Exercise 1: Complete the text. Use the correct form of past simple or past continuous of the verbs in the list.
be | pick him up | stand | notice | run | sit
I (0) was sitting in Science class last week when suddenly there (1) ………… a lot of shouting. Two girls (2) …………………on the desk and that’s when I (3) ………………… Steve. He (4) ……………………up and down the classroom. So I (5) ……………………and put him back in his home – Steve’s the school mouse!