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Inventions and Inventors

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Do inventions improve our lives?

Do you know how? Look at the mind-map.

Can you give adjectives describing our lives with inventions?

warmer

Better

easier

longer

More comfortable

More interesting

faster

Lives with

inventions inventions

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1. A vacuum cleaner

1. To cook meals

2. A washing machine

2. To press clothes

3. A dishwasher

3. To clean the carpets

4. A microwave oven

4. To do the cooking

5. An iron

5. To wash clothes

6. A cooker

6. To find information

7. A computer

7. To wash up

8. A mobile phone

8. To watch films and news

9. A television

9. To communicate with people

Make up sentences using the structure!

  • A vacuum cleaner is used to clean the

carpets

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  • Answer the questions
  • What modern inventions do you have at home?
  • What is the most useful thing for your mother?
  • Which device can’t you do without?
  • What thing can’t your father live without?
  • What gadget do you use every day?
  • What thing can you easily do without?
  • What is the most useless thing in your household?
  • What is your favourite unit and why?

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Match the inventions with the inventors.

1. The electric light bulb

1. Alexander Graham Bell 1875

2. The Law of gravitation

2. Samuel Morse 1838

3. The telephone

3. Thomas Edison 1879

4. The theory of evolution

4. Charles Darwin 1859

5. The telegraph

5. Isaak Newton1687

6. The steam engine

6. Albert Einstein 1905

7. The theory of relativity

7. Marie Curie 1911

8. Radium

8. James Watt

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BOOK

  • EX. 2 p.124 read
  • Ex. 3b p.125

  • New words. Work in vocabulary
  • Book, page 126 - 127

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Homework�

  • Ex. 1a p.128-129 read
  • Test
  • Підготувати презентацію для захисту

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1. Translate into English the word винахід

  • an invention
  •  an observation
  • to invent
  •  an exploration

2. Translate into Ukrainian the word scientist

  •  біолог
  •  науковець
  •  мовознавець
  •  дослідник

3. What did brothers Wright invent?

  • plane
  • mobile phone
  •  computer

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4. The British secret service ____ computer for breaking German secret radio message.

  • bought 
  • used 
  • madе
  • waited

5. Science about the earth, including the origin and history of rocks 

  • biology
  • chemistry
  • geology
  • botany

6. Science about plants and their structure

  • biology
  • physics
  • botany 
  • chemistry

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7. The another word for a doctor 

  •  physician
  • pharmacist
  • physicist
  • chemist

8. ... is the study of the way in which language works. 

  • Linguistics
  •  Psychology
  • Meteorology
  • Astronomy

9. The science of the stars and planets

  • biology 
  • astronomу 
  • physics
  • botany

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10. An inventor is ...

  • something that has never been made before, or the process of creating something that has never been made before 
  • someone who designs or creates something that did not exist before
  • the study and knowledge of the practical, especially industrial, use of scientific discoveries

11. Translate into English the word причина

  • reason
  • Inquiry 
  • to exist 
  • impossible

12. Serhii Korolyov was successful in the field of....

  •  motor cars 
  • rocket engineering
  • steam engines

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13. When did Serhiy Korolyov finished a flying school? 

  • 1927 
  • 1930
  • 1957 
  • 1933

14. Who affected Serhiy Korolyov`s life? 

  • Tsiolkovsky 
  • Mendeleyev 
  • Newton
  • Pavlow

15. Serhiy Korolyov invented the spaceships.

  • agree 
  • disagree

16. Serhiy Korolyov taught many scientists and engineers.

  • agree 
  • disagree

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17. Where was Serhiy Korolyov born? 

  • Zhytomyr 
  • Odesa 
  • Uzhgorod 
  • Lviv

18. Serhiy Korolyov was a founder of modern space-rocket engineering. 

  • True
  • False

19. In 1957 Serhiy Korolyov launched of the first artificial Earth satellite. 

  • True 
  • False

20. Serhiy Korolyov is well known all over the world as designer of aircrafts, rockets, artificial satellites and other types of space technic. 

  • agree
  • disagree