Name: _________________________

Written comprehension + grammar

Dictionary accepted

2) Right or wrong? Justify your answers by quoting the text

3) Grammar:
a) Search for the regular & irregular verbs into the text. No past participles or adjectives!
10 Regular verbs 9 Irregular verbs
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b) Complete the sentences with the correct verb in the Simple Preterit:
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1) Captain Cook __________________________Australia in 1770
2) Barrack Obama ________________________ the first black American President in 2008.
3) French women _______________________ the right to vote in 1945.
4) J.K. Rowling _________________________ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in
1990
5) King Henry VIII _____________________from 1509 to 1547.

c) Put these sentences in the negative form:

1) The Germans won WWII ___________________________________________________
2) Lady Diana was a Queen __________________________________________________
3) Neil Armstrong walked on Mars in 1969
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4) Laurel and Hardy were two famous astronauts
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5) The London Underground closed in 1863.
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