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Grammar in a text. Complete the text with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

Yesterday I ►(get up) ........................ at 7.00. When I 1(look).........................................out of the
window it 2 (rain).................... ................... exactly like every other day this week.
I 3 (wash)................................ ...... 4 (get dressed).........................................
5 (give)..................................... . the cat his breakfast, and 6 (make).........................................coffee.
7 I (not eat)............................... ...... anything, because I'm never hungry in the morning. Then I
s (go)...................................... to the bus stop and 9 (wait).........................................for the bus. It
io (not arrive)........................... ........... as usual, so I 11 (walk).........................................to the office.
While I 12 (walk)...................... ................ I decided once again that it was time to find another job - one

with a car. When 113 (arrive)..... ................................. nobody 14 (work).........................................-
15 everybody (talk)................. . .................. about the weather. The boss
16 (come in).............................. ....... and 17 (tell).........................................everybody to start working, but
this is (not make).................... ................. much difference. I 19 (sit down).......................................... at my
desk and 20 (start).................. .................. thinking about football.

Q GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY. Make sure you know all the words in the box. Use a dictionary if
necessary. Then try to correct the mistakes. Find the answers on the internet if necessary.

build climb compose discover make invent paint write

► Galileo wrote'Hamlet'. discovered the

.
► Shakespeare discovered the moons of Jupiter. ..^.^}?.e ^ P . ? P . r .............................
1 Mozart built the Eiffel Tower. ...............................................................................................................

2 Leonardo da Vinci directed'Ivan the Terrible'. ......................................................................................

3 Shah Jehan invented dynamite. ..

4 Alfred Nobel wrote the song 'Help'.

5 Sergei Eisenstein built theTaj Mahal.......................................................
6 Gustave Eiffel wrote'Pride and Prejudice'. ...........................................
7 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay composed 'The Marriage of Figaro'.

8 Marie Curie first climbed Mount Everest.....................
9 John Lennon and Paul McCartney discovered radium.

10 The novelist Jane Austen painted the 'Mona Lisa'.

Q Internet exercise. What did these people do? Use a search engine (e.g. Google) to find out the
answers, if necessary.

1 Alexander Fleming..........................................................................................
2 Giuseppe Verdi..........................................................................................
3 Rembrandt van Rijn..........................................................................................
4 Edmund Whymper..........................................................................................

5 Mary Shelley..........................................................................................
6 Stephanie Kwolek..........................................................................................
7 Christopher Wren..........................................................................................
8 Akira Kurosawa..........................................................................................

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