Great Inventions (presentation)

GREAT INVENTIONS

Mami E.D.

School 58

Donetsk

LEAD-IN a) Now look at the pictures of the inventions of recent years, match them with their names.

A

B

E

F

C

D

G

H

1. a digital camera

2. a portable CD player

5. a mountain bike

3. a smart phone

6. a computer

7. roller skates

4. a microwave oven

8. a smart TV

b) Answer the questions.

• Which inventions are fun?
• Which ones are fashionable?
• Do all of them appeal only to young people?
• Which of them is the best invention in recent years? Why?

SPEAKING Group these pictures and put them into these two circles to show the connection among these objects.

What words can characterise the processes among them?

LISTENING Listen and fill in the missing information, then talk about these inventors and their inventions.

INVENTOR(S)

INVENTION

DATE

PLACE

Galileo

Alexander

telescope

3) …………

Thomas

Graham

1) ………

NOTES

light bulb

Edison

- his largest telescope was 120cm long

Bell

Italy

4)…………

Karl

- telephones first used in US cities

automobile

6)…………

USA

- he used it to study the 2) ….... and Mars

The

Benz

- Edison also invented the

USA

8)…………

- by 1887, more than 5)……… phones in USA

aeroplane

Wright

Germany

- first car had only 9)…………

7)………………...

brothers

1903

wheels, a steel frame and went 10)……….. kph

USA

- first plane flew 11)…………. feet in 12)…………. seconds

- by 1888 Benz had 50 workers building the 3-wheeled cars

- Orville was the first person to fly an aeroplane

SPEAKING Choose the correct answer to the questions about some inventors and their inventions.

• Who discovered the three laws of motion in the 17 th century?

a) Copernicus b) Newton c) Galileo

• Who developed the periodic table of elements in chemistry?

a) Mendel b) Mendeleyev c) Mendelssohn

• Who discovered the practical uses of elements in chemistry?

a) Sony b) Marconi c) Hertz

• Who discovered that electricity existed as a current?

a) Ampere b) Volta C) Faraday

• Who proposed the existence of the atom?

a) Rutherford b) Einstein c) Democritus

READING Now read the text and fill in the correct form of the words derived from the words in brackets.

Charles Babbage was an important English 1)_____________( invent ) who is 2)_________( fame ) for designing the first computer.

In 1823 the 3)_____________( govern ) gave Babbage a large amount of money to design a mechanical 4)_______________( calculate ) and he spent most of his life working on the machine. During the 1830s he developed plans for another machine which would later become the first modern computer. The machine had a huge memory to store complicated numbers.

5)______________( fortunate ), the designs for his computer were lost until 1937, when 6)_____________( luck ), they were found. In 1991, British scientists 7)_______( final ) built a surprisingly accurate computer using Babbage`s designs and called it Difference Engine No.2

True or False

• Charles Babbage wasn`t a well-known English inventor.
• Babbage worked on the mechanical machine for 7 years.
• In 1830 the first computer was designed.
• Nobody saw the designs for the computer before 1937.
• Babbage`s planes were used for creating an accurate computer.

F

F

T

T

T

SPEAKING a) Match the exchanges, then read the dialogue aloud.

c

1 ___ A: I really couldn`t live without my computer.

2 __ A: Well, I use it every day for school and for playing games.

3 __ A: Oh, that`s not true. In fact, I`ve made lots of new friends on

the Internet .

4 ___ A: I think that portable CD players are a waste of money.

a B: In my opinion, computers make people unsociable.

b B: Oh, I don`t agree. I use mine all the time.

c B: Really? Why do you say that?

d B: Well, I don`t like computers much, but I`d be lost

without my portable CD player .

a

d

b

b) Now, in pairs, use the prompts below to act out similar dialogues.  

• mobile phone/ making calls and sending messages/ I talk to my friends more than ever/ minidisc player

• television/ watching the news and relaxing/ I often watch TV with my friends/ Gameboy

WRITING Using the information you have known at our lesson write a cinquain. You should end your cinquain with the words:” Great invention ”    

____________

___________ __________

_________ ___________ _________

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GREAT INVENTION

For writing your cinquain you can use the following words

successful find

invent search

smart curious

detective examine

explorer benefit

clever discover

essential experiment

investigate useful contribute

Great

invention

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