Exercise 3. Complete the sentences, using one of the following verbs in the correct form.
bite | buy | cost | drive | forget | make | sleep | take | teach | write |
1. This jacket? Oh, I it in one of those little boutiques.
2. I’m afraid I too many photos on the trip.
3. I’m not going there again. Her dog me, you know!
4. Shakespeare Hamlet at the end of the sixteenth century.
5. The policeman through the fog slowly and carefully.
6. Mike’s father him to play the trumpet.
7. “Was it very expensive?” “Yes, it a fortune.”
8. There was nowhere to stay, so I in the back of the car.
9. “Did you turn off the lights?” Sorry, I .”
10. I a mistake, but luckily nobody noticed.
Exercise 2. Choose the correct verbs from the box to complete the text about Eva Peron.
1. found | 3. was | 5. loved | 7. died | 9. became | 11. helped |
2. got | 4. went | 6. fell | 8. knew | 10. wanted | 12. met |
Maria Eva Duarte was born in a small town in Argentina on 17 May 1919. Her family was very poor, and she (1.) to become rich and famous, so she (2.) to live in Buenos Aires. Here she (3.) work as an actress. In a short time she (4.) all the important people in the capital. When she (5.) Juan Peron, he (6.) in love with her and soon they (7.) married. She (8.) him in his career, and he (9.) President in 1946. Many poor Argentinians (10.) Eva Peron- they called her Evita. By now she (11.) one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She (12.) of cancer on 26th July 1952, at the age of thirty-three.