Worksheets Princess Diana
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   Simple Past

   The Life of Princess Diana

Instructions:

• Find the video:

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• Watch the video. Look at the pictures and read the sentences.
• Write in the simple past forms of the verbs.

1. Diana Frances Spencer ____________________ (be) born on July 1st 1961.
2. She ____________________ (be)  a happy child.
3. Diana’s parents ____________________ (divorce) when she was six years old.
4. Her parents ____________________ (fight) over who got to keep the children.
5. Diana’s father ____________________ (win) custody of the children.
6. She ____________________ (go) to boarding school when she was nine years old.
7. In 1977, Diana ____________________ (graduate) from secondary school.
8. Diana first ____________________ (meet) Price Charles when she was sixteen.
9. They ____________________ (date) for some time.
10. Diana and Charles ____________________ (get) engaged in 1981. Diana ____________________ (be) nineteen years old.
11. They ____________________ (get) married five months later at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
12. 600,000 people ____________________ (come) out to celebrate on the streets of London and hundreds of millions ____________________ (watch) on TV.
13. Diana____________________ (become) part of the royal family.
14. At twenty years of age, Diana ____________________ (give) birth to Prince William.
15. She ____________________ (be) a proud mother.
16. The young Princess ____________________ (seem) happy.
17. But there ____________________ (be) problems with the marriage.
18. Diana ____________________ (give) birth to her second son, known as Harry, when she  ____________________ (be) 23.
19. Diana ____________________ (do) a lot of important charity work.
20. She also ____________________ (meet) many famous people.
21. But her marriage ____________________ (continue)  to get worse.
22. Charles ____________________ (have) an affair.
23. Diana ____________________ (have) an affair, too.
24. Diana ____________________ (feel) ignored by her husband and the royal family.
25. Newspapers and magazines ____________________ (report) on the troubles in the marriage.
26. Charles and Diana ____________________ (separate) in 1992 and then ____________________ (divorce) in 1996.
27.  Diana ____________________ (continue) her charity work. She ____________________ (travel) to different countries to help people.
28. She ____________________ (meet) President Mandela during a trip to South Africa in 1997.
29. On August 31st 1997, Diana, her boyfriend, and their driver ____________________ (die) in a high-speed car crash in a Paris tunnel.
30. She ____________________ (be) only 36 years old.
31. All around the world, newspapers and TV stations ____________________ (report) the sad news.
32. The funeral ____________________ (happen) on September 6th 1997.
33.  Her family and friends ____________________ (attend) the funeral.
34.  Many people ____________________ (leave) flowers outside and the funeral was watched on television in 60 countries around the world.
35. Diana is still  ____________________ (remember) fondly by many people today.