PAST SIMPLE & PAST CONTINUOUS

I Choose the best verb form to complete the sentences.

1 Jack was looking for a job when he was winning / won the lottery.
2 I was crossing / crossed the road, went into the shop and bought a lottery ticket.
3 I was watching/watched a game of tennis when my boyfriend phoned and told me I'd won 25,000.
4 I was buying / bought my lottery ticket on Saturday and as usual 1 didn't win a thing.
5 The gambling industry was making / made over 42 billion last year.
6 I was listening / listened to the radio when my winning numbers came up. . .
7 My sister was living / lived on nothing when she won 1,000,000.
8 I was reading / read the newspaper when 1 saw an article about an old school friend of mine who had
won 12 million.

II. Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
My friend (1)_________(tell) me a funny story the other day. When she was at university she (2)
_____(share) a house with five other girls and none of them had any money. They (3) _____ (talk) about
ways to make money when one of them (4) _______ (suggest) they buy a lottery ticket. They (5)
_______ (decide) to use the dates they were born on as their 'lottery numbers'. The next Saturday they
(6) _______ (sit) in the pub and (7)________(have) a drink when the winning numbers came up on the
TV. They (8) _______ (have) all six winning numbers. The only problem was that they had forgotten to
buy a lottery ticket!

III. Complete the conversation with words or phrases from the box.
scratchcards jackpot raise money charities a lot of stake against the odds
win the lottery
Alf: This is serious. The club now owes the bank 250,000. Theres (1)_______ here. No money means
no football club!
Brian: 250,000! How on earth can we (2) ________of that sort?
Charlie: Easy! Rob a bank or (3)________
Alt: Our chances of winning the lottery are one in three million - totally (4) ____.
Charlie: How about (5)________ ? I like them because you know straight away if you've won or not.
Brian: I've got an idea maybe there are some (6) ______that help sports clubs.
Alf: We're hardly a priority, are we? But maybe we could find a local business to sponsor
Brian: Wait a second! Jason ... Jason Sewell.
Alf&
Charlie: From school? ,
Brian: Yeah. He won a lottery (7) ________worth 7 million ten years ago. He's a billionaire now , and a
big football fan.
Charlie: Terrific! Hes our man.