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Present and Past Tenses
Present and Past Tenses
Read the text and put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense Celin Dion's singing career (0) started (start) in a similar way ti Michael Jackson's. The youngest of fourteen children, she (1) ___________ (begin) performing with her family in the Canadian province of Quebec when she was just twelve years old. By the age of eighteen, she (2) _____________ (produce) nine albums in her native French, but she was still unknown in the English-speaking world. She (3) ____________ (decide) to learn English so she could enter the world of international pop music. Dion does not write her own love songs. She (4) __________ (admire) singers who (5) ___________ (write) their own material, but, for the moment, she is happy to interpret other people's songs. Since she (6) ___________ (become) successful, she says, she (7) ___________ (receive) thousands of songs from writers, so she has plenty of songs to choose from. At the moment she (8) __________ (record) in French and she (9) __________ (want) to introduce her French songs to an English-speaking audience. 2. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous I (0) found (find) this story while I (1) __________ (read) Spotlight the other day. In 1986, a Canadian man (2) __________ (rise) from the sofa where he (3) __________ (fall) asleep, (4) __________ (drive) 14 miles, (5) __________ (kill) his mother-in-law and seriously (6) __________ (injure) his father-in-law. He was charged with murder but aquitted when a court (7) __________ (accept) his lawyer's argument and his physician's evidence that he (8) _______________ (sleepwalk). 3. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. argumentative grumpy tolerant naive reserved flexible stubborn hot-headed courteous level-headed
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My cousin is quite ____________ and doesn't say much. I was very ____________ when I went to university but I'm much more experienced now. The staff at the airport were all very ____________ to us. It was a pleasant surprise. We're lucky to have Jill as an employee. She's ____________ and can change her hours if we need her to. My sister was very ____________ when she was young and got into a lot of trouble. I don't think winning a lot of money will change Sam. He's very ____________ . My dad is so ____________ you'll never persuade him to apologise. In today's society people need to be ______________ and listen to others' points of view. They're being very ____________ today! They've disagreed with everything I've said! Don't be so ____________! You can always find something to smile about.