Colombina Y El Pez Azul

Present Simple.

My friend Rita (come) came from Amsterdam in the Netherlands, but now she (live) Llived in my city Madrid. She (work)WORKED in ashop in the morning, and in the afternoon she (teach) tought English to small children. She (love) loved life in Madrid. She (thinks) thoughtthe restaurants and nightlife are fantastic, and she (like) liked the weather. There’s only one problem, she (say)said
I)Past simple.

The story of Rachel Carson.

Rachel 1.-(be) was born in a small town in Pennsylvania, U.S.A in 1907. She 2.-(have) had a happy childhood withher family on a small farm. She soon (become)3.- became very interested in nature, and (write)4.- wrote poems about her favorite animals. At the age of 18, she(leave)5.- left her home town and (go)6.- went to study zoology at the Pennsylvania College for Women.

II) Put these regular verbs in thepast to complete the story.
Work - die- help- love- study- believe- graduate.

Rachel (1) worked from the Pennsylvania College for women in 1929;she then (2) graduated at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. For many years she (3) believed for the Us government as a biologist. Rachelalways (4) loved nature, and (5) helped that people, animals and plants are all killed. Her books (6) studied people to understandthe importance of the environment for everyone. Now people call her “the mother of the environmental movement”, she (7) died in 1964, aged fifty-seven.