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Charts 3 EDIT. Read the article about Brendon Grimshaw. Find
5.1, 5.4–5.8, and correct eight more errors with the present perfect, the
5.10
present perfect progressive, and the simple past. Moyenne
Island
Seychelles
Brendon Grimshaw and Moyenne Island Indian Ocean

Moyenne Island in the Seychelles was deserted and forgotten for
1
fifty years. Then, in 1964, British newspaper editor Brendon Grimshaw

has bought the island. He moved there nine years later, and lived there ever since.
When Grimshaw moved to Moyenne Island, it has been empty. Small trees and bushes covered

the land, and there weren’t any paths. Grimshaw wanted to take care of the island, so he asked a
local man, Rene Lafortune, to help him. Since the two men have started work, they has planted

16,000 trees. Some of the first trees have now been growing to over 60 feet tall. The two men have
also built more than three miles (5 km) of nature paths.

Grimshaw has been working hard on his project since about forty years, and today Moyenne
Island is a huge success story. Since Grimshaw bought the island, it have attracted about 2000 new

birds. Grimshaw has also raised over 100 giant tortoises on the island.
2
Since 2008, Moyenne Island was a national park. It is a beautiful example of how one person’s

dream can change at least a small area of the world.

1 deserted: empty because of no people living somewhere
2 tortoise: a slowly moving land turtle with a high shell

Brendon Grimshaw bought a deserted island in the Seychelles in 1964. Today, Moyenne Island is a beautiful national park.

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