Past Simple:
1) Last summer I was in Paris.
2) Yesterday, I woke up at about 7 o'clock.
3) I didn't go to the cinema with my boyfriend yesterday.
4) I couldn't sleep last night.
Past Continuous:
1) I was working in New York this time last year.
2) He was listening to the radio at five o’clock yesterday.
3) You weren’t doing anything all day long.
4) While they were reading newspapers I was talking on the phone.