Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple or the Past Continuous. (Đặt các động từ trong ngoặc thành thì quá khứ đơn hoặc quá khứ tiếp diễn.)

David and Lucy threw a party for their mum’s 40th birthday last weekend. They 1) _________________ (decorate) the house when their cousins 2) _________________ (come) to help. At 4 o’clock, David 3) _________________ (prepare) a special meal and Lucy 4) _________________ (wrap) their mum’s present. Their cousins 5) _________________ (blow) up balloons. At 6 o’clock. They 6) _________________ (sit) in the living room when someone 7) _________________ (knock) on the door. It was their uncle, Tom, and his band. By the time David and Lucy’s mum 8) _________________ (get) home, everything was ready and all the guests were there.