Leonardo da Vinci wrote from right to left - you needed a mirror to read his

handwriting.
He was a genius - he could write one sentence with his right hand and a different
sentence with his left hand.
He invented scissors.
He drew architect's plans but never built a building.
He lost most of the paintings and drawings he did in Milan.
He had many talents. He made models and in his notebooks there were plans for a
tank, a helicopter and a submarine.
His scientific observations were a hundred years before his time. 

1. Encontre no texto as formas verbais no passado simples dos verbos irregulares:

write, make, have, build, lose, do, draw.

2. Quais são as duas formas do verbo to be no passado simples? Complete.

Para I, he, she e it é __________.

Para you, we e they é _________.

3. Complete o texto com o passado simples dos verbos entre parênteses.

Marie Curie _______ (be) a physicist and a chemist. She _________ (begin) her

studies in Poland but in 1891 she _______ (leave) for France. She
________ (study) there and later _________ (work) as a scientist at the Sorbonne in
Paris. She _________ (meet) and ________ (marry) a French scientist, Pierre Curie.
They ________ (have) two children, Irene and Ewa. Maria and Pierre
_________ (discover) two radioactive elements, radium and polonium. Pierre
______ (die) in 1906 in an accident in Paris. Maria _______ (get) two Nobel Prizes, in
1903 and in 1911. She _____ (die) in 1934.