Haunted House - Past Simple/Past Continuous

Welcome to the Haunted House

by Monika Bujak

You dared to come to this haunted house....and there is NO WAY OUT....you will stay here FOREVER !!!

Unless you solve the riddle....

First follow the skeleton's hand

by Monika Bujak

In order to get out of this house you have to find out the name of the previous owner and...at the same time...the lady that haunts this house.......

To find out her name you have to solve 6 riddles, one of them is in this room...

by Monika Bujak

Try to fill the sentences with the following expressions, the letter that is next to the expression that is left out is the first letter of the old lady's name...GOOD LUCK!!!

1. I............on the beach when suddenly it.................raining. 2. We.................dinner when the door bell............. 3. When my dad ..........to work yesterday he........an old friend. 4. Suzie.........her arm when she.................up the ladder. 5. When I ................home suddenly the phone........... 6. The first time I .........him was when he ..................flowers on the corner. 7. I...............my new book when I ..............those weird birds. 8. John ................his computer when it .....................a virus.25

(k) broke (m)was using (w) was reading (j)was washing (h) was climbing (d) caught (r)started (f) was lying (o) were having (n) rang x2 (q) was driving (s)noticed (p)saw x2 (f) was leaving (y)was selling

Solve the second riddle and find out the SECOND LETTER of the old lady's NAME....

by Monika Bujak

Match the begginings of the senetences with their ends, the beginning that is left without the end is with the SECOND letter of the lady's name...

(G) Was Archimedes having lunch when....... (A) Mark Zuckerberg was studying in Harvard when........ (H) Was Alan Turing working for NASA when...... (U) Charles Darwin was collecting specimens when...... (I) Nicolaus Copernicus was observing the sky when...... (O) Isaac Newton was studying physics when.....

(1) he developed the thoery of evolution. (2) he built the first computer? (3) he created Facebook (4) he had an Eureka moment? (5) he developed the theory thet the Earth moves around the Sun.

Start from the beginning

Find another ridddle....

by Monika Bujak

Find the mistakes, the sentence WITHOUT the mistake is with the THIRD LETTER of the old lady's name...

(I) My friends was studying when they met. (E) It was getting dark when I was noticing him. (Y) It was raining when she waked up. (A) My computer crashed when I was updating my profile. (T) The birds were singing, the leaves were rustling. (O) She finished her work, was getting into the car and drove away.

Find the next riddle before the skeleton comes and gets you!!!

by Monika Bujak

Try to write the verbs from the brackets in the right form, the sentence, in which ONLY PAST CONTINUOUS can be used, is with the FOURTH LETTER of the lady's name...

(K) She........(wake) up, then she ...............(eat) her breakfast and ..........(go) out. (P) Simon and Mark............(be) very tired yesterday. (N) What...........(you/do) yesterday at six o'clock yesterday? (T) They............(play) chess when they .............(hear) a strange noise yesterday evening. (M) What................(she/do) when they...............(enter) the shop? (W) ...................(Lola/stand) outside when it.......................(start) to rain? (F) We..................(wait) at the crossing when the car...............(crash) into the tree. (U) .........................(they/stay) in Liverpool when the war.................(break)?

by Monika Bujak

There are three groups of actions, try to sort the below sentences to those categories and........ the category with the biggest number of sentences is with THE FIFTH LETTER of the lady's name...

1. While she was reading a newspaper her daughter called to her. 2. They leaned to us and whispered the code, then they disappeared. 3. The wind was blowing, the waves were crashing and I was sitting on the shore. 4. While her mum was ironing, her dad was mowing the lawn and her brother was talking on the phone. 5. Lisa was driving to work when the rabbit jumped in front of her. 6. Harry took his phone out, punched in the code and it stopped working. 7. A friend wrote to me while I was walking home.

(D) Short actions happenning one after another

(N) One long action interrupted by a short action.

(L) Two longer actions happenning at the same time

Here is typewriter to type the old lady's name....and get out...

There is only one more letter - THE SIXTH LETTER to solve the riddle and get out...

by Monika Bujak

YOU GOT OUT!!!

by Monika Bujak

The sentence WITHOUT the mistake is the sentence with the last -THE SIXTH LETTER of the lady's name...

(A) When we were finishing our classes, it was raining. (O) When did the first man land on the Moon we were still children. (I) When were your sister preparing lunch yesterday? (E) The last time I seen Kim, she was playing an online game with her friend. (U) when I was downloading music from the Internet, my server stoped working. (Y) Why Ralph was wearing his suit yesterday? (J) Alison and Tom was waiting for the bus when their dad texted them. (F) When Sue was talking to Ann, suddenly Ann hanged up. (L) When was I 7 years old, my father was offered a job in Africa.