TELL ME A STORY

Parvana’s family lives a complicated situation: her father is in prison, and the three women are alone with a baby. The Taliban make things more difficult because they don’t allow women in the streets without a male member of her family, which is sad and discouraging. For this reason, Parvana invents a story to cheer her family up, the story of Sulayman, who is a brave boy that must help the villagers and defeat the Elephant King. Read the beginning of the story and fill the blanks with the verbs from the list. Most verbs are in the simple tense past.
ATTENTION: THE VERBS "THERE WAS" AND "ATE" ARE USED TWICE

One time, in the distant past, a little village at the foot of the Hindu Kush mountains. The villagers had just to gather precious seeds and so dancing and singing and laughing and eating.
Everyone happy! Especially for one boy who and and and more than anyone else.
While the villagers and singing and laughing and eating,monsters . The monsters frightened the donkeys and the trees. They the most precious thing in the whole village,the seeds for next year's crop. And they back to the Hindu Kush mountains where their master , the dreadful Elephant King with spikes for tusks!