exercise 2a). You can use the verb be five times. Once upon a time, there 1) was a little boy 2) Johnny. He 3) by the sea. Johnny 4) (-) hear anything. He 5) deaf. He didn't have any friends. He 6) sad because nobody 7) to him. One day, very early in the morning, he 8) along the beach. He 9) at the sea. It 10) warm. He 11) to go swimming. Johnny 12) in. He 13) the fish and the crabs and he 14) up some beautiful shells. Suddenly, there was a dolphin. The dolphin 15) at Johnny Johnny and the dolphin 16) swimming together. Every day after that Johnny came to the beach. The dolphin 17) for him. Johnny 18) never sad again.