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Mozart Biography

Complete the biography with the past forms of the verbs in parentheses:

 

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      Woffgang Amadeus Mozart (1.be)   born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. Mozart (2. be)

 a musical prodigy. He (3. begin)  playing the piano when he (4. be)  only three years old.

At five, he (5. write)  his own music.

Mozart (6. play)  for the rich and for royaltry. As a teenager, he (7. write)  and completed his

first opera. He (8. continue)  to write great songs as an adult, but he (9. not/become)

famous. Mozart (10. get married)  when he (11. be)  26 years old and he (12.

have)  two sons. He (13. not/make)  much money from his compositions. Mozart (14. get)

 sick and (15. die)  on December 5, 1791, in Vienna, Austria. Mozart (16. give)  one of his

students instructions on  how to complete his last work, the Requiem Mass.

 
 
Choose the correct past form:

                                                 

                                                                  Be        
 
                                                                  Become
 
                                                                  Begin     
 
                                                                  Get      
 
                                                                  Give     
                                                                  
                                                                  Have     
                                                                
                                                                  Make     
 
                                                                  Write