7. Match the tenses in bold to their uses. Give more examples: 1) He picked up his jacket, locked the door and left. 2) I was clearing the attic when I came across my first diary. 3) Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1600. 4) When he was young, he rode his bike to work every day. 5) I was watching TV while they were cooking dinner. Uses: a) complete action or event which happened at a stated time in the past; b) past actions which happened one after another; c) past action in progress interrupted by another past action; d) two or more simultaneous past actions; e) past habit or state.

1. b — He picked up his bag, put on his coat and went outside.
2. c — I was walking home when it started to rain.
3. a — Marie Curie discovered radium in 1898.
4. e — When I was a child, I played in the garden every day.
5. d — She was reading while her brother was doing his homework.

Перевод: 1) последовательные действия; 2) действие в процессе, прерванное другим действием; 3) завершённое действие в определённое время в прошлом; 4) привычка или состояние в прошлом; 5) два или более одновременных действия в прошлом.