Exercise 2 put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous. michael ( (have) breakfast yesterday morning when the post ( (arrive). he ( (listen) to the radio at the time so he ( (not/hear) the bell. his mother ( (bring) him an official-looking letter a few minutes later. he ( (open) it, wondering what it ( (can) be. imagine his surprise when he ( (read) it and ( (find) out that his application to enter the young musician’s talent competition had been accepted.