YOU SAID:
my dad wants to eat chips
INTO JAPANESE
私の父がチップを食べたいです。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My father wanted to eat chips.
INTO JAPANESE
私の父は、チップを食べていました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My father was eating chips.
INTO JAPANESE
私の父は、チップを食べていた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My father was eating chips.
Come on, you can do better than that.