Complete the sentences with the past simple or past continuous. a) My mother (sleep) was sleeping when I (come) came home.
b) Alina (come)
when we (have)
dinner.
c) Nurbek (drive)
fast when the police (stop)
him.
d) It (snow)
when we (arrive)
at the airport.
when he (have)
a shower.
e) It all (happen)
along the street when I (see)
a man on
f) I (walk)
a bench.
her for the first time, she (read)
g) When I (see)
a book in the park.
when a big dog (run)
after me.
at the party, Nurbek and Deniza
i) When I arrive)
(dance)
3) I (do)
k) I (try)
at the door
off, I (work)
When the electricity (go)
computer
h) I (jog)
my last exercise when the lesson (finish)
to fall asleep when somebody (knock)
on the​

As for me, my life - that is my language. Like to many of you, English is not my mother tongue. It is a foreign language to me. When I was a little girl, I was always amazed by kids in a film having a chit-chat in a language that I didn’t understand at all what they were talking about, and yet, I sometimes acted as if I was one of them. Probably, that feeling had driven me having excitement in learning English even though at that time I had no idea whether the film was in English or in another foreign language.

It was my late father who introduced me by chance to English words. He loved reading. For that, in his spare time he went downtown to buy some used-books from street vendors. Someday, my father came home and brought some used books where I found an English book of fairy tales among others. I couldn’t read even its title, for sure, since I was at second grade of my primary school, but I found some interesting pictures in it and some keywords on the outer column of each page. So, I chose a picture and asked my father to read the story about it. I sat down side by side with him and he began to read a full sentence in a deep voice and then gave me its translation. Once in a while he got stuck in the meaning of a word, and so he opened English – Indonesian dictionary in order to figure it out. That was my first English reading session as well as my first experience to know how to use dictionary. Ever since, reading English become our regular agenda whenever my father was at home.

I.

1. Tutor

2. Overtime

3. Bring up

4. Uniform

5. Salary

6. Deadlines

7. Cashier

II. 1) This pizza delivery boy was talking on the phone when I called him.

2) He is a computer prgrammer and yesterday he was working on a new project.

3) Our friend, who is a lion tamer was practicing in the cage when we were hanging out together.

4) The reason the pizza delivery boy was late is because he was standing in a traffic jam.

5) Yesterday my co-worker, a computer programmer, was designing a new program when his computer started malfunctioning.

1) The reason he became an artist is because he had spent 4 years going through an arts school, however he wasn't passionate about his job at all.

2) This writer had written many poems before the start of the 21st century.

3) He had spent 2 years in an IT company before he became a mechanic.

4) Yesterday, before we started cooking, the mechanic had repaired the sink.

5) Before the birthday of my mother came up, an artist had helped me make a painting as a birthday gift for her.

III. 1) - Oh god, I didn't expect to hear that. When arghe you going to come back?

2) - That's amazing! Congratulations!

3) - Really? I feel terrible about that. Why hadn't you told me before?

4) I'm so sorry to hear that.

IV. 1) Had been working

2) Had been waiting

3) Had played

4) Had been working

5) Had already swept