Complete the dialogue. Use the present perfect or past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

Max: 1 _____________(you / hear) of a boy called Richie Stachowski?

Lucy: No, why? Is he famous?

Max: Not exactly, but he’s interesting. When he was 10, he 2 _____________(create)

          a gadget for talking underwater.

Lucy: What?!

Max: Well, he was surfing with his dad in Hawaii and he 3 _____________(want) to tell

         him about some of the amazing things he 4 _____________(can) see under the water.

          He 5 _____________(start) researching ways of doing this, and finally invented a ‘water talkie’ gadget.

Lucy: Interesting, and what 6 _____________(he / do) with the invention?

Max: Well, since then, he 7 _____________(manufactured) 50,000 water talkies and sold them to

         a big toy shop and he 8 _____________(invent) several other pool toys too –‘made by a kid for kids’!