ACTIVE VOCABULARY
Unit III
SCIENTISTS
(famous people)
Lesson 1
LEAD-IN
Look at the photos and answer the questions:
Do you know the names of these well-known people? Where are they from? What fields of science did they work in?
Now match the names of these famous people on the left with their profession on the right:
Alexander Bell
Sofia Kovalevskaya an inventor
Thomas Edison a physicist
Albert Einstein an engineer
Marie Curie a mathematician
Pyotr Kapitsa a scientist
Rudolf Diesel
ACTIVE VOCABULARY
Give synonyms or close meanings of the following words and word combinations and try to pronounce them correctly:
Prominent, to be expelled, fortress, science, scientist, scientific, founder, nuclear, to establish, incredible, to devote to, to defend, defence, entirely, technology, common knowledge, device, valve, to transmit, to prove, to disprove, capable, to list.
Below is a text about one of the most famous Russian scientists, Pyotr Kapitsa. Before reading try to answer the questions:
What field of science did he work in?
What did he prove?
What institute in Moscow is named after him?