complete the text with the past simple or past perfect

1. complete the text with the past simple or past perfect Waren Buffet, the second richest man in the world has given almost all his $44 billion fortjune away. Buffet buy shares before he be 12 years old, and by the time he be 14, he make his first purchase of land. After he complete his Masters degree at Columbia Business School, he begin his own investment partnership in 1956. Buffet’s wife was going to supervise his charity work and donations but she die in 2004. They not live together since 1977. Buffet has given his fortune to a charity run by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates. Once Gates make a fortune with Microsoft, he set up the Gates Foundation. Before he be 50, Gates give $26 billion to charity. The Gates Foundaiotn is now the biggest charitable trust in the world.

2. complete the text with the past simple or past perfect Waren Buffet, the second richest man in the world has given almost all his $44 billion fortjune away. Buffet had bought shares before he was 12 years old, and by the time he was 14, he had made his first purchase of land. After he completed his Masters degree at Columbia Business School, he began his own investment partnership in 1956. Buffet’s wife was going to supervise his charity work and donations but she died in 2004. They hadnot lived together since 1977. Buffet has given his fortune to a charity run by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates. Once Gates had made a fortune with Microsoft, he set up the Gates Foundation. Before he was 50, Gates had given $26 billion to charity. The Gates Foundation is now the biggest charitable trust in the world.

3. match the sentence halves • By the time they got to the cinema… • He stayed out late… • By the end of his first year at university… • I’d just gone to sleep… • After I’d booked the tickets… • after I’d told him not to. • when the phone rang and woke me up. • the film had already started. • she changed her mind and said she wanted to eat out instead. • he’d already decided he didn’t want to be a doctor.

4. give the correct tense • We launched the second version once we see how successful the first one was. • By the time he apply the job had already gone. • He called while I try to finish this essay. • After he invest more money, the business took off. • The entrepreneur give another billion dollars to charity after had had already given three billion. • We didn’t need to clean the house, because he do it. • I studied business in the evening while I work in a kitchen. • She left before anyone have a chance to explain the situation. • The business go bankrupt last month and they couldn’t save it. • All last year, the company look for ways to survive the crises.

5. give the correct tense • We launched the second version once we had seen how successful the first one was. • By the time he applied the job had already gone. • He called while I was trying to finish this essay. • After he had invested more money, the business took off. • The entrepreneur gave another billion dollars to charity after had had already given three billion. • We didn’t need to clean the house, because he had done it. • I studied business in the evening while I was working in a kitchen. • She left before anyone had a chance to explain the situation. • The business went bankrupt last month and they couldn’t save it. • All last year, the company looked for ways to survive the crises.

6. speakging practice • By the age of five, I … • By the age of ten, I … • By the age of fifteen, I …

7. Choose the correct verb in each group. There may be more than one correct in each • go / make / found … bankrupt • do / launch / go into … a company • launch / introduce / found … a product • make / go into / launch … a profit • negotiate / found / run … a contract