My granddad was fishing / fished when he was catching / caught an old wallet with his fishing rod. He was amazed to see it was his own wallet, which he was losing / had lost in the same lake twenty years earlier!

I was studying / had studied at university in California when my sister suddenly decided / was deciding to come and visit me from Hong Kong. I was so surprised because she hadn’t said / wasn’t saying anything about her plans.

2 I was looking / looked for my ring when an old lady came / had come up to me. She was fi nding / had found my ring on her morning walk.

I was jogging / jogged along the beach when suddenly, I realised / had realised I didn’t have my wedding ring. I was dropping / had dropped it on the beach somewhere.