Complete the following
exercise using
regular verbs
to Asia
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1. Marcus
I arrivel
2. My parenst
3. Our troin
Brazil
1983
in for two hours
Ishop
Respuestas
Respuesta:Here's another exercise about the past simple of irregular verbs. It's to practise the second 25 of my list of 50 common verbs.
Review the list of 50 irregular verbs on this page or download the list in PDF here.
Finally, click here to download the exercise in PDF with answers.
Here's another exercise about the past simple of irregular verbs. It's to practise the second 25 of my list of 50 common verbs.
Review the list of 50 irregular verbs on this page or download the list in PDF here.
Finally, click here to download the exercise in PDF with answers.
Explicación: Do you like to travel by airplane? Why or why not?
2. What are the names of some famous inventors?
Before
You Read
The Wright Brothers—Men with a Vision
Over 100 years ago, people only dreamed
about flying. The Wright brothers, Wilbur and
Orville, were dreamers who changed the world.
Wilbur Wright was born in 1867 and
Orville was born in 1871. In 1878, they
received a paper flying toy from their father.
They played with kites and started to think
about the possibility of flight.
When they were older, they started a bicycle
business. They used the bicycle shop to design their airplanes. They studied
three aspects of flying: lift, control, and power. In 1899, they constructed
their first flying machine—a kite made of wood, wire, and cloth. It had no
pilot. Because of wind, it was difficult to control. They continued to study
aerodynamics.1
Finally Wilbur designed a small machine with a gasoline
engine. Wilbur tried to fly the machine, but it crashed. They fixed it and
flew it for the first time on December 17, 1903, with Orville as the pilot. The
airplane remained in the air for twelve seconds. It traveled a distance of 120
feet. This historic flight changed the world. However, only four newspapers
in the U.S. reported this historic moment.
The Wright brothers offered their invention to the U.S. government,
but the government rejected2
their offer at first. The government didn’t
believe that these men invented a flying machine. Finally, President
Theodore Roosevelt investigated their claims and offered the inventors a
contract to build airplanes for the U.S. Army.
December 17, 2003, marked 100 years of flight. There was a six-day
cele bration at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the location of the first flight.
A crowd of 35,000 people gathered to see a replica3
of the first plane fly.
The cost to re-create the plane was $1.2 million. However, it rained hard
that day and the plane failed to get off the ground.
You can now see the Wright brothers’ original airplane in the Air and
Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Did You
Know?
The Wright
brothers never
married. Their
only love was
aviation.
Wilbur Wright, 1867–1912;
Orville Wright, 1871–1948
1
Aerodynamics is the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of air and its