2. Answer the questions.

1. How did different inventions change the life of people?

2. How is information technology connected with physics?

3. In what ways has technology improved life in general?

4. Does technology play a big part in your life?

5. What are the benefits of research?

6. What methods of experimentation are you in favour of?

7. Has the advance of technology brought only benefits?

8. What technological improvements do you think will have taken place in fifty years' time?

9. Does technology play a big part in your life?

3. Read the information about the information about the Nobel Prizes, fill in the proper words and say which scientists mentioned in the text became Nobel laureates and for what discoveries.

International memory chemist three laureate along recognition awarded dynamite posthumously prestigious

The Nobel Prizes are annual _____ awards bestawed by Scandinavian committees in _____of cultural and scientific advances. They were established by the Swedish _____ Alfred Nobel, the inventor of _____. The Prizes in physics, chemistry, psychology or medicine, literature and peace efforts were first _____ in 1901. The Sveriges Riksbank prize in Economic sciences in _____ of Nobel was instituted in 1968. Although this is not technically a Nobel Prize, its announcements and presentations are made _____with other prizes. Each Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most _______ award in its field. Each ----- is presented with a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money which depends on the Nobel Foundation’s income that year. The Prize cannot be awarded ______, nor may a prize be shared among more than _______ people.

4. Find the information about female Nobel laureates and present your findings to the students.

5. Repeat Passive Voice and rewrite sentences in Passive.

1. He design new websites.

2. They are doing the research.

3. A scientist has completed an experiment.

4. P. Spencer invented a microwave oven.

5. The Wright brothers had invented a plane before other scientists started to work on the problem.

6. The USA will launch a new spaceship.

7. They will have built a rocket by that time.

6. Read the information and say :

a) what and where inventions were made in the 19 century

b) which of them had been made by the beginning of the 21 century

c) who the inventions were made by

d) which of them are being improved nowadays

Use Passive Voice

Example: Sergiy Korolyov (Ukraine) designed the first artificial satellite in 1957.

The first artificial satellite was invented in 1957. It was invented by the famous scientist Sergiy Korolyov The artificial satellites are being improved by the scientists of other countries.

1. Scottish scientist Jan Wilmut developed the idea of cloning in 1996.

2. Alexander Graham Bell, an American engineer, invented the telephone in 1876.

3. Yevhen Paton, a Ukrainian scientist, invented electric welding in 1938.

4. Jon Logie Baird from Scotland invented television in 1926.

5. Bill gates (the USA) invented Microsoft-Dos in 1981.