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Behind the story of Free Hugs

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Here is the story of how the Free Hugs campaign started. Do you remember the correct past form of the verbs in parenthesis? Read and complete the text. To check your answers, click here.

 

 

When Juan Mann 1........... (arrive) at Sydney Airport, nobody 2. .......... (be) there to say hello and welcome him back to Australia. He 3. .......... (see) all the other passengers hugging and kissing their families and friends, and 4. .......... (feel) very sad and lonely. So Juan 5. .......... (decide) to stand on one of the busiest corners in Sydney, holding a sign which 6. .......... (say) “Free Hugs”. At first, people 7. .......... (be) surprised and a little suspicious, so nobody 8. .......... (want) to hug him. Then a lady 9. .......... (come) and 10. .......... (give) him a big hug (you can see her in the video). She 11. .......... (say) she was very sad because her dog had died that day, and that she really 12. .......... (need) a hug.

 

People soon 13. .......... (realized) that the “Free Hugs” campaign 14. .......... (be) a very good idea, and many 15. .......... (want) to participate. One day, however, the police 16. .......... (arrive) and 17. .......... (tell) Juan that he 18. .......... (can not) stay there anymore, and that he 19. .......... (have) to leave. He 20. .......... (be) very disappointed, because he 21. (not want) to stop hugging people. So, he 22. .......... (start) a petition and 23. .......... (ask) people in the streets to sign it. They 24. ..........(collect) 10,000 signatures and Juan was allowed to continue his campaign.

 

He then 25. .......... (meet) Shimon Moore, a musician who 26. .......... (play) in a band called ‘Sick Puppies’, and they 27. ..........(become) friends. When Juan’s grandmother 28. .......... (die), Moore 29. .......... (put) Juan’s video on YouTube to try to cheer him up. It 30. .......... (be) a huge success. The clip first 31. .......... (appear) on September 22, and since then more than 14 million people have seen it. Moore 32. .......... (use) one of Sick Puppies’ songs, “All the Same”, and now many people in the world know his band too!

 

The “Free Hugs” campaign exists in many countries now, with people holding signs in busy streets and offering free hugs to anyone passing by. Here in Belo Horizonte, a group of young people 33. .......... (do) that on December 16, at Praça Sete, and similar events 34. .......... (take) place in many other Brazilian cities.

 

May 22 is “Hug Day”, but any day is an excellent day to hug people and tell them how important they are in our lives. So get up and hug!

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