Put in the Past Indefinite or the Past Continuous. While I…………….. the newspaper, the cat …………..on to the table. (read; jump)
Alan …………….Helen while he ………………..in Morocco. (meet; travel)
Sally …………… her leg while she ……………..(break; ski)
While I…………….., somebody ………………..my car. (shop; steal)
At 6.15, when you phoned, I had/was having a shower.
We watched/were watching TV all evening.
My father worked/was working hard all his life.
They got married while they studied/were studying at London University
Yesterday we drove/were driving from Oxford to Edinburgh and back.​

Basic Rules of Football

The object of the game is for each team to try and score more goals than the opposition.
Matches are won by the team that scores the most goals throughout the game.
A standard football team consists of 11 players.

A goal is scored when one team manages to get the ball into the marked area defended by a member of the opposition called a goalie.

Standard adult football matches consist of two halves of 45 minutes play

A foul is the penalty given to one player purposefully sabotaging another in a physical way, such as kicking.

The goalkeeper is the only member of a team who is allowed to handle the ball during play

Each team has the option to bring on a maximum of three substitutes during a game.

The USA is situated in the central part of North America and it is washed by the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico (Present Simple)

There are two main political parties in the USA: the Democratic (symbolized by a “donkey”) and the Republican (its symbol is an “elephant”) (Present Simple)

The flag of the USA is called “Stars and Stripes” (Present Simple)

Such industries as machine-building, ship-building are highly developed in the country (Present Simple)

Везде Present Simple, т.к. ведётся повествование.