Разработка урока по английскому языку на тему Изобретения и изобретатели (8 класс)

Group 1. (Reds)

I. Text A. Read the text. Put the verbs in brackets into their Past Simple. Guess, who is the text about?

Most people know that he (create)1____________ the first working light bulb, but they don't know anything else about him. He (invent)2___________ over 1000 different things. Among his inventions are: the phonograph (record player), the movie camera and the movie projector. He (make)3_____________ his electric light bulb in 1879, but there was still much work to do. No one (know)4___________ how to use electricity outside of laboratory . He and his workers created a safe electric system. First they (build)5__________ a factory. Then they( have)6___________ to build the dynamos to make the electricity. Next they had to build electric lines. To show people that he (be)7___________ serious, he (begin)8___________ his project in New York City. By 1887, most part of New York City was electrified.

He (live)9_________ until 1931. He (continue)10_____________ to invent all his life. He was a true genius.

II. Match the inventors and their inventions.

1.Alexander Bell

a.Automobile

b.Electric light bulb

c.Telephone

d.Vacuum cleaner

e.Television

f.Penicillin

g. Airplane

2.Alexander Fleming

3.Karl Benz

4.Wright brothers

5.Edison

6.James Spangler

7.John Baird

III. Watch the video and write down the missing information:

1. … was invented in 1926.

2. The first automobile was invented instead of the use of ... .

3. … was first built in 1903 by Wilbur and Orville Wright brothers..

4. Nuclear technology was first discovered in … as shown in the video.

5. Refrigerator is used ….

6. An invention #2 is …

7. The thing considered as #1 invention shown in the video is not the radio or television, but …

IV. Do you agree with this quote? Why/Why not?

"Invention is an extraordinary thing made by extraordinary people."

Group 2. (Yellows)

I. Text B. Read the text. Put the verbs in brackets into their Past Simple. Guess, who is the text about?

He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847. His father (be)1_________ a world-famous inventor of "Visible Speech", which (help)2__________ deaf people to pronounce words they could not hear. Between 1868 and 1870 he (work)3____________ with his father and (study)4____________ speech and (teach)5_____________ deaf children in Edinburgh. In 1866 he (start)6___________ thinking about sending tones by telegraph, and it was then that there (come)7___________ to his mind the idea of the "harmonic telegraph", which would send musical tones electrically from one place to another. He (become)8______________ interested in the mechanical production of a sound. In this way, sound (can)9__________ be carried across wires at the speed of light. In 1876 he was able to develop the telephone, which enables people to talk to each other over long distances. In 1915 the first transcontinental telephone was opened. He (die)10__________ on August 2, 1922.

II. Match the words and definitions:

1. a TV set a. a system for sending or receiving speech over long distance

2. a car b. to perform everyday cleaning tasks

3. a computer c. to move fast and quick around the world

4. a plane d. to write programs, play games, find and use information

5. a vacuum cleaner e. to keep food fresh for a long time

6. a fridge f. to have fun and to entertain, to watch films

7. a mobile telephone g. to move wherever you want by yourself

III. Answer the Questions:

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Group 2 : Answer the Questions:

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1. The first television was invented in...

a. 1889

b. 1928

c. 1989

2. The first telephone was invented by ...

1. Alexander Morgan

2. Alexander Cochran

3. Alexander Bell

3. The first automobile was invented instead of the use of ...

1. a horse carriage

2. a motorcycle

3. a train

4. The airplane was invented in 1903 by … .

a. Sergei Korolyov

b. Alexander Bell

c. Wilbur and Orville Wright brothers.

5. An invention #2 is …

1. the television

2. the computer

3. medication

6. The internet is on … according to the video.

1. the 3^rd place

2. the 2^nd place

3. the 1^st place

7. A thing considered as #1 invention shown in the video is not the radio or television, but …

a. the refrigerator

b. the computer

c. the automobile

IV. Do you agree with this quote? Why/Why not?

"Need is the mother of invention."

Group 3 . (Blues)

I. Rewrite these sentences in the Passive Voice.

1. Joseph France invented photography.

2. They opened the world`s first cinema in France.

3. They built the first airplane in the 20^th century.

4. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

5. They produced the first ballpoint pen in the 20^th century.

6. They invented television in Scotland.

7. Jim Kirst invented the Scotch tape in 1923 in the USA .

8. By 1895 the Lumiere brothers had patented the cinematography.

II. Watch the presentation and answer the questions.

1. Who was telephone invented by?

a. James Spangler

b. Alexander Bell

c. The Lumiere brothers

d. Jim Kirst

e. Joseph France

2. Who was the first vacuum cleaner built by?

1. Alexander Fleming

2. Jim Kirst

3. James Spangler

4. Joseph France

5. The Lumiere brothers

3. Who was the world`s first car assembly line created by?

a. Wright

b. Henry Ford

c. Karl Benz

d. Alexander Graham Bell

e. Thomas Alva Edison

4. Where was photography invented?

1. in the USA

2. in France

3. in Japan

4. in Britain

5. in Germany

5. Who was Sony Walkman discovered by?

1. John Logie Baird

2. Ian Wilmat

3. Alexander Fleming

4. Thomas Alva Edison

5. Akito Morita

6. Where was television invented?

1. in Scotland

2. in Russia

3. in Japan

4. in China

5. in Germany

7. When was Microsoft invented?

a. in 1981

b. in 1932

c. in 1987

d. in 1979

e. in 1998

III. Watch the video and tell us if this information is True or False:

1. The first automobile was invented in 1926.
2. The first refrigerator was invented by Alexander Bell.
3. The first automobile was invented instead of the use of a horse carriage.

4. Now almost everything requires an automobile as shown in the video.
5. Nuclear technology was first discovered in 1991.
6. The internet is on the first place according to the video.

7. A thing considered as an invention shown in the video is not a radio or television, but … automobile.

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IV. Do you agree with this quote? Why/Why not?

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."