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Thomas Edison: Inventor and Busy Team Leader
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Hear superlatives and reported speech in a biography.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- invention
- Something new that someone has made.
- phonograph
- An early machine that played recorded sound.
- motion picture
- A film or movie.
Answer key
- His mother taught him reading, writing, and mathematics.A list of three subjects: reading, writing and mathematics.
- He learned from books, and he experimented.Two short clauses are joined with “and”.
- He answered, the phonograph was really the most interesting.“The most interesting” is a superlative.
- He said that it was the most difficult and the most important.“He said that” reports his words. Two superlatives are joined with “and”.
- He also invented the modern motion picture film.“Also” adds another invention.