Before reading Thomas Edison Biography

Task one:
Choose the right word to complete these sentences.
Thomas Edison was a famous ………………….
a) doctor b) writer c) painter d) inventor.
He invented the first ………………….
a) car b) camera d) electric light bulb d) telephone.
During reading
Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio in the United States of America. He started school at
the age of eight but he hated it because on his first day the teacher called him stupid. After that,
he stayed at home a lot of the time and had lessons from his mother. He also read a lot of science
books at home. He went back to school but he never liked it very much. He left school forever at
the age of 12. He began inventing things at the age of 19. In 1877 he invented the phonograph,
a sort of CD player. Two years later he made the world`s first electric light bulb and New York
became the first city to have electric light. He died in 1931.
Task one: read the text then fill in the form.

Name :
Surname :
Date of birth:
Place of birth:
Nationality :
Date of death:
Inventions: -
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Task two: read the text then fill in the table.

Dates Activities
1855
1859
1866
1877
1879
1931
Task three: pick out , from the text, all the verbs.
verbs infinitive verbs infinitive
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3 10
4 11
5 12
6 13
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Task four: classify the verbs into :

Regular verbs:

Irregular verbs:

Task five: add (d) , (ed) or (ied) to form the past of regular verbs.
Watch finish play study try paint live

Task six: classify these verbs according to the final (d)

/ t/ /d/ /id/

Task seven: match these irregular verbs with their past.

go did
see wrote
take made
buy went
do saw
write took
make bought
Task eight: write the verbs in brackets in the past
Charlie Chaplin( to be)……..born in 1889. His parents( to be)…………artists. The Chaplin
family( to live) ……...in London. They (to be) ……….very poor, so Charlie ( to start)……......
working very young. At the age of 15, he( to buy)………….. a camera and ( to take) ……...
pictures of people. Eight years later, he( to go) ………….to USA and (to make) …….
Famous films there. He ( to die) ……….. in 1977

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