TASK 2

Complete the exercise     LEVEL 2B      PRINT IT! 

Fill the gaps with the Past Simple of the verb that you find in the clue ¿?.

(be(2), dedicate, win, result, write, can not, record, take, graduate, come, sell,want, think, begin, designate, provide, be, return, become)

Shakira is perhaps the most recognizable voice in Latin pop/rock today. When she [?] only 8, she [?] her first song called "Tus gafas oscuras", to her father. Two years later, she [?] local and national talent contests. By 13, she had signed a record deal with Sony in Colombia, which [?] in her first album, "Magia (Magic)", a compilation of songs she [?] between 8 and 13 years old.
She was chosen to represent her country at the Festival OTI in Spain. But she was under the minimum age of 16 and she [?] participate. So instead, Shakira [?] a second album of original material, "Peligro (Danger)". At that point, Shakira [?] a break from music, [?] from high school (at age 15-really) and [?] back with a vengeance. The result was the phenomenally successful "Pies Descalzos" which [?] more than four million copies worldwide.
In addition, this determined girl [?] to try her luck as an actress in "Oasis", a soap opera, but she [?] music was her life instead of TV. Then she [?] to be very popular: the Colombian government [?] Shakira as an official goodwill ambassador.

Her first English-language album, Laundry Service (2001), [?]Shakira with the success in the United States, selling more than 200,000 copies in the first week. The songs "Whenever, Wherever" and "Underneath Your Clothes" [?] both big hits.

Shakira [?] to the top 10 of the albums chart in 2005 twice.

Her hit "Waka Waka" from her 2010 album Sale el Sol [?] the theme song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Do you like her music? Why?

Taken from Isabel Pérez web site