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.
fong
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
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