10 VIVIAR Present simple and past simplea) Choose the correct tense: present simple or past simple.When I was a boy we(have to/had to) get up off the sofa to change channels becausewe(don't didn't) have a remote control for the TV. We (watch/watched) programmesin black and white. My family(sits/sat) together in one room to watch TV becauseit(is/was) the only one in the house. We often — (argue/argued about which channelto watch. Now we (have/had) three TVs in our house, and we can watch programmeson the computer, too, so there (are/were) no more arguments. This also means that to-day we (don't/didn't) sit together as a family as much, and we — (don't/didn't) talkabout the programmes we watch. In my opinion, that (is/was) a shame.​