Стр.27 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс

1. Circle the correct verbs.
2. What do you know about the life of Beethoven, Chopin, George Gershwin? Prepare a talk about one of them.

The correct verbs are:

1. The German composer Handel was living in England when he composed his Water Music.
2. The 1950s singer Buddy Holly was travelling in a plane when it crashed.
3. The singer Hayley Westenra was singing in the streets of Christchurch, New Zealand, when she made her first record.
4. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones met in 1961 when they were waiting for a train.
5. Mozart was composing music before he was five years old.
6. Elvis Presley was doing national service for the US army in Germany when he met his wife, Priscilla.

Grammar note: we use the Past Continuous for an action in progress in the past, especially when it was interrupted by another action in the Past Simple.