Microscope

would you use if you wanted to:

• see if someone had broken a bone?

• make something tiny look larger?

• improve efficiency in a factory?

• take blood from someone or inject a medical drug into them?

• search for new planets and stars?

• perform a delicate medical operation or cut through a diamond?

Exercise 7. How much do you know about famous scientists?

Make statements about the people choosing the correct information from the table:

 

Isaac Newton Charles Richter Marie Curie Galileo Jacques Cousteau   Pythagoras Nicolas Copernicus Vasco da Gama

invented discovered devised

radium the orbits of the planets Mathematical laws the telescope the aqualung(used in scuba diving)   a sea route to India, going to Africa the law of gravity a scale for measuring earthquakes

Exercise 8. Match the verbs (1-8) with the nouns (a-h) to make statements about the work done by scientists:

1. perform a) factories to make them work more efficiently with

fewer people;

2. condition b) new drugs and vaccines to immunise people

against diseases

3. apply c) research into various scientific issues;

4. make d) experiments to test their theories;

5. do e) people and animals to behave in a certain way;

6. clone f) scientific knowledge to practical problems;

7 automate g) calculations based on statistical data

8. develop h) plants and animals to make exact copies of them.

Exercise 9. Read the following text and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space:

Science promises to change our lives in many ways in the twenty-first century. Most people probably (1)... future scientific (2)... with travelling to distant planets or with the host of new (3)... that will be available in twenty-first-century homes. However, it is probably in the (4)... of medicine that science will have the greatest (5)... on people's lives.

(6)... is going on to find ways to (7).... people against AIDS, which has claimed the lives of so many young people, and to (8)... cures for terrible (9)... like cancer. Of course, before any of these are made available to the public, they will have been thoroughly(10)....

1. A) connect	B) link	C) associate	D) join
2. A) developments	B) progresses	C) improvement	D) advance
3. A) mechanisms	B) gadgets	C) instruments	D) machines
4. A) subject	B) department	C) region	D) field
5. A) impact	B) force	C) change	D) affect
6. A) Research	B) Investigation	C) Studying	D) Analysis
7. A) inject	B) immunise	C) defend	D) cure
8. A) invent	B) locate	C) discover	D) make
9. A) diseases	B) illnesses	C) sicknesses	D) infections
10. A) proven	B) tried	C) checked	D) tested

Exercise 10. Pre-reading discussion:

Discuss the following questions. Give your own definitions:

1) What is science?

2) Who can be called a scientist?

3) Who is a scholar? In what way is he different from a scientist?

4) What sciences do you know?

5) What is the main aim of any science?

6) What was the first science in the life of humanity?

Exercise 11. Words to know:

a) Check the meaning of the words, learn the new words for you:

a science наука

a discipline/a subject дисципліна, предмет

a scientist науковець

a scholar вчений

to discover відкривати

to invent винаходити

knowledge знання

brain мозок

 

b) Complete the table with necessary word forms from the following list: