b. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the present perfect.
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Alex Morton is a talented writer who 1) .......
(lead) a very interesting life. He was born in 1945 in
Manchester, and he was the youngest of six children. From
the moment he could read, he was never without a book in
his hands. He was an avid reader throughout his
schooldays, and he soon 2)
(show) his
talent for writing, too. In fact, his teachers 3)...
(give him extra assignments just to be able to read more
of his work.
After he 4)
(leave) school he went to
Manchester University. By the time he got his BA, he had
already published a number of short stories, and his first novel was
almost finished. Over the next few years he 5) .......
(write) non-stop and each of his books was more successful than the last.
Despite being so busy with his work, Alex still 6) .....
(find) time
for romance. He met Fiona Jones while he was at university and they were
married in 1971. They have two children. He 7) ....
(always/be) a devoted husband and father.
Alex Morton 8)........
(write) over twenty books
(be) on the best seller
so far and his name 9)
list more times than he can remember. However, the pinnacle of his career
(win) the Booker Prize for Fiction in
was when he 10).
(continue) to write and
1995. Since then, Alex 11)
....
(be/made) into films.
many of his books 12)
You can talk about his/her:​