READING PRACTICE
NAME: ___Alejandro Gonzalez Osorio__________________________________ GROUP: _____3s CV________ DATE:
______________
Read the following textbook article. Pay special attention to past-tense verbs. Mark the irregular
verbs in one color and regular verbs in another color.
Robert Goddard was born in 1882. When he was a child, he became interested in
firecrackers and thought about the possibility of space travel.
He later became a physics professor at a university. In his free
time, he built rockets and took them to a field, but they didn’t
fly. When he went back to his university after his failed
attempts, the other professors laughed at him. In 1920,
Goddard wrote an article about rocket travel. He believed that
one day it would be possible to go to the moon. When The New
York Times saw his article, a reporter wrote that Goddard had
less Goddard wanted to prove that The New York Times was
wrong. In 1926, he built a ten-foot rocket, put it into an open
car, and drove to his aunt’s nearby farm. He put the rocket in a
field and lit the fuse. Suddenly the rocket went into the sky. It
traveled at 60 miles per hour (mph) to an altitude of 41 feet.
Then it fell into the field. The flight lasted 2½ seconds, but
Goddard was happy
about his achievement. Over the years, his rockets grew to
18 feet and flew to 9,000 feet in the air. No one made fun
of him after he was successful.
When Goddard died in 1945, his work did not stop.
Scientists continued to build bigger and better rockets. In
1969, when the American rocket Apollo 11 took the first
men to the moon, The New York Times wrote: “The Times
regrets6 the error.”
Make the list of regular and irregular verbs found:
REGULAR VERBS
IRREGULAR VERBS
Interesed
Failed
Laughed
Believed
Wanted
Traveled
Lasted
Wrote
Born
Became
Thought
Built
Went
Had
Drove
Fell
