1 Complete the text with the past tense of the verbs on the list: live, die, be, help, study, start, call, receive, return, travel, visit, organize, begin Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (1)…… born in Italy in 1820, but as a child she (2) ……… with her family in England In 1849 she (3)………… round Europe and she ………… (4) training as a nurse She (5) ………… in Germany When the Crimean War (6) …………, she (7) ………… medical care in Turkey She (8) ……… to start two new hospitals there from 1854 to 1860 Every night she (9) ………… her patients and they (10) ………… her ‘the Lady with the Lamp’ When she (11) ……… to England, she started her own school for nurses This new school was the first school to give professional education for nurses Florence Nightingale (12)…………… many honours for her work She (13) ………… in London in 1910 In 1915 the government put up a monument in her honour in London Complete the text with the past tense of the verbs on the list: try, marry, be, greet, notice, come, see, say, manage, find, live, call, pull Be careful! One of the verbs is negative King Arthur Many centuries ago there (1)………… no king in England One day the people (2)…… a sword in a rock There were words on the sword which(3) …………: ‘My name is Excalibur Pull me from the rock and you are the king!’ A lot of men (4) ……… to pull the sword, but they (5) ………… to it Then a boy called Arthur (6) ……… the sword He (7)……… the sword with all his might and suddenly it (8) ………… out of the rock When the people (9) ………… Arthur with the Excalibur in his hand they (10) …………… him with happiness because they saw their new king Arthur was a good king He (11) ………… a beautiful queen (12) ……… Guinevere and they (13) ………… in a place called Camelot