Keanu Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on the 2nd September 1964. His mother , Patricia, was English. His father, Sam, was Hawaii and his name, Keanu, is Hawaiian for �cool wind in the mountains �. He (1. live )............................. in many different places in his life. In 1966, his family (2. live )....................... in Australia for a year. Then Keanu �s parents ( 3.get )...............divorced and his mother ( 4.take ).................  her two children to New York. There, she (5. marry )......................... her second husband, Paul, a Hollywood film director. Two years later, they (6. go ) .............................to live in Toronto, Canada and Keanu                              (7. become) .................. Canadian.

When he was a teenager, eanu ( 8. love ).................. hockey and theatre.He (9.  not like ) ........................................... studying, and ( 10. leave ) ...............................school to become an actor when he was 17. His first actingjob was dancing in a cola advertisement.Keanu(11.  go )............................to Hollywood in 1986. He (12.  act ) .............................in many films and most famouse for the Speed and Matrix films.

Keanu (13. always / love ) ....................... music but he didn �t start playing the bass guitar until he was 23.

He (14. start ) .......................... a rock band Dogstar with 2 friends. They (15. make )............................records and done a lot of concerts. He �s got a lot of different interests. He like riding horses, surfing and (16. study ) ................ kung-fu for his films.

 

Thank you so much!!!! 

 

 

On #13, "has always loved" is also correct, and fits the instructions to use  present perfect or past simple. Either answer works grammatically, because the events could be considered as sequential or not.

 

On #16, "studying" is the only correct answer, and it isn �t either of those tenses, so that one can �t follow the instructions. 

 

Bruce 

Absolutely, Bruce, and not only that: there are a few typos, omissions and grammatical/lexical errors ("His father, Sam, was Hawaii", "he like..."...) which also need to be addressed before the exercise is given out to students.

 

 

Mom: Son, There was a car accident this morning and I need to tell you something...

 

Son: Yes Mom?

 

Mom: It �s about your homework...you know when you wrote "My dog Rover has lived with us since I was born" ?

 

Son: Yes?

 

Mom: Well, you need to change that to "lived".

 

 ;-)

Bruce