Read the article again and answer the questions. 1 In what decades were the technical inventions created? 2 Which inventions were created by Europeans? 3 What was the second personal music player called? 4 What technical innovation was used on the Space Shuttle? 5 Where did Sir Tim work in the late 1980s/early 1990s? What do they do there? 6 How does Sir Tim believe the internet should be used? Discuss with your partner. What do you use to listen to music, to call people and to surf the internet? Read the article on p. 50 again and underline all verbs in the past tense. Put the verbs from the article into the correct section of the table. Add the infinitive form of the verbs. Past (regular -ed) Infinitive Past (irregular) Infinitive ended end grew grow Complete the paragraphs with the past forms of these verbs. There are two extra words you should not use. A Moggridge (1) for GRID Systems Corporation. His laptops (2) about $9,000, but the American government (3) them and (4) them on the Space Shuttle. B Pavel (5) the Stereobelt in 1972. He (6) to some electronics companies and he (7) the directors. They (8) to the personal stereo but said it was a bad idea because it (9) headphones. They said no one (10) to listen to music with headphones. C After graduation, Tim Berners-Lee (11) as an engineer at the telecommunications company Plessey in Poole, Dorset. In 1978, he (12) D. G. Nash in Ferndown, Dorset, where he (13) typesetting software for printers. Berners-Lee worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980. While in Geneva, he (14) the first hypertext code, which he (15) would help researchers to share information. b c 2 a Grammar Past simple verbs 1 Irregular verbs, p. 178 b 3 work (2 × ) go buy use help write start cost meet want have join think listen make (2 × ) Language skills Extras Explore 4 Changes 51 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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