(BE) GOOD FRIENDS SINCE THEY STARTED HIGH SCHOOL

10. Kien and Tuyen ……….(be) good friends since they started high

school.

V. Read the text and answer the questions:

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was born in a very poor part of London. His father was a

comedian and his mother worked as a dancer and singer. Neither of them was

very successful, however, and the family had very little money. At one time

they were so poor that he and his brothers had only one pair of shoes between

them and they had to take turns wearing them. The first time he himself earned

money by dancing and singing, he was only five years old. He did many kinds

of jobs, but what he loved most was working in the theatre.

When he was about fifteen he joined a traveling theatre company and went

on trips to America. On one of such tours he was offered a part in a film, so he

went to Hollywood, where he eventually became both an actor and a film

director. He was known to be a perfectionist, and sometimes made the other

actors repeat a scene many times before he was finally satisfied with it.

Many people found him difficult and some accused him of being mean, but

it was really his early experiences of poverty that made him careful with his

money. He died in Switzerland in 1977, at the age of 88. There is now a status

of him in Leicester Square, London, the city of his birth and early upbringing.

His name was Charlie Chaplin.