Read the article below. List all the verbs in the past simple. Which are regular? Which are irregular? How do we form the negative and interrogative forms of the past simple?
b) Match the past simple verb forms in the text to their uses:
• actions which happened at a specific time in the past
• actions which took place immediately one after the other. What other uses of the past simple can you think of? Give examples.
One day last June, it started raining hard and it didn't stop. The news report said that around 2 months' worth of rain fell in just 8 hours and caused terrible flooding.
I remember that day really well. At around 10 o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on the door. I answered the door and our neighbour, Mr Stevens, told us to leave our house because he was afraid the river would burst its banks and flood the town. My mother got dressed quickly and went to get the car out of the garage, while I ran across the street to warn the neighbours. My mother met me with the car and we drove to the hill where we were safe. Suddenly, we heard the terrible roar of the water as it knocked the lampposts down, and everything went dark. This was about 11:15 pm. We sat in our car until daylight came. Then we went home.
There was a lot of damage to our house and to other houses in the neighbourhood. The first floor of our house was completely underwater. We had to throw away most of our furniture, and we lost all of our old pictures, which was very sad. It took us the rest of the summer to clean the house and garden. It was a terrible experience but we were all so relieved that we were safe.

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