Exercise B Fill in the gaps with the simple past form of the verb in brackets.
Sleeping Beauty
Once upon a time a king and a queen (1)
(live) in a
castle. They (2)
want) children and one day their
baby princess was born. They (3)
(be) very happy
and they (4)
(invite) all the fairies to the castle
for a party. Unluckily, one wicked fairy
(5)
(not receive)
an invitation. She (6).
(be) very angry and put an evil
spell on the princess. She said,
"When you are sixteen, you
will prick your finger and die!" But
a good fairy (7)-
(change)
the spell. She said, "The princess will sleep for 100 years." The
king and queen (8).
(try) to protect the princess by
taking away all the needles. People (9)
(not use) needles at all. But one day, on her sixteenth birthday
