PAST SIMPLE – regular/ irregular verbs Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Croatian Inventor Nikola Tesla ___________ (be) born on 10th July 1856 in Smiljan, small village in Croatia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). His father ___________ (be) a Serbian...
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PAST SIMPLE – regular/ irregular verbs Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Croatian Inventor Nikola Tesla ___________ (be) born on 10th July 1856 in Smiljan, small village in Croatia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). His father ___________ (be) a Serbian Orthodox priest and his mother ___________ (take) care of the family’s farm. Nikola ___________ (say) that he ___________ (must) to thank her for his creative abilities and near photographic memory - he ___________ (can) memorize entire books and recite them at will. Tesla ___________ (speak) eight languages: Serbian, Latin, German, Hungarian, Italian, Czech, French and English. He ___________ (use) to say ''I'm proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland''. When Tesla’s brother Daniel ___________ (die) in an accident, it ___________ (be) a shock to the 7-year-old Nikola. He then ___________ (start) to have visions, important also in his later life. Tesla ___________ (go) to the gymnasium in Carlstadt (Karlovac, Croatia). When p
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