The Past Simple and the Past Continuous Tenses

17. Раскройте скобки, употребив Past Simple или Past Continuous. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. When Mary (arrive) at the station, the train (leave).

2. Adam (drop) the plate while he (wash) up.

3. While I (shop) someone (steal) my bag.

4. Ross (break) his leg when he (ski) in Austria.

5. When Ning (walk) to school she (find) some money.

18. Прочитайте и переведите текст.

A rare species

Three men were arrested, handcuffed and held for several hours in the police station - for stealing seaweed from a public beach. Two police cars and a police motorcyclist followed the men, who have.not been named, for three miles from the beach at Eastbourne, in England. The three men, who were not charged, have made a complaint about the officers. Eastbourne Council defended the police, saying the seaweed was 'sea kale', a rare species that needs protection.

Bungling Bulgar

A burglar became trapped in a chimney for seven hours while trying to break into a pub, a court heard yesterday. David Gardner, 28, 1.8 metres tall and of average build, had managed to climb down the chimney when he got stuck. Thomas Wrightson, a delivery man, arrived to deliver vegetables to the pub at 6.10 a.m. and heard Gardner's calls. Gardner shouted that he had become stuck while trying to rescue a cat shortly after midnight. Four fire engines were sent to free him

Wild Flatmates

New York has been described as a concrete jungle, but one resident really believed he was in the jungle, as police were called in to remove a tiger and an alligator from his apartment in the 20-storey building. After a phone call from neighbours, police yesterday found the wild animals in the apartment of 31-year-old Antoine Yates. Yates was not in when police abseiled down the side of the building in order to enter the apartment. The animals, who were moved a New York animal home, will eventually be sent to a zoo in Ohio.

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