention to her class. She suggested my friend to switch to another class if she was not interested by hers. While the teacher was scolding her, she apologized and the class carried on. Ces exercices sont classiques et peuvent vous préparer au Toefl, à l’examen Ielts ou au Toeic. Ils peuvent également vous servir dans les classes de collège, de lycée et dans le supérieur, tout comme nos autres cours en ligne d’anglais dont le futur le conditionnel to + indicatif et V+ ing le présent simple le présent continu