song: yellow submarine by the beatles

Before listening: matching Match the following list of verbs to their equivalent in the past. live lived tell told sail sailed find found am was Song: Yellow Submarine Listen to the song and try to recognise the use of those verbs in the past Listen again and complete the lyrics with the missing verbs in the past. You may have to repeat some verbs! In the town where I was bornLived a man who sailed to seaAnd he told us of his lifeIn the land of submarinesSo we sailed up to the sun'Til we found a sea of greenAnd we lived beneath the wavesIn our yellow submarineWe all live in a yellow submarineYellow submarine, yellow submarineWe all live in a yellow submarineYellow submarine, yellow submarineAnd our friends are all aboardMany more of them live next doorAnd the band begins to playWe all live in a yellow submarineYellow submarine, yellow submarineWe all live in a yellow submarineYellow submarine, yellow submarine Read the following text about The Beatles and complete it by putting the verbs in brackets in the simple past The Beatles was (be) an English rock band who started (start) their music career in Liverpool, England in 1960. The members of the band were (be)John Lennon (rhythm guitar), Paul McCartney (bass guitar), George Harrison (lead guitar) and Ringo Starr (drums).The fans also called (call) them the Fab Four. Their first hit was (be)"Please Please Me" in 1963. They became (become) very popular in both Britain and the USA and they recorded(record)13 music albums. The Beatles stopped (stop) touring and playing live music in 1966 because they got (get) tired of fans screaming so loudly that their music could (can) not be heard. They broke (break) up in 1970. They were (be) one of the most successful bands in the history of music.