Complete the Stories with the Past Simple form of the verbs in brackets:

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison (1) _________ (be) born in 1847 in Ohio in the United States. He (2) ____ (start) school at the age of eight but he (3) _________ (hate) it because on his first day the teacher (4) _________ (call) him stupid. After that, he (5) _________ (stay) at home a Lot of the time and (6) _________ (have) Lessons from his mother. He also (7)_________(read) a Lot of science books at home. He (8) _________ (go) back to school sometimes but he never (9) _________ (like) it very much. He (10) _________ (leave) school forever at the age of twelve and (11) _________ (get) a job with a newsagent. He (12) ________ (begin) inventing things at the age of nineteen. In 1877 he (13) ________ (invent) the phonograph, a sort of very early CD player! Two years later, he (14) ________ (make) the world's first electric Light bulb and New York (15) _________ (become) the first city to have electric lights.

Ada Lovelace

Ada Byron _______ (be born) in London on 10 December, 1815. She _______ (be) the daughter of the famous British poet, Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Five weeks later, her parents _______ (separate). Her mother _______ (not want) Ada to be a poet like her father, so she _______ (teach) her Maths and Science. Ada was a Maths genius but she also had her father's imagination.

In 1828, when she was only thirteen, Ada _______ (design) a flying machine. Then, when she was eighteen, Ada _______ (meet) the inventor, Charles Babbage. She _______ (help) him with his work and he had a big influence on her life.

Ada _______ (marry) Lord Lovelace in 1835 and they _______ (have) three children. After that, she _______ (work) with Babbage on his new calculating machine. In 1843, she _______ (write) an article about it with a plan for calculating numbers. This plan was the first computer program.

Ada _______ (have) an important influence on computer history because she _______ (predict) the modern computer. In 1980, when American scientists _______ (invent) a new computer language, they called it ADA. Ada _______ (die) on 27 November, 1852, at the age of 36.

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