Cuando era niño, (1) (enfermarse) todo el tiempo. mis padres me (2) (llevar) al consultorio, pero nunca (3) (ser) nada grave. una vez, mientras jugaba en el patio de la escuela yo (4) (caerse) y (5) (romperse) un brazo. mi madre (6) (tener) que llevarme rápidamente a la sala de emergencia porque me dolía mucho.

1. Me enfermaba

2. Me llevaban

3. Era

4. Me caí

5. Me rompí

6. Tuvo

Explanation:

In this exercise you have to complete the paragraph with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. In this case, all the verbs are in the past tense. Verbs 1, 2 and 3 are in the imperfect past tense (pretérito imperfecto in Spanish) and verbs 4, 5 and 6 are in the simple past (pretérito perfecto simple in Spanish).

The simple past tense is used when the action you are talking about happened on a specific moment and are already completed. And the imperfect past tense is used, in this case, when you are talking about actions that were habitual.