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Past Simple Tense 1. Supply The Correct Past Tense Form of The Verb Suggested
Past Simple Tense 1. Supply The Correct Past Tense Form of The Verb Suggested
2. Who was Charles Wedgwood? Complete his biography by putting the verbs in the past simple
tense
He …………..(be) born in England on February 12th, 1809. His first name ………….. (be)
Charles. His father’s family name was Wedgwood, but later he ……………. (choose) to use his mother’s
family name.
He …………….. (not/be) very good at school, and he ………………….. (change) schools many
times. At university he …………………. (become) interested in science and …………….. (start)
collecting beetles.
When he ……………… (be) 22 years old, he …………… (get) a job as a naturalist on a ship ‘
The Beagle’. He …………………… (spend) five years travelling around the world. He later …………..
(call) this the most important event in his life.
During the trip he ………………….. (observe) plants and wildlife. He …………….. (fill)
notebooks with observations and drawings. He ……………… (be) fascinated by the enormous Galapagos
tortoises. These, and the birds he ………………. (watch) on his voyages, ………………. (be) the starting
point for a new theory of life.
In 1858 he …………………….. (publish) his most important work:’The Origin of the Species’In
it he ………………. (outline) the theory of evolution. Many of his fellow scientists ……………….
(disagree) with his findings.
Twelve years after publishing ‘The Origin of the Species’, he …………………. (publish) ‘The
Descent of Man’. This book ………………. (take) the theory of evolution and ………………. (apply) it
to humans. He …………….. (be) worried how the Church would react to the suggestion that humans had
evolved from apes. This controversy continues today.
Charles ………………… (die) on April 19th, 1882.