Complete the news stories with the correct past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

Решение:

• 1. A 70-year-old woman was calling (call) an ambulance because her wet clothes were hanging (hang) outside to dry.
• 2. She said (say) it was too cold for her to go out and bring them in!
• 3. The police received (receive) a call from a man who was eating (eat) a takeaway pizza. There were mushrooms on the pizza which he hadn't ordered, and he wanted (want) the police to make the takeaway restaurant give him another one.
• 4. Ella Grayson's son, Dan, was lying (lie) in bed one morning, although it was time to get up for school. Ella asked (ask) the police to come and get him out of bed.
• 5. The police gave (give) her a fine for wasting their time!