Question

1 Use the past simple of the verbs in the list
to complete the sentences.

• invent •not paint •die •start
• not discover

1 The artist van Gogh
Wild Poppies. Claude Monet did.
2 Beethoven .....
..... composing
music at an early age.
3 The Spanish artist Diego Velásquez
in 1660.
4 Alexander Graham Bell
the telephone in 1876.
5 Isaac Newton ........
radioactivity.
Henri Becquerel did.

Answer 1

1 didn't paint

2 started

3 died

4 invented

5 didn't discover