Read the look out! box. Then complete the sentences. Use the past simple form of the verbs below.
begin build come fall make take think
1 Alexander Bell the first telephone call in 1876.
2 In the fourteenth century, many people
that the
Earth was flat.
3 Isaac Newton discovered gravity when an apple
from a tree onto his head.
4 In 1926, John Logie Baird the first television.
5 Marie Curie worked in Paris, but she from Poland.
6 Charles Darwin writing on the Origin of Species in
1859.
7 Apollo 11
about 76 hours to travel from Earth to
the Moon.