Past Simple or Past Perfect

Choose the correct verb: We ... about it when his telegram arrived.

Choose the correct verb: We ... our lessons by 5 o'clock.

Choose the correct verb: We reached our country house when it ... dark.

Choose the correct verb: Mother and father came home at 8 o'clock yesterday. We ... the flat by that time.

Choose the correct verb: I ... doing my lessons before my parents returned from work.

Choose the correct verb: After the rain ... my friends came to see me.

Choose the correct verb: We ... the town when it began to rain.

Choose the correct verb: Mom phoned Granny yesterday as we ... letters from her for a long time.

Choose the correct verb: Tom ... just ... home when I phoned him.

Choose the correct verb: Terry .... to speak last year.