Question

TASK 5. Open the brackets and use the verbs in the correct form of Past Simple.

Alexander Graham Bell 1)_______ (be) a famous inventor. He was born on 3rd March, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell 2) ______ (graduate) from Edinburgh's Royal High School in 1861 and 3) ____ (begin) his first studies in sound in 1864 at Elgin's West House Academy. In 1870, together with his family, he 4) ____ (move) to Canada. In 1871 he 5) ____ (lecture) in Boston, USA, about how to teach speech to the deaf and in 1872 he 6) _____ (open) his own school for training teachers of the deaf in Boston. He 7) ______ (become) a professor at Boston University in 1873. Bell 8) _____ (invent) the telephone in 1876. He 9) _____ (marry) Mabel Hubband a year later and in 1880 he 10) ____ (invent) the gramophone. He 11) ____ (be) granted eighteen patents for his inventions. Alexander Graham Bell 12) ____ (die) on 2nd August 1922, on Cape Breton Island, Canada.

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Ответ:

Alexander Graham Bell was a famous inventor. He was born on 3rd March, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell graduated from Edinburgh's Royal High School in 1861 and began his first studies in sound in 1864 at Elgin's West House Academy. In 1870, together with his family, he moved to Canada. In 1871 he lectured in Boston, USA, about how to teach speech to the deaf and in 1872 he opened his own school for training teachers of the deaf in Boston. He became a professor at Boston University in 1873. Bell invented the telephone in 1876. He married Mabel Hubband a year later and in 1880 he invented the gramophone. He was granted eighteen patents for his inventions. Alexander Graham Bell died on 2nd August 1922, on Cape Breton Island, Canada.