GRAMMAR

1 Choose the correct answer.

1 Pizza was first made in Naples / We had already made the pizza is an example of the past simple passive.

2 The past simple passive shows that who did the action / the action is the important information.

3 We make the past simple passive with was/ were + past participle / had + past participle.

4 In The radio was perhaps invented by Marconi, the agent is the radio / Marconi.

5 In a passive sentence we can / can't leave out the agent.

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VOCABULARY

2 Match the inventions with the definitions.

1 It stops us falling hard on the ground.

2 It can do many things for us.

3 Thieves don't usually like these.

4 It gives you air underwater.

5 You can use it to talk, and you can sometimes take pictures with one.

6 You need two strong legs to make this move.

7 We usually write it: www

8 When it crashes, it can cause serious problems.

9 This has saved millions of lives.

10 This helps us to see at night.

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FUNCTION

3 Read the text. Complete 1-10 with A, B or C.

1 A was built B was designed C were invented

2 A was built B were built C built

3 A invented B was invented C discovered

4 A made B make C making

5 A were B has C was

6 A powered B was powered C was powerful

7 A invented B designed C discovered

8 A has discovered B is discovered C was discovered

9 A was designed B designed C was designing

10 A was created B was not created C were created

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Total : _____ / 25 points

Lesson test Inspiration 3 unit 6, lesson 3

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B parachute

A light bulb

C penicillin

D computer

F mobile phone

E alarm

G aqualung

H bicycle

I world wide web

J robot

Your top ten inventions

Lightbulbs 1 ___ by Thomas Edison in 1879.

The first computer game console 2 ___ in 1976.

When the radio 3 ___ in the 1890s, everyone was amazed at it.

In 1875, the first telephone was 4 ___ by Alexander Graham Bell.

In 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle 5 ___ invented by the French mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, but it was steam-powered.

In 1885, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile. This 6 ___ by an internal-combustion engine.

Penicillin was 7 ___ by Alexander Fleming in 1928.

The cooking power of the microwave 8 ___ by accident by Dr Percy Spencer in 1946. It melted a chocolate bar in his pocket.

The first I-pod 9 ___ in 2001. First it played songs, then showed photos, then gave podcasts. Now it plays video too.

Like many inventions, the Internet 10 ___ by just one person but by several people over a number of years.

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