BIOGRAPHIES

I was born on 1st January, 1954.

How old am I now?

• 46

• 56

• 66

• 76

Gutenberg __________ the first printing machine in 1447.

• discovered

• invented

• moved

• died

Mustafa Kemal was born in 1881 in Salonica. When he was 12, he joined a military school. Later on, he graduated from the military academy in İstanbul and established a great reputation by fighting against the Allies. He started a nationalist revolution and in 1923, Turkey became a secular republic. He was elected as the first president of the Turkish Republic. He died in 1938.

Who was Ataturk?

• soldier

• architect

• scientist

• inventor

She was born in Warsaw in 1867. She

went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne University

in 1891. She met Pierre Curie, Professor in the

School of Physics there, and they got married

in the following year. They discovered two new

elements for the periodical table. She named one

of the elements polonium and the other radium.

In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for discovering these elements.

What was her achievement?

• She was born in Warsaw.

• She got married Pierre Curie.

• She moved to Paris.

• She won the Nobel Prize.

Kate: I ________ up in London. Then, when I was eighteen, I moved to New York.

• grow

• grows

• growed

• grew

Aziz Sancar ____________ from Istanbul University in 1969.

• graduated

• moved

• stayed

• died

Hamza Yerlikaya attended the Atlanta Olympics and won the gold medal.

What is the synonym of the underlined word?

• join

• live

• study

• get married

Mehmet II ___________ Constantinople in 1453.

• discovered

• conquered

• moved

• built

What is the past form (V2) of have?

• have

• has

• haved

• had

A: When __________ Einstein win the Nobel Prize?

B: In 1921.

• do

• does

• is

• did