Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous form of the verbs in brackets. 1 The customers(hate) the food, so the restaurant(close).
2 The chef(watch) TV so he(forget) about the food.
3 While the waiter(talk) to Mrs Green, he(drop) the food on her.
4 First, I(fry) the fish and then I(boil) the eggs.
5 Don't worry. We(not have) dinner when you/(call).(order) a dessert after my spaghetti, but I(be) too full to eat it.
7 Veronica(read) a cookbook while her children(play) in the garden.
8 Fred(not go) to the restaurant because he(not feel) well.​

They (1)  (met) at a dance at a Jewish centre. “I (2)  (had just come) out of the army, and I (3)  (was looking for) a girlfriend,” says Leon. “I (4)  (saw) a lovely blonde, with crocodile shoes. She (5)  (was wearing) a white dress and (6)  (had) a fine figure.” “I (7)  (did not have) the crocodile shoes then,” Lilli reminds him. “Well, something struck me,” he smiles. “I (8) (had not danced) with such a beautiful girl before. And all the other boys (9) (watched/were watching) us.” That was in February 1947. Lilli and Leon (10)  (got) married a very later and (11)  (moved) into what (12) (had been) a storage space before.

I would like to speak about my favourite writer.His name is Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin. Alexander Pushkin was a Russian poet, novelist, playwright of the Romantic era. One of Russia's greatest poets, he is known as the father of modern Russian literature. He was born  in Moscow on May 26, 1799.He attended the Lyceum from 1811 to 1817 and received the best education available in Russia at the time.He was first published in the journal The Messenger of Europe in 1814.Pushkin was married to Natalia Goncharova on February 18, 1831, in Moscow. She was very beautiful. Alexandr Pushkin's most popular book is Eugene Onegin. He had written so many books such as "The Captain's Daughter", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "Ruslan and Ludmila", "Fairy Tales".