Put the verb into the correct form, past continuous or past simple.

I met Tom and Jane at the airport a few weeks ago. They were going to Paris and I was going to Rome. We had a cht  while we were waiting for our flights.

I was cycling home yesterday when a man  stepped out into the road in front of me. I went quite fast, but luckily I managed to stop in time and didn't hit him.

I saw Sue in town yesterday, but she didn't see me. She was looking the other way.

Explanation:

In English, the past continuous tense  describe actions that started in the past and they continued for sometime (a short period of time) after the action began. Examples are main verbs and having "-ing": were going, was going, were waiting, etc.

While the simple past tense describes a completed action which took place in a time before now. This is usually the basic form of past tense in English. Examples are met, stepped, managed, etc.

the sun warms our planet, and with the moon, creates the tides. the moon orbits the earth and in turn, the earth orbits the sun. because they appear to be the same size in the sky, the sun, earth and moon work together to create eclipses. when the moon is directly in between the earth and sun