English : Common Core Classes

Unit 8 (Science & Technology) - Communication

 

 

Teacher : Mme ZAARA Asmae

 

Summary

 

I- Activities

1-1/ Great Scientists

1-2/ Inventions

1-3/ New Technologies

II- Practice

2-1/ Exercise 1

2-2/ Exercise 2

 


I- Activities

 

1-1/ Great Scientists

Activity 1
  • Ask and answer questions to complete the missing information in your biographies :

 

 

1-2/ Inventions

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Activity 1
  • Have a conversation with your partner. Ask and answer questions about the missing information :

Example:

A : Who invented the modern escalator?
B : Charles Seeberger.

 

 

1-3/ New Technologies

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Activity 1
  • Have a conversation with your partner. Ask and answer questions about the missing information :

Example:

B : When did Charles Seeberger invent the modern escalator?
A : In 1900.

 

II- Practice

 

2-1/ Exercise 1

  • Ask and answer questions about the following statements. Refer to activities for confirmation :

1)

A: Marie Curie was from France, wasn't she?
B: No, she wasn't. She was from Poland.

2)

A: She won the Nobel Prize in physics only, ___________?
B: _________________________________________________________________

3)

A: Albert Einstein was born on April 15, 1869,  ___________?
B: _________________________________________________________________

4)

A: Einstein didn't have any children with his first wife, ___________?
B: _________________________________________________________________

5)

A: All Louis Pasteur's children died of typhoid fever, ___________?
B: _________________________________________________________________

6)

A: The vaccine against rabies wasn't efficient, ___________?
B: _________________________________________________________________

7)

A: A doctor was examining a patient when he discovered Coca Cola, ___________?
B: _________________________________________________________________

8)

A: Edison was seriously sick when he died, ___________?
B: _________________________________________________________________

9)

A: Microsoft started Windows in 1980, ___________?
B: _________________________________________________________________

10)

A: PC is the acronym for people's computers, ___________?
B: _________________________________________________________________