1. Narrative tenses
These are the tenses you use to tell stories that happened in the past, namely:
past simple
past continuous
past perfect
past perfect continuous

2. A thief broke into the office where I work.
He stole lots of things.
I arrived this morning.
I called the police.
This morning, I arrived at work and saw that a thief had broken into the office and stolen lots of things, so I called the police.

3. A man was driving in the rain.
His brakes failed.
He crashed into a tree.
I was driving to work
I saw the accident.
I called an ambulance.
I was driving to work this morning when I saw an accident. A man had been driving in the rain and his brakes had failed, so he had crashed into a tree. I then called and ambulance.

4. 6 – 5 – 2 – 1 – 7 – 8 – 3 – 4 – 9 – 10 It was raining heavily.
The traffic was terrible.
Rainwater accumulated on the streets.
Corifeu was flooded.
It took me longer than usual to get to P3.
I arrived at P3 at 4.20 p.m.
I tried to get into the campus.
I couldn’t.
I called Jamil and cancelled my class.
I went home.

5. 6 – 5 – 2 – 1 – 7 – 8 – 3 – 4 – 9 – 10
That Wednesday, at 4.20 p.m., I arrived at P3.
It had taken me longer than usual to get there. The traffic was terrible, because it had been raining heavily.
I tried to get into the campus, but I couldn’t, because rainwater had accumulated and Corifeu was flooded.
I called Jamil and cancelled my class, and went home.