I was watching TV (imperfect) when you phoned (perfect.) Il jouait au foot quand il est tombé. – He was playing football (imperfect) when he fell over (perfect).

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The imperfect tense is different to the perfect tense because it tends to be used to describe one particular event in the past, rather than things that have happened in the past in general.

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