День: 17 октября 2024

Complete the sentence with used to a verb from the list.

write spend

work

hold

help

act

teach

tell

do

Charles Dickens, the novelist, ased to write until early in the morning, and then go for long walks across London.

in some of his own plays. William Shakespeare used to act

The German philosophu Immanuel Kant used to do same time every day, so that people used to set exactly the same things at the their watches by his actions.

The author Agatha Christle used to help her second husband with his archaeological

excavations. The novelist James Joyce vsed to teach English in the Italian city of Trieste, and some

people say that he used to tell his students the wrong meanings of words as a joke.

The novelist Marcel Proust used to write In a special soundproof room.

The ancient Greek philosophers used to hold Is The Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov used to spend their classes outside in the open air. bis free time studying and catching

moths and butterflies.

5 Complete the sentence with used to the verb in brackets in positive, negative or question form.

a What things (be) ased to be different in the past?

b For a start, all the continents (form) used to form one large land mais.

Obviously, there (be) ose to be the Earth cities and buildings, and forest covered a third of

d. The climate was different, and animals such as the lilppopotamus and thinoceros (estst) used to exist in northern Europe.

Many mountains in Europe (hejused to be active volcanoes,

Early people (live) didn’t use to live In complex societtes, but in small groups in places

where they could find food. What (cat did early people use to eat, They (cat) used to eat whatever they could find.

hEarly pesaple (stay) didn’t use to stay in the same place, but (travel) uned to travel distances, following the animals they needed for food.

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6 Complete the text with the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

The Vikings in America

Acconting to Viking conds, mund the year 1,000, while some Viking sailors Dook for) were looking for

the coon of Gecenland, they breach) mached the eastern coast of Amernica. While they

live were twing there, they of (trybied

to trade with the local Native Americans,

known by the Vilkongs as Skraelings, hut ut the end the Native Americans (fight) fought them out. Aler several anempes to mom, the Whings them and drive drove

in

the semant of one of the Viking settlements, and

give up) gave up

In 1966, while some atchanologists h (work) were working

Newfoundland, they (discover) discovered prove proved that the cory was true

Charles-Marie de la Condamine

In 1735 Chartes-Marie de la Condamine (sail soiled America. At that Viene, scientiris largue) were arguing

South

about the shape

of the Earth. The French Academy m (want)

warned him to take memmernes on the Expater, along with

we other scientists. The work

(tale) took them eight years and in the end. another

orific team o Chul) found

Douk for were looking

was traveling heme

Gearn) leamed

the awwer they

While de la Condamine Omnel)

along the River Amazon, he

many interesting things about the local people und their way of Ide When he (are) amived Pans 1745

hee (receive) received hetus welcome