Simple Past or Past Progressive

Simple Past (einfache Vergangenheit): abgeschlossene Handlung in der Vergangenheit;
 --> Ex.: go --> went (2. Verbform )
Past Progressive (Verlaufsform in der Vergangenheit): andauernde Handlung in der Vergangenheit; --> Ex.: go --> was going (Form von 'to be' + verb+ing)

Put in the blanks the simple past or past progressive forms.

Mrs May, our District Nurse (1)______________ ( drive) home at 3 a.m. one night after an urgent visit to a sick patient.
 She was driving along a deserted country lane, when she (2)______________ ( see) a new kind of animal. She (3)______________  (stop) her car and (4)______________  (get) out. The animal (5)______________ (is) clearly visible in the blaze of her headlights. It (6)______________  (look) like a hedgehog ( Igel) with a tall wild hat. When she was going close to it,she (7)______________  (notice) that there (8)______________ ( is) a plastic yoghurt pot on the hedgehog's head. The poor creature had got its head stuck in the plastic pot! Her instinct as a nurse (9)______________  (tell) her, she would have to rescue it, so she (10)______________ ( pull) at the pot but the hedgehog was pulling, too. After a struggle she (11)______________ ( pull) the pot off the hedgehog's head. She (12)______________  (think) the hedgehog (13)______________ (look) rather sad when she (14)______________  (notice) that the pot (15)______________ (is) half full of strawberry yoghurt. She (16)______________ (give) it back to the hedgehog. The creature (17)______________  (seize) it, put it on its head again, and triumphantly (18)______________ (continue) its journey across the road.

   gave   got   looked   looked   noticed   noticed   pulled   saw   seized   stopped   thought   told   was   was   was   was continuing   was driving   was pulling

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Put in the blanks the simple past or past progressive forms.

Mrs May, our District Nurse was driving ( drive) home at 3 a.m. one night after an urgent visit to a sick patient. She was driving along a deserted country lane, when she saw ( see) a new kind of animal. She stopped  (stop) her car and got  (get) out. The animal was (is) clearly visible in the blaze of her headlights. It looked  (look) like a hedgehog ( Igel) with a tall wild hat. When she was going close to it,she noticed  (notice) that there was ( is) a plastic yoghurt pot on the hedgehog's head. The poor creature had got its head stuck in the plastic pot! Her instinct as a nurse told  (tell) her, she would have to rescue it, so she was pulling ( pull) at the pot but the hedgehog was pulling, too. After a struggle she pulled ( pull) the pot off the hedgehog's head. She thought  (think) the hedgehog looked (look) rather sad when she noticed  (notice) that the pot was (is) half full of strawberry yoghurt. She gave (give) it back to the hedgehog. The creature seized  (seize) it, put it on its head again, and triumphantly was continuing (continue) its journey across the road.