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Past Simple of the verb to be

Writer

Painter

Explorer

Astronaut

Politician

Scientist

Inventor

Sculptor

Architect

King and queen

Composer

scientist

• Albert Einstein was a German ...
• Christopher Columbus was an Italian …
• Mozart was an Austrian …
• Leo Tolstoy was a Russian …
• Margaret Thatcher was a …
• The Bronte sisters were English …
• Pierre and Marie Currie were ...

explorer

composer

writer

politician

writers

scientists

WAS/WERE

I WAS

HE WAS

SHE WAS IT WAS

WE WERE

YOU WERE

THEY WERE

Use the right variant

was

• Walt Disney … a director/actor
• Leonardo da Vinci … an astronaut/ artist
• Ivan the Terrible/Peter the Great … Polish/Russian tsars
• Queen Nefertiti and king Amenhotep … from Rome/

Egypt

5. Pablo Picasso … Spanish musician/artist

6. Charlie Chaplin … an American actor/singer

7. Modest Musorgsky and Pyotr Tchaikovsky … architects/

composers

was

were

were

was

was

were

Test “History makers”

J.K. Rowling was … of the books about Harry Potter

a) a director

b) a writer

c) a painter

Luciano Pavarotti was a famous Italian …

a) architect

b) singer

c) explorer

Johann Strauss was a famous Austrian …

a) composer

b) sculptor

c) painter

Vincent van Gogh was well-known Dutch post-impressionist …

a) actor

b) painter

c) composer

Shakespeare was … of the well-known p lays such as “Romeo and Juliet”, “Macbeth” and many others

c) writer

a) inventor

b) director

Mikhail Lomonosov was well-known …

a) inventor

b) explorer

c) scientist

Charles Darwin was an English …, best known for his contributions

t o the science of evolution

a) inventor

b) scientist

c) explorer

Thomas Edison was an American … of light bulb

a) scientist

b) inventor

c) explorer

Yuri Gagarin was the first … in the world.

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman …

b) explorer

c) inventor

a) astronaut

Michelangelo was a … David is one of his famous works

a) painter

b) sculptor

c) director

Leonid Gaidai was a … who shot “The Diamond Arm”,

“ Ivan Vasilievich changes his profession”

b) painter

c) sculptor

a) director

Margaret Thatcher was a famous …, she was the first woman

prime-minister in Great Britain.

a) architect

b) politician

c) explorer

James Cook was an …, who in 1770, charted New Zealand

and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia

a) explorer

b) scientist

c) inventor

Elizabeth 1 was … of England

and Ireland from 1558 till 1603

a) king

b) queen

c) politician