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One day he saw a picture of weather balloons in the newspapers and got an idea. He went to the shop, bought 45 weather balloons and several tanks of helium. He took a garden chair, tied the balloons to it and filled the balloons with helium. He made sandwiches and took an airgun because he had planned to land the chair by shooting the balloons one by one. But things went terribly wrong. When his friends cut the string which had tied his chair to the jeep, his chair rised much higher than he had originally planned. He reached the height of almost 3 miles. He was afraid to shoot the balloons, so he went on drifting towards the corridor of Long Beach airport. One of the pilots saw him and reported to the traffic control that there was a man floating in a garden chair with an airgun in his hand above the airport. The traffic controller don't believe it at first but when he heard the same message from another pilot he decided to take action.

In the meantime, Lawrence's balloons got caught in a power line which caused a blackout in a Long Beach neighbourhood.

He climbed down safely, and as soon as he hit the ground he was arrested. When asked by a reporter why he had done it, he said, "A man can't just sit around!"

4 Fill in the gaps with the missing verbs in the past tense.

1 The brothers Montgolfier flew in a hot-air balloon.

2 People first ate pizza in a pizza shop in 1830.

3 People first wore glasses in 1448.

4 The Wright brothers flipped a coin to decide who would fly first.

5 In the 19th century people travelled to America by steamship.

6 The first mobile phone weighted a kilo.

6 Circle the correct form.

1 People flew / didn't fly before 1903.

2 Sir Thomas Flower invented / didn't invent the computer after 1936.

3 People ate / didn't eat pizza a thousand years ago.

4 People read / didn't read books two hundred years ago.

5 People wore / didn't wear glasses before 1300.

6 People watched / didn't watch movies after 1880.

7 Bell invented / didn't invent the telephone in 1876.

8 Edison made/ didn't make the electric light bulb in 1850.

7 Write what life was like without the following.

1 Before electricity, people used candles, kerosene lamps and burned the fires.

2 When people didn't have television, they read books and newspapers, listened to the radio.

3 Before they had computers, people went to the libraries, read books and spent more time together.

4 When people didn't have mobile phones, they wrote letters and telegrams to each other.

9 Use the verbs from the box and match each invention with their inventors. Wrote the sentences as in the example.

The first flight was made by the Wright. America was discovered by Columbus.

The first popular car was designed by Karl Benz.

Lego building bricks were created by the Christiansen family in Denmark.

The first walkman and portable disc player was invented by the Japanese company Sony.

10a) Read the questions and circle the correct answer.

1 Who was the first flight in an aeroplane made by?

b) Orville Wright c) in 1948 in Britain a) near Alexandria in Egypt

2 When and where was the first computer developed?

3 Where was the world's first lighthouse built?