Read the text and put the verbs in brackets into past simple or past continuous. william tell this is the legend of william tell, the national hero of switzerland. there was a very cruel ruler, hermann gessler. one day his soldiers (arrest) william tell and his son. gessler (know) that tell was an
expert with a crossbow. he (take) tell's son and (put) an apple on his head. he (order) tell to shoot the apple. tell took two arrows and (put) one in his crossbow. he aimed carefully and (hit) the apple without touching the boy. while the people (cheer), gessler asked tell about the second
arrow. tell said "it's for you". gessler was very angry and decided to take tell to his castle on the other side of lake lucerne. while they (cross) the lake, a storm started and tell was able to escape. later, when gessler and his soldiers arrived at the castle, tell (wait) for them there. as
they (walk) along the path to the castle, tell (jump) out. with his crossbow and the second arrow, he (kill) gessler. tell's example encouraged his people to fight for their freedom.