Can you fill in the blanks Benjamin Franklin. All these verbs are in the PAST TENSE! Enjoy!!!!! Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. (be born) in Boston in 1706. He 1. ………………… (be) the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He 2. …………………(go ) to school for only one year. He 3. …………………………… (begin) to work when he was twelve. At the age of fourteen he 4. …………………………… (decide) to be a writer. He 5. …………………. (copy) the great stories of famous writers and later he 6. …………………………… (become) the best known writer in his time. When he 7. ………………….. (be) seventeen, he 8. ………………………… (leave) Boston and 9. …………………………… (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He 10. …………………… (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and 11. ……………………. (retire) from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he 12. ………………………. (spend) the next forty years working for his government. He 13. ………………………. (play) an important role in the founding of the USA. Franklin 14. ……………… (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He 15. ……………. (draw) electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He 16. ……………………… (write) one of the first text books on electricity. He 17. ……………………… (invent) a simple lightning rod and many other practical tools. He 18. ……………………… (make) a study of water and 19. ………………………. (discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even 20. ………………………… (invent) bifocal glasses when he was seventy-eight and 21. ……………………… (need) them himself. Franklin 22. ……………… (do) all these things and many more because he 23. …………….……… (believe) he 24. ……………… (can).
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