2 Read the text and circle the correct answers.
Mary Shelley (1) ... writing Frankenstein in 1816 when
she was 18 years old. At the time, she and her future
husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,
(2) ... in Switzerland with Lord Byron, near Lake
Geneva. Before they got there, they (3) ... a holiday
filled with outdoor activities. But that summer it (4)
... almost every day and the group (5) ... much time
outside. Instead, they (6) ... inside and (7) ... ghost
stories. Mary got the idea for her story while she
(8) .... It was a horror story about a scientist called
Victor Frankenstein and his problems with the monster
which he (9)... from the body parts of dead people and
animals. The book was published anonymously in 1818.
It (10) ... good reviews when it first came out, but it still
became an immediate success.
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1 was starting
started
starts
2 stayed
were staying had stayed
3 had planned
are planning
4 rained
was raining had rained
5 weren't spending hadn't spent didn't spend
6 stayed
were staying had stayed
7 were writing wrote had written
8 dreamt
had dreamt was dreaming
9 did create had created was creating
10 wasn't getting didn't get hadn't got​