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Complete the text using the correct tense. Note, not only past tenses are possible here.
I 1) _____ (bore) in London, in the capital of England and I 2) _____ (live) there until I 3) _____ (leave)
home at the age of 18. My parents 4) _____ (move) to England from China in the 1970s.
As a child I 5) _____ (go) to the local school and, of course, 6) _____ (speak) English with a local
accent, just like all the other children. But at home it was very different. We 7) _____ (live) in
a Chinese environment, with a great extended family of uncles and aunts. I 8) _____ (remember)
feeling part of this big thing called “family”, and an even bigger thing called “China”. I think my
family really 9) _____ (influence) me a lot while I 10) _____ (grow) up. They often talked about
China as “our home” – even though I had never 11) _____ (be) there before.
To me, it 12) _____ (not, seem) at all strange to grow up as part of two cultures. I always
13) _____ (think) that growing up in two cultures is a kind of gift, not a disadvantage. Now
that I 14) _____ (have) a child of my own, I want her to get in touch with her Chinese roots
too, so we _____ (plan) a visit to China later this year. All her Chinese cousins and relatives
15) _____ (look) forward to meeting her.
Complete the text using the correct tense. Note, not only past tenses are possible here.
I 1) _____ (bore) in London, in the capital of England and I 2) _____ (live) there until I 3) _____ (leave)
home at the age of 18. My parents 4) _____ (move) to England from China in the 1970s.
As a child I 5) _____ (go) to the local school and, of course, 6) _____ (speak) English with a local
accent, just like all the other children. But at home it was very different. We 7) _____ (live) in
a Chinese environment, with a great extended family of uncles and aunts. I 8) _____ (remember)
feeling part of this big thing called “family”, and an even bigger thing called “China”. I think my
family really 9) _____ (influence) me a lot while I 10) _____ (grow) up. They often talked about
China as “our home” – even though I had never 11) _____ (be) there before.
To me, it 12) _____ (not, seem) at all strange to grow up as part of two cultures. I always
13) _____ (think) that growing up in two cultures is a kind of gift, not a disadvantage. Now
that I 14) _____ (have) a child of my own, I want her to get in touch with her Chinese roots
too, so we _____ (plan) a visit to China later this year. All her Chinese cousins and relatives
15) _____ (look) forward to meeting her.
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I 1) _____ (was born) in London, in the capital of England and I 2) _____ (had lived) there until I 3) _____ (left) home at the age of 18. My parents 4) _____ (moved) to England from China in the 1970s. As a child I 5) _____ (went) to the local school and, of course, 6) _____ (spoke) English with a local accent, just like all the other children. But at home it was very different. We 7) _____ (lived) in a Chinese environment, with a great extended family of uncles and aunts. I 8) _____ (remember) feeling part of this big thing called “family”, and an even bigger thing called “China”. I think my family really 9) _____ (influenced) me a lot while I 10) _____ (was growing) up. They often talked about China as “our home” – even though I had never 11) _____ (been) there before. To me, it 12) _____ (did not seem) at all strange to grow up as part of two cultures. I have always 13) _____ (thought) that growing up in two cultures is a kind of gift, not a disadvantage. Now that I 14) _____ (have) a child of my own, I want her to get in touch with her Chinese roots too, so we _____ (are planning) a visit to China later this year. All her Chinese cousins and relatives 15) _____ (are looking) forward to meeting her.