Exercise 1: Put the correct form of the verb in brackets. Use the Past Continuous or the Past Simple. 1. Liza (meet ) ………..………… her old friend while she was going home from school. 2. While my father (read)………. a newspaper,someone ( knock) …………….. at the door. 3. I (think)………………..…….. Of going out when you (call) ………………….. 4. The thief (take) ………..………… the money when the staff (have) …..………… lunch. 5. He suddenly (realize) ………………. that he (travel) ………………..in the wrong direction. 6. Steve (drive) ……….…. to London when he (remember) …………………. to phone Ann. 7. When I (look) ….….…………. for my passport, I (find) ….………….. this old photograph. 8. As I (cross)……………..…..the street, I (step) …………………..on a banana skin and (fall) ……………………. heavily. 9. My mother (tidy) …………...………… my room when she (see) ………..……..your letter. 10. What you (write) ………….……….. when your computer (crash) ………..……….. ? 11. He (stand) ……..… up, ( walk) ………. across the room, and (close) …………. the window. 12. I (see) ……………..you in the park yesterday. You (sit) ……………….. on a bench with your arm around Tom. 13.My brother( fall) ………………… while he ( ride) ………………… his bike and hurt himself. 14. I tried to phone Lan this morning, but there (be ) ………………. no answer. 15.Yesterday, when we (be) ………… on the way home, it ( start) …………. raining heavily. 16. As soon as I (walk ) ……………… into the room, he (hand) ………………. me a letter. 17. Janet (do) ………………………..some washing this time yesterday. 18. I first met Lisa three years ago. She (work)………………… at a radio shop at the time. 19. The last time I (see) ………………. Jane, she ( pick) ……………………. cotton in the fields. 20. We (have) …………………. our evening meal at half-past seven yesterday and then we watched a film on television.