Write a verb from the box in each gap in the past simple to complete the text.
be•find•read•build•get•spend•draw•keep•talk•eat•meet•write.
free time then and now
teenagers today often play video games or use the internet.
our grandparents' free time was often a bit different! in the past,
many young people ( in an album, or ( model aeroplanes. they ( or
(, and sometimes ( to
their pen friends. perhaps they ( time making
things, such as clothes. of course, some teenagers today still do
these things, but they are not as popular as they (
not everything was different, though. just like today,
teenagers in the past ( friends and ( together while they (
their lives, their hopes and their dreams. and as they (, they ( had less free time to enjoy. perhaps some things stay the same!
2) built
3)read
4)drew
5)wrote
6)spent
7) were
8)met
9) ate
10)talked
11) got
12)found