Leonardo da Vinci wrote from right to left - you needed a mirror to read his handwriting.
He was a genius - he could write one sentence with his right hand and a different sentence with his left hand.
He invented scissors.
He drew architect's plans but never built a building.
He lost most of the paintings and drawings he did in Milan.
He had many talents. He made models and in his notebooks there were plans for a tank, a helicopter and a
submarine.
His scientific observations were a hundred years before his time.
1. Encontre no texto as formas verbais no passado simples dos verbos irregulares: write, make, have, build,
lose, do, draw.
2. Quais são as duas formas do verbo to be no passado simples? Complete.
Para I, he, she e it é __________.
Para you, we e they é _________.
3. Complete o texto com o passado simples dos verbos entre parênteses.
Marie Curie _______ (be) a physicist and a chemist. She _________ (begin) her studies in Poland but in 1891
she _______ (leave) for France. She ________ (study) there and later _________ (work) as a scientist at the
Sorbonne in Paris. She _________ (meet) and ________ (marry) a French scientist, Pierre Curie. They
________ (have) two children, Irene and Ewa. Maria and Pierre _________ (discover) two radioactive
elements, radium and polonium. Pierre ______ (die) in 1906 in an accident in paris . maria ________(get) two nobel prizes in 1911.she ________(die) in 1934
