Unit 11 Scientific achievements

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Unit 11
Scientific Achievements
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• Warming up

What great inventions do you know?
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What great inventions do you know?
Solar energy
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Do you know any famous scientists in the world?
What do you know about the contributions to the
world?
Now look at the following exercises and see how
much you know about them.
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Thomas Edison the Wright Brothers Madame
Curie
Elbert Einstein
Steven Hawking Isaac Newton
Theory of Gravity the electric lamp black holes
in Universe
the First Plane Radium the Theory
of Relativity
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Listening
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Neil Armstrong
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Alexander Graham Bell

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Ray Tomlinson
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Speaking Useful expressions

• If I got the money, I would
• My plan is to
• I hope that
• I want/wish/ hope/ intend/ plan to
• Id like to
• Im thinking of

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If I got the money, I would set up a research
lab. My plan is to develop a cure for AIDS. I
want/wish/ hope/ intend/ plan to use cloning to
cure diseases.
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I hope that we can send a manned spaceship to
Mars. Id like to work on cloning. Im thinking
of growing food in areas where there is very
little water.
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work on ?????? work at ??,??,??? ?...??? work
as ??? work out ???,???,???
He is working on a new novel. Im working at my
study. The plan worked out well.
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make itadj./n. to do/that clause ????..
I make it a rule to get up early. I have made it
clear that I object to the plan.
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manned adj. ??? n.ed---adj. aged ???
learned ???? gifted ????
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?????do you think???????. ??????
believe,guess, suppose,imagine?,??? ???????????
???????????
Who do you think telephoned today?
Whom do you think he would go with?
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Practice
1.???????? He____ _____ a newspaper. 2.???????????
????? E-mail makes___ _______ for us ___
communicate with each other.
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3.??????????(bulb)? 4.???/??????? 5.????????????
6.???????? 7.????????????
Who do you think invented the bulb?
I intend /plan to start next week.  
Id like to make a phone call to her after class.
I wish I were younger.
My plan is to work hard at English.