On/offline activity. Speaking practice
Work in groups
I. Now we know many interesting facts from Alfred Nobel’s life. And you can have a great opportunity to find out: how his fund works nowadays.
Find the information from the Internet Resources about:
The foundation of the Nobel Prize Fund (the date, the place, some other facts);
The facts about the first Nobel Prize Winners (the name of the winners, the nationality, the year, and the fields of their activity);
About our compatriots (Jhores Alferov, Boris Pasternak, Lev Landau, Joseph Brodsky) and other Nobel Prize Winners in physics, literature, etc. (the name, the year, fields of activity, their family, some extraordinary facts from their life);
About the Nobel Prize Winners in 2007 in different fields of sciences (the name of the winners, the nationality, and the fields of their activity) and retell this interesting information to your groupmates.
Recommended resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhores_Alferov
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/index.html
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/evans-lecture.html
http://nobelprize.org/
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2007/index.html
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2007/
http://nobelprize.org/prize_announcements/economics/eco_questions_07.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau
II. Write an interesting story about one of the Nobel Prize Winners and send the story to the teacher by e-mail.
Do revision test and also send it to the teacher.
Lesson 4
LEAD-IN
Can you guess which year these inventions were made?
1876 1886 1938 1940 1965 1971 1975 1976 1979 1995
Ballpoint pen CD colour TV dishwasher DVD e-mail
Mobile phone personal computer video recorder
How necessary are they in your life?
LEXICAL EXERCISES
Find suitable words to the following definitions:
Research, invention, inspiration, closet, bulb, to take a nap, wax, phonograph, genius, perspiration
subsidiary room in an apartment house ;
something that someone has made, designed or created, that did not exist before;
outstanding abilities, talent, talent in the certain field of activity;
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the condition of creative rise, inflow of a creative power;
the lighting or heating device of a various kind and the device;
to be in a condition of a light slumber;
solid substance that becomes liquid when it is heated. Wax is used, for example, to make candles;
the first device for mechanical record and reproduction of a sound;
the liquid allocated during physical activities, or during excitement;
the detailed study of something in order to discover new facts;
New words
Try to guess the meaning of the following definitions:
– someone who performs religious duties and ceremonies in some religions;
– a long stick with a weight at the end of it that hangs down and swings from side to side, especially in a large clock;
– the hot wet substance that is produced when water is heated;
– the part of a vehicle that produces power to make it move;
– someone who is patient, is able to wait for a long time or deal with a difficult situation without becoming angry or upset;
- a glass object with a very thin wire inside, that produces light, when it is connected to an electricity supply.
Priest, steam, pendulum, patient, bulb, engine.
Longman Exams Dictionary
SPEAKING PRACTICE
Reading
Now before reading an article, let’s remember Edison’s main idea about success, inspiration.
What did he say?
How to be a successful inventor
What do you need for an invention to be a success?
Well, good timing for a start. You can have a great idea which the public simply doesn’t want ... yet. Take the Italian priest, Giovanni Caselli, who invented the first fax machine using an enormous pendulum in the 1860s. Despite the excellent quality of the reproductions, his invention quickly died a commercial death. It was not until the 1980s that the fax became an essential piece of equipment in every office ... too late for Signor Caselli.
Money also helps. The Frenchman Denis Papin (1647 — 1712) had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before the better- remembered Scotsman James Watt was even born ... but he never had enough money to build one.
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You also need to be patient (it took scientists nearly eighty years to develop a light bulb which actually worked) ... but not too patient. In the 1870s, Elisha Gray, a professional inventor from Chicago, developed plans for a telephone. Gray saw it as no more than ‘a beautiful toy’, however. When he finally sent details of his invention to the Patent Office on February 14th 1876, it was too late; almost identical designs had arrived just two hours earlier ... and the young man who sent them, Alexander Graham Bell, will always be remembered as the inventor of the telephone.
Sarah Curringham, Peter Moor, Cutting Edge, Longman.
Reading comprehension
I. Try to explain the meaning of the following words from the text:
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