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Mozart Biography
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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
was, were
been
Become
become
became
Begin
began
begun
Get
gotten
got
Give
gave
given
Have
has
had
Make
made
make
Write
written
wrote