telegraph

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Unit 7 Lesson 26
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printer-----print
telegraph
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Who invented them?
Printing
Cai Lun
Plane
Bi Sheng
Telephone
Bell
Paper making
Wright brothers
inventions
inventors
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Thomas Alva
Edison

1847-1931 a great American inventor During his
lifetime, he had many inventions

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Why was Edison able to make so many inventions?
try out never give up
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1.How long was he in school? 2.Why didnt his
teacher want to teach him any more? 3.How did he
learn after he left school? 4.What did he do at
the age of 12?


pupil at the age of.
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1.What did Edison do when he saw that? rush
out and carry..to safety 2.How did the boys
father thank him?
..send messages by telegraph
frightened
tracks
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1.How did he open up his lab? With the
money 2. Where did he open up his own lab?
In New Jersey 3.How many inventions did he have
during his
lifetime ?
1093
open up his own lab
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Read with the tape
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• As a pupil ,he got most of the knowledge from __.
• 2.From the second story (He wrote, printed, sold
  newspapers)we know that he was a boy who__.
• 3.The boys father taught Edison how to send
  messages by telegraph because_____.
• 4. A new life in Paragraph 4 refers to_____
• 5.The phrase think more of.. in the last
  paragraph means ____.
• 6.Find sentences in the text that show he was a
  person who never gave up.

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1.Most of the questions had nothing to do with
his lessons. have nothing to do with have
something to do with 2. At the age of 12, he
started writing his newspaper. at the age
of. 3. The boy's father was so thankful that he
taught Edison how to send messages by
telegraph. The boy was too frightened to
move. so..that
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1. As a pupil at school and at home__ have
nothing to do ,not any more take.. home, find a
good pupil learn fast, become interested in
build a chemistry lab 2.At the age of 12
________. writeown newspaper, print and sell
copies, It was.sold 3.One day in August,1862
______. see playing ,too frightened to. rush
out, carry to safety , so that send messages
by, start a new life 4.When he was 22
_________. to be an inventor, from earlier
invention, open up, lifetime
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What kind of person
do you think Edison was?
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What kind of spirit can you learn from Edison?
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Remember
Nothing is difficult if you put your heart into
it. Dont give up halfway
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Language in use 1.Thomas Edison was a great ____.
And he had over one thousand ____. 2.The fireman
carried the people to the ____ when the house was
on fire. 3.When seeing a tiger, the boy was too
___ to say. 4.At the _ of eight , she was a __in
a primary school and became very ___in drawing.
5.This is a printer. Its used for____. 6.This is
a good idea, but we must ____ it ____. 7.He was
very __because the solider saved her son.
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What happened?
Year / number







3 months
Young Tom was in school for only 3 months.
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He built a chemistry lab for himself.
He started writing his own newspaper. He printed
it and sold copies on the train.
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He saved a boy playing on the railway tracks.
In Aug. 1862
He became good at sending message
by Telegraph,and later left home to work in
different cities.
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He moved to new York to be an inventor.
1093
During his lifetime,he had 1093 inventions.