Pedro Paulet: a Peruvian genius

"Pedro Paulet: un genio peruano"
Spanish B1 writing exercise

Discover who Pedro Paulet was.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to be passionate about", "astronautics", "humble", "especially", "to become obsessed", "scholarship", "rocket" and "precursor".

Written by qualified Spanish expert Silvia Piriz BA
Last updated: 2023-03-23

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into Spanish

  • I’ll show you where you make mistakes
  • I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
  • Change my choices if you want
Start the exercise
How the test works
You’ll practise: El Pretérito Indefinido, Pronombre relativo, Verbos regulares -ar (presente)

Here's a preview of the text for the writing challenge, when you're ready click the start button above:

Seriously, I'm passionate about Pedro Paulet, a Peruvian considered the father of astronautics. He was born in Arequipa at the end of the 19th century, to a humble family. At the school where he studied, he started reading several Jules Verne novels that caught his attention, especially the book "From the Earth to the Moon". This book changed his life and he became obsessed with making that trip a reality. In 1895 he traveled on a scholarship to Paris in order to study chemical engineering and he designed a rocket engine powered by liquid fuel, which would be the precursor to today's rockets.

Clever stuff happening!