Complete the text by filling in the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in the box: when somebody's phone rang, what happened?

Ответ:

When I was walking home, I saw a beautiful bird. It was sitting in a tree when somebody's phone rang. While I was looking at it, the bird flew away.

Правило: Past Continuous обозначает действие, которое длилось в определённый момент в прошлом: was/were + глагол с окончанием -ing. Past Simple обозначает короткое завершённое действие, которое произошло во время другого действия.

Ответ: was walking, saw, was sitting, rang, was looking, flew.