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1. Written test
Nombre: ________________________________________ Grade: _____________________ Fecha: _________________
1- Change the verbs in brackets into past from. (1 point each)
When Elvis Presley ______________ (die) on 16th august, 1977, radio and television programmers all
over the world _______________ (be) interrupted to give the news of this death. President carter
__________ (was) asked to declare a day of national mourning. Carter _____________ (say): Elvis
_____________ (change) the face of American popular culture…
He __________ (be) unique and irreplaceable. Eighty thousand people ______________ (attend) his
funeral. The streets ___________ (be) jammed with cars, and Elvis Presley films _______ (be) shown on
television, and his records ____________(be) played on the radio all day. In the year after his death, 100
million Presley LPs were sold.
Elvis Presley ___________(be) born on January 8th, 1935, un tupelo, Mississippi. His twin brother, Jesse
garon, ____________(die)at birth. Hisparents __________(be)very poor and Elvisnever _______(have)
music lessons, but he _________ (be) surrounded by music from an early age. His parents _________
(be) very religious, and Elvis regularly __________ (sing) at the church service. In 1948, when he
________ (be) thirteen, his family ____________ (move) to Memphis, Tennessee. He ______________
(leave) the school in 1953 and _______________(get) a job as truck driver. In the summer of 1953 Elvis
___________ (pay) and ________________ (record) two songs for his mother´s birthday at Sam Philips’s
sun records studio.
Sam Philips ___________ (hear) Elvis and ______________ (ask) him to record. That is all right in July
1954. 20,000 copies _____________ (be) sold. Mainly in and around Memphis.
He _________________ (make) five more records for sun, and in July 1955 he _____________ (meet)
colonel tom parker; who _________________ (become) his manager in November.
Parker _______________ (sell)Elvis’s contract to RCA Records. Sun records _____________ (get) $5,000.
With the money he __________________ (buy) a pink Cadillac for his mother. On January 10th, 1956,
Elvis ___________________ (record) heart break hotel, and a million copies _______________ (be) sold.
In the next fourteen months he _____________ (make) another fourteen records, and the ________ (be)
all big hits. Then, he _________________ (spend) the next two years in Germany, where he
_______________ (meet) Priscilla beaulieu who _____________ (become) his wife eight years later. In
1960 he ___________________ (leave) the army and _____________ (go) to Hollywood where he
_________________ (make) several films during the next few years.
2- Answer the following questions using the past form of verbs. (2 points each)
I. ¿Where did Elvis meet his wife?
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II. ¿What was the name of his manager?
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III. ¿Where was he born?
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IV. ¿What was Elvis’s first job?
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2. V. ¿When did Elvis record his first songs?
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VI. ¿How was his funeral?
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VII. ¿Where did his family move?
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