Thomas Edison (Listening Comprehension)

What was it that Thomas Edison the first person to make?

• telegraph machine

• the lightbulb

• the telephone

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When Edison was a child, he

• delivered newspaper

• invented the telegraph

• sold electricity

• grew vegetables

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Thomas Edison was

• an inventor

• an actor

• from California

• the person who invented the VCR

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Thomas Edison did all of the following EXCEPT

• grow vegetables

• invent telegraphs

• make lightbulbs

• run a newspaper

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Write the correct sentence of the event that happened first in Thomas Edison's life:

(a) He ran a newspaper when he was fifteen years old.

(b) When he was very young, he grew vegetables and sold them

(c) Thomas Edison made many important things.

(d) He also worked at a telegraph office.

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What does a telegraph machine do?

• Telegraph machines send messages that are written in code

• Telegraph machines allows you to speak person to person

• Telegraph machines transmit sound using light

• Telegraph machine was another way to send a letter

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