Unit 6  Reading

Name: Class:

1   Read and circle the correct words.

George Eastman was born in 1854 in the USA. His family lived in New York. When George
was a child, he was very clever and was good at his school work. George’s family was very
poor and when he was nine he wanted to get a job to help them. But his parents didn’t
want him to work. They wanted him to study. George studied hard and then, when he
was a young man, he worked in a bank. George loved photography but at the time
cameras were very big and complicated. Only professional photographers used them. In
1880, George stopped working at the bank and worked on an invention for a new,
pocket-size camera. In 1888, he invented the Kodak camera and many more people
started to take photos. These days, most people don’t use the old Kodak manual cameras
very often because they prefer digital cameras.

1  George Eastman was English / American.

2  George was good / bad at his studies.
3  George’s family didn’t have much / had a lot of money.
4  George worked as a photographer / in a bank when he was young.
5  Everybody / Not everybody used the first big cameras.
6  George worked / didn’t work at the bank after 1880.
7  George’s camera was smaller / bigger than traditional cameras.
8  Today most people use Kodak / digital cameras.

2   Read and write the names.

Henry Ford invented the motor car. 1
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Calatrava designed a bridge in Bilbao.

Dora worked in an office when she was young.
Mr Green visited a museum in town.
Prehistoric men lived in caves.

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