Historical Fact or fiction?

- Let's practice the past simple (affirmative statements): put the verbs into the past simple, then try to find out which two sentences are false.

1) The White House (be) ............. originally grey before they (paint) ............... it white.

2) The French revolution (start) ..................... in 1788.

3) Yuri Gagarin (be) ...................... the first man to travel into space.

4) Gandhi (study) .......................... in England when he (be) ............. a young man.

5) Chistopher Columbus first (arrive) ............................ in America in 1392.

6) Mozart (grow) ......................... up in Austria.










Answers:

1) was, painted                                      2) started                                         3) was

4) studied, was                                      5) arrived                                         6) grew

The false ones are:

2) It started in 1789                           5) It was in 1492.