Unit 7 Grammar 1 Past Simple Tense

Read the text and do the tasks 1. Click on three examples of the past of 'to be'.
2. Click on the other verbs that are NOT in the present tense. What are the last two letters of these verbs?

The birth of the World Wide Web

TimBerners-Lee, the inventor of the WWW and W3C

In 1980 Tim Berners-Lee as a software engineer in Switzerland. He a programme - "Enquire" - to help organize notes and documents on his computer. This programme never published but it the basis for the future developmemt of the World Wide Web. In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee the "global hypertext project" which a reality in 1991 - the "WorldWideWeb" programme available on the Internet. In 1994 he the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The W3Consortium ensures that the Web is stable as it evolves. Tim Berners-Lee still works for the development of the Internet. Among a long list of awards, he the Scientific and Technical Research Principe de Asturias Award in Spain in 2002. Now more than 600 million people all over the world use the Internet and the World Wide Web.