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Morrison gave numerous public lectures, specializing in African-
American literature. She made her debut as a novelist in 1970, soon
gaining the attention of both critics and a wider audience for her
epic power, unerring ear for dialogue, and her poetically-charged
and richly-expressive depictions of Black America. In 1981, she
became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
she awarded a number of literary distinctions, among them the
Pulitzer Prize in 1988. In 1993, she received the Nobel Prize for
Literature. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019. Morrison wrote
more than 10 novels and a great number of short fictions, and
plays, among others.
Adapted from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toni-Morrison
a) When was Toni Morrison born?
b) How many siblings did she have?
c) Where did she study?
d) Where did she work?
e) When did she start writing novels?
f) When did she become a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters?
3.D. Now, underline the verbs from the text and complete the chart:
Present | Past | Present | Past
is was make
display
follow
work
give
become
receive
die
write
4.A. Complete the text using the past tense of TO BE:
When I ______________a child my favorite
hobby ________________playing video
games. I ___________ very good at video
games. My best friends ______________
my neighbors. They ___________ from
Bolivia and their parents _____________
entrepreneurs. They ____________very nice
and we _____________always together. We
______________really happy.
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