Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs below. Then listen again and check.
be | buy | emigrate | fall | get | get | start |
grow up | leave | move | not go | not leave | not retire |
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1. My grandparents______________from Pakistan in the 1960s.
2. She______________home until last summer, when she______________married.
3. I ______________In the village where my family has lived for generations.
4. They managed to save quite a bit of money and eventually______________a small farmhouse with some land.
5. They ______________in love, ______________engaged after a week and were married a month later.
6. I ______________brought up by my mom after she______________back to the UK.
7. They ______________school at 16 and ______________to university.
8. They ______________a successful business and______________until they were in their seventies.
1 emigrated
2 didn't leave - got
3 grew up
4 bought
5 fell - got
6 was - moved
7 left - didn' tgo
8 started - didn't retire
