Read the text and write the verbs in the correct Past Simple form. Irregular verbs: be, go, teach, read
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison 1. (be) born in 1847. He 2. (go) to school when he was 8. But after only three months he 3. (start) learning at home. His mother 4.(teach) him. He 5.(read) a lot of books and he started inventing things. In 1877 he 6. (invent) a phonograph. One year later he invented the light bulb. In 1882 New York 7. (be) the first city in the world with electric lights. Thomas Edison invented more than 1000 inventions. He 8. (die) at the age of 84.