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Joy English · Level B2 · Sciencejoy-english.com

Wilbur and Orville Wright: The First Airplane

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Follow a short biography in the past tense.

Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.

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Words to know

mechanical
Using machines or moving parts.
experiment
To try something to see what happens.
hero
A person admired for doing something great.

Answer key

  1. His brother Orville was born four years later in Dayton, Ohio.“Later” after a time period means after that time. Numbers can be written as words or digits.
  2. As they grew up, the Wright brothers experimented with mechanical things.“As they grew up” means while they were becoming adults.
  3. With these tests, they learned how to solve many problems.“How to solve” is a question word followed by an infinitive.
  4. Four other men watched the Wright brothers' first flights.Note the apostrophe after “brothers’”: the flights belonged to both brothers.
  5. Wilbur and Orville suddenly became world heroes.“Suddenly” means very quickly. “Became” is the past of “become”.

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