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Level 2: Pre-Intermediate >> Grammar Worksheets >> Description of a party into which students have to insert 'descriptive' phrases: practice of past continuous and its uses.

The Party

Read the following short text about a party and decide the best place in the text for the phrases which follow:

When I arrived at the party, there were many people there. First I saw Boris Yeltsin near the bar. Madonna was with some friends. Sting and Zucchero were near a big group of young girls. All the waiters were Mexican.

• and were talking to each other in Spanish
• and were singing a beautiful Italian song
• who was drinking a bottle of vodka
• and everybody was enjoying themselves
• and was singing her latest song