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Read the text about the life of Marie Curie.  Some of the lines are correct; some have a word, which should not be there.  Write this word in the box next to the line. If the line is correct write OK into the box. You have two examples at the beginning.

 

1	Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, in	OK
2	1867. She was one of his five children. Marie's	his
3	nickname as a child was "Manya". When her parents
4	were both school teachers, but the family together
5	was being very poor.
6	Marie was a clever child but she couldn't have
7	study in Poland so she moved to Paris where
8	she has lived with her sister. At Sorbonne University
9	she started to studying physics and mathematics.
10	At the university she should worked together with
11	another scientist, Pierre Curie. They married in 1895
12	and Marie changed her other name. The two scientists
13	discovered such a new element, radium in 1898.
14	When Pierre died in 1906 Marie started teaching at
15	the university, if where she became the first female
16	professor. After she was also the first woman to
17	win two Nobel Prizes.