Complete using was / were:

John and Bob Kennedy …………………….. important American presidents.

Einstein ………………. a great mathematician.

Pablo Picasso ……………………… a famous painter.

Portinari …………………… a Brazilian painter.

The Beatles ………………………. English pop singers.

Elvis Presley ……………………. the king of rock.

Bill Gates ………………. a student at Harvard University.

The Romans …………………… brave soldiers.

Beethoven …………………….. a German composer.

Brazil …………………….. the last country in the world to abolish slavery (1888).

Aristotle ……………………. a Greek philosopher.

The Vikings …………………….. a Scandinavian people.

Pearl Harbor ……………………. an American naval base.

Johan Sebastian Bach ……………………….. one of the greatest composer of all time.

Joan of Arc ……………………. a French military heroine burned at the stake.

Charles Dickens ……………………….. the English author of Oliver Twist.

Frédéric Chopin ………………………. the great composer of the romantic era.

Alaska, now an American state, …………………………….. discovered by two Russian explorers.

George Washington ……………………. the first President of the United States.

Dinosaurs ……………………. giant prehistoric animals.

The first electronic computer …………………. probably the Eniac, built for the American Army .

Captain James Cook ……………………. the discoverer of Autralia.

Thomas Edison and Alexander Gran Bell  ………………….. important inventors.

Willian Shakespeare …………………… the most important playwright of Universal literature.

Donatello and Michelangelo …………………… important Italian sculptors.

Villas-Boas Brothers ………………………. brave explorers in Amazon forest.

Cleopatra ……………………………. the beautiful queen of Egypt.

The Monkeys …………………………………. a famous rock group in the 60’s.

The hippies ……………………………. people who want peace and love.

And now translate these sentences using dictionaries or Google translator.