Inventions and inventors

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INVENTIONS AND
INVENTORS
Семенова А.В.
Учитель английского языка, г. Москва
ГБОУ «Школа 117»

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The Plan
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What is the invention?
Match the words and definitions
Which things are the most or least useful in
the house from your point of view?
Match inventors and their inventions
Inventions Date
Inventions in our life
Modern invention
TRUE or FALSE
Advantages and Disadvantages of Modern
Invention

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"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to
regard old questions from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real
advance".
"Imagination is more important than
knowledge".
Albert Einstein

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To invent is to see a new.
An invention is a new composition,
device, or process. Some inventions are
based on pre-existing models or ideas
and others are radical breakthroughs.
Inventions can extend the boundaries of
human knowledge or experience.

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Match the words and definitions
1. a TV set
a. to take photographs
2. a car
b. to receive or make calls around the
home
3. a computer
c. to perform everyday cleaning tasks
4. a video player
d. to move fast and quick around the
world
5. a camera
e. to watch pre-recorded videos
6. a vacuum cleaner
f. to keep food fresh for a long time
7. a fridge
g. to have fun and to entertain,
watching films, cartoons and others
8. a mobile telephone
h. a system for sending or receiving
speech
over long distance
9. a plane
i. to write programs, play games, find
and
use information
10. a telephone
j. to move wherever you want by
yourself

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Which things are the most or least
useful in the house from your point of
view?
1. I think that ….. is the most important thing.
2. We can …..
3. Some of the inventions, for example …. is
less important.
4. We do not often …..
5. And I’m sure we can do without …..

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Match inventors and their inventions
Inventors
Inventions
1. Joseph Nicephore Niepce
a. television
2. Alexander Graham Bell
b. cinematography
3. Karl Benz
c. the Scotch tape
4. the Lumiere brothers
d. ballpoint pen
5. Wilbur and Orville Wright
e. Microsoft-DOS (Disk Operating
System).
6. L. Biro
f. airplane
7. James M. Spangler
g. petrol-driven car
8. John Logie Baird
h. vacuum cleaner
9. Jim Kirst
i. telephone
10. Alexander Fleming
j. photography
11. Sergey Korolyev
k. penicillin
12. Bill Gates
l. artificial satellite искусственный
спутник

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INVENTIONS
1. Joseph Nicephore Niepce from France pioneered photography
in 1829.
2. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell, an American engineer,
invented telephone.
3. Karl Benz produced the world’s first petrol-driven car in
Germany in 1878.
4. In 1895 the Lumiere brothers patented their cinematography
and opened the world’s first cinema in Paris.
5. Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first airplane in 1903.
6. The first ballpoint pen was produced in 1940 though it had
been invented by L. Biro, a Hungarian artist and journalist, in
1905.
7. In 1908 James M. Spangler from the USA built the first vacuum
cleaner.
8. John Logie Baird from Scotland invented television in 1926.
9. In 1928 Richard Drew perfected the Scotch tape, which had
been invented by Jim Kirst from the USA in 1923.
10. In 1945 the Nobel Prize was given to Alexander Fleming for
penicillin that had been discovered in 1928.
11. Sergey Korolyev designed the first artificial satellite in 1957.
12. In 1981 Bill Gates created Microsoft-DOS (Disk Operating
System).

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Inventions Date
television
cinematography
the Scotch tape
ballpoint pen
Microsoft-DOS
airplane
petrol-driven car
vacuum cleaner
telephone
photography
penicillin
artificial satellite
1829
1981
1876
1878
1957
1895
1903
1905
1923
1926
1928
1908

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Inventions in our life
1.You wash clothes in it
_______-_______
washing-machine
2. You use this thing to clean your flat, carpets
______ _______
vacuum cleaner
3. You can communicate with people who are away from you using thing.
It’s very compact. You can carry it in your bag or pocket. It has many
functions, it can wake you up in the morning, you can enjoy listening
to music with the help of it and even enjoy playing games
______ _________
mobile telephone

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4. You can wash dirty dishes in it
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dishwasher
5. You can cook, defrost and reheat pre prepared food in it
_________ ____
microwave oven

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TELEVISION
John Logie Baird
The television is one of the great inventions to
come out of Scotland. To all of us who enjoy
relaxing in front of the television, we have a
Scotsman to thank. John Logie Baird from
Helensburgh
(near
Glasgow)
invented
this
phenomenally successful communication device,
with the first ever television broadcast being
transmitted by the BBC in 1929. But the first
success took place on 25th October 1925. The first
person on television was a boy who worked in the
office next to Baird’s workroom in London. On 27th
January 1926 he demonstrated his invention before
an audience of scientists at the Royal Institution in
London.
In
addition,
using
infrared
light(инфракрасное излучение), he was able to
transmit pictures of people sitting in total darkness.
He named it “Noctovision”.

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Later with two friends he formed “Television Ltd”. In
1927 Baird sent pictures from London to Glasgow.
He also demonstrated color television in Glasgow. He
was also experimenting with, and demonstrating,
stereoscopic television. In the same year, using a
short-wave
transmitter,(коротковолновый
передатчик) he sent a television picture to the USA
and to a ship, the “Berengaria” in mid-Atlantic. He
launched “Baird International Television” with a
capital of 1 million pounds to exploit television
commercially.
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John Logie Biard was determined to achieve a fully
electronic color television receiver. And he did.
Using a two color (blue – green, orange – red)
cathode ray system (был полон решимости
создать
полностью
электронный
цветной
телевизионный
приемник.
Используя
двухцветную
-лучевую
систему)
he
demonstrated, on 16th August 1944, the television
picture of his favorite tailor’s dummy (манекен),
dressed in a pink jacket and blue trousers, to a
group of journalists in his workshop in London.

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TRUE or FALSE
1. The television came out of France
False. It came out of Scotland
2. Alexander Graham Bell invented television in 1930
False. John Logie Baird invented television in 1926
3. John Baird demonstrated his invention before an audience of scientists at
the Royal Institution in London
True
4. The first person on television was a boy who worked in the office next to
Baird’s workroom in London
True
5. In 1935 Baird managed to sent pictures from London to Paris
False. In 1927 Baird managed to sent pictures from London to Glasgow
6. John Baird launched “Baird International Television” with a capital of 5
million pounds to exploit television commercially.
False. He launched “Baird International Television” with a capital of 1 milion
pounds
7. John Logie Baird demonstrated the first television colour picture on 16th
August in 1944.
True

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Television
Facts
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1. It is the most popular part of mass media. Television is the easiest
and the cheapest source of information.
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2. There are programmes devoted to specialized subjects such as life
of animals or plants, science, politics and many others. Watching such
programmes we learn a lot of useful and interesting information.
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3. Television sometimes substitutes our nearest and dearest. It
prevents us from communicating with our friends and relatives.
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4. Watching TV too much may be dangerous for your eyesight.
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5. There are very exciting, funny and humorous programmes, concerts
full of wonderful music and songs especially on holidays. So,
television entertains us and we like it because it makes us forget our
everyday problems.
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6. Today you can see many films on TV which are filled with cruel and
violent scenes that is very bad especially for children and teenagers.
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7. TV gives us opportunity to travel around the world without getting
up from the sofa. We can learn about life of people in different
countries, their customs and traditions and we don’t pay for it.
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Some people say that television is a
reflection of modern world. It shows
contemporary society. Others say that it
affects customs and culture. Television is
bad for culture because it keeps culture
from growing, say still others.
Good or bad, television is difficult to avoid.
Its pictures enter homes, stores, airports
and factories. It is here to stay!

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Home task
Make a report about one of
the inventors and his
invention

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Thank you for
the lesson