Past simple and past continuous: For each gap (1–5), write the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. The other day, I [sit] __________1 in a meeting when I started to feel ill. We [discuss] __________2 a difficult problem at the time: we needed to increase the number of staff, but there wasn’t enough space in the office for any new workers. Everyone [think] __________3 it was too expensive to rent more office space. Because I was unwell, I [decide] __________4 to leave and take some work home with me. While I [walk] __________5 home, the solution suddenly came to me: why not let people work from home some of the time? That way, we wouldn’t need so much office space and we could employ more people.