Summarize Written Text · Part 1: Speaking & Writing

Wright Brothers Version 1

4 students marked "I sat this"Added 3 Jun 2020Question #060037

Summarise the text in one sentence.

Orville and Wilbur Wright were brothers living in Dayton, Ohio. The two had started making bicycles during the 1890s and had a successful small business selling their Wright Specials for $18 each ($475 in today’s green). This experience with building light, strong machines would prove valuable in the coming years after the brothers’ interest turned to flight.

Others in the United States were also developing aircraft at the time the Wright brothers started turning their curiosity skyward. Samuel Langley had flown an unmanned steam-powered aircraft in 1896. Octave Chanute and others were flying gliders near Chicago late in the decade as well. But it wasn’t until the Wright brothers started working on the matter that the “flying problem” would finally be solved.

Beginning in 1899, the brothers designed and built a series of gliders to test their various ideas on a flying machine. They constructed a wind tunnel that allowed them to test designs without having to build a full-size model. They even built their own gasoline-powered motor for their aircraft.

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Summarize Written Text format (Pearson)

PromptText up to 300 words
Time to answer10 minutes
Skills assessedReading, Writing
Scored onContent; Form; Grammar; Vocabulary

How it is scored

  • Write one sentence of 5–75 words; fewer than 5 or more than 75 words scores zero.
  • A response that misses the topic scores zero on every trait.

Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 1: Speaking & Writing, checked 9 October 2026.