"Famous Ukrainian inventors and scientists"

Do you know famous Ukrainian inventors and scientists? Who are they?

Pupils name the inventions and inventors

T. Say what you use when you want to:

1) enjoy listening to music

2) get useful information 

3) travel fast 

4) be treated with antibiotic 

5) watch films 

6) make photo 

7) stay connected 

8) have a travel and stop where you want 

Charles Darwin

   Darwin had not planned to be a scientist. He wanted to become a doctor. But he was interested in plants and animals.
   A friend who knew about Darwin's interest in nature invited him to take the trip. Charles was 22 when he left England for a five-year trip around the world.
   This trip is a very important one in the history of science, for it led Darwin to write one of the world’s most famous books. The book is "The Origin of Species".
   It gives Darwin's ideas of how all the plants and animals of today have come from the very simple plants and animals that first lived on the Earth. Darwin was seasick for much of the voyage, but he came back with the notes for his great book.
   He visited the Galapagos Islands, Australia, and New Zealand. There he saw many strange plants and animals.
   These were Darwin's chief ideas: many more plants and animals are produced than can possibly live. There are no two plants and animals, even of the same kind, which would be exactly alike. The idea that all the plants and animals of today came from the simple plants and animals of long ago is called "The theory of evolution".

Isaak Newton

   Newton, one of the greatest scientists of all times was born in 1642 in the little village in Lincolnshire, England. His father was a farmer and died before Newton was born. His mother was a clever woman whom he always loved.
   After the school, Newton studied mathematics at Cambridge University and received his degree in 1665. Then the university was closed because of the danger of plague and Newton went home for eighteen months. It was most important period in his life when he made his three great discoveries - the discoveries of the differential calculates, of the nature of white light, and of the law of gravitation.
   These discoveries are still important for the modern science. Newton had always been interested in the problems of light. Many people saw colors of a rainbow but only Newton showed, by his experiments, that white light consists of these colors.
   It is interesting how he discovered the law gravitation. Once, as he sat at the garden, his attention was drawn by the fall of an apple. Many people saw such unusual thing before.
   But it was Newton who asked himself a question: "Why does that apple fall perpendicularly to the ground? Why doesn't it go sideward’s or upwards?" The answer to this question was the theory of gravitation, discovered by Newton.
   Newton died at the age of 84, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where his monument stands today.

Michael Faraday

   Michael Faraday is one of the great scientists in the history of man's work in electricity. He was born in a small village near London on September 11, 1791, in a poor family. At the age of thirteen Michael went to work in a bookbinder's shop, because he didn't have much schooling. Some of the scientific works and articles which passed through his hands aroused his interest in science and he started to read.

   Sometime later Michael became a pupil of great scientist of that time, Sir Humphrey Davy. The boy accompanied Davy in his trips to Europe. Today almost all the electricity we use is generated by great machines with magnets in them, but in those days no one knew how to do it. English scientist could move the magnet near wire. This was a great moment in the history of man's electrical experiments. But Faraday didn't stop at this.

   Faraday's scientific interests were varied. He made new kind of glass and a new kind of steel. Faraday made about two thousand difficult experiments and made countless discoveries in chemistry and physics. He made a wonderful machine which was the father of all the great machines that make electricity today. They light and heat our houses and they make our radio-sets work. Michael Faraday was the creator of the electric motor, who ushered us in the electrical age which had changed the face of the earth.

Write a few sentences.

Charles Datwin was a … .

Isaak Newton is a … .

Michael Faraday is a … .

a)Fill in with the words from the box.

Academician Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov, the famous (1)... and designer of space-rocket systems, was born in the city of Zhytomyr in the family of a teacher. From 1927 he worked in the aircraft (2)... . In 1930, without leaving his job, he (3)... from Moscow Bauman Higher Technical School and finished a flying school in Zhytomyr in the same year.

After a meeting with Tsiolkovsky and studying his ideas, Korolyov became a (4)... enthusiast. He was one of the (5)... of modern space-rocket engineering¹.

^{In 1933, when the Group for Studying Jet Propulsion1} was organised, and the first experimental rockets were made and (6)..., Korolyov took part in its work. Since then on Korolyov devoted himself to (7)... space-rocket engineering. In 1957 the first Earth satellites in the world were put into orbit with the help of the systems he had designed² and the far side of the Moon was photographed.

He controlled the spaceships, in which man first flew into (8)... and from which he walked out into space.

Korolyov trained many scientists and engineers who are now leading the work in (9)... institutes and design offices which specialise in the sphere of space-rocket (10)... .

Answer the questions.

1. How old was Korolyov when he began to work in the aircraft industry?
2. When did Korolyov graduated from Moscow Bauman Higher Technical School?
3. What connection with aviation did Korolyov have before he became interested in cosmonautics ?
4. What was the result of Korolyov's meeting with Tsiolkovsky?
5. What was done in space research under Korolyov's control?

Writing

Put the verbs in the brackets into the Past, Present, Future Simple Passive Voice.

1. Our stories ... (to publish) in the next issue of our school newspaper.
2.            Many inventions ... (to make ) many years ago.
3.            A cell phone ... (to use ) as a receiver.
4. Mobile phones ... (to sell) and ... (to use) everywhere.
5.            I hope the invitation ... (to accept) by everybody.
6.            I'm sure I ... (to ask) at the lesson tomorrow.