Question

Past Simple and Continuous . Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets .

A few years ago , a young family ........( move ) to a house in Melbourne , Australia . One night , the couple ......... ( sleep) when their baby son ........( start ) crying . The woman woke up and ...... ( prepare ) a bottle of milk when suddenly the crying ............( stop ) She went back to bed . A few hours later , the baby cried again . This time she went to check . As she opened the door to her son's room , she ......... (see ) a boy sitting on the bed . He ......... ( calm ) the baby down . When he saw the woman , he ........ (disappear ) The woman never saw the boy again but the neighbours ........ ( tell )her it was the ghost of a young boy who .........( die ) in the same room eighty years before .

Answer 1

1.moved

2.were sleeping

3.started

4.was preparing

5.stopped

6.saw

7.was calming

8.disappeared

9.told

10.died