Vocabulary

laureate – лауреат

Nobel Prize – Нобелівська премія

dynamite – динаміт

will – заповіт

SEK – шведська крона

fund – фонди, кошти; гроші

field – галузь, поле діяльності

individual – особа, індивідуум

anniversary – річниця

to stipulate – обумовлювати, ставити за умову

Exercise 4. Complete the sentences according to the text:

1. The Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in …

2. Each prize consists of …

3. The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded...

4. The Nobel Prizes have been presented …

5. Since 1969 an additional prize …

6. The Prize Award Ceremony …

7. In 1990 the event moved to …

Exercise 5. Answer the questions according to the facts from the text:

1. When was Alfred Nobel born?

2. How many languages did Alfred Nobel speak?

3. What was Alfred Nobel?

4. How much did he leave in his will?

5. What has the Nobel Prize been awarded for?

6. What is the Nobel Prize?

7. How many times were the Nobel Prize and the Prize in Economic Sciences awarded between 1901 and 2012?

8. What do you know about the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony?

Exercise 7. Match the words with their definitions:

Anniversary to demand or specify (a requirement)

Outstanding a thing done successfully with effort or skill

Achievement a document giving directions

To stipulate exceptionally good

Will the date on which an event took place

Laureate a sum of money for a particular purpose

Fund a person who is honoured with an award

*Exercise 8. Read and translate the text:

The Nobel Prize

Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize is awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace.

The Nobel Prize is an international award of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.

Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award.

The festival day of the Nobel Foundation is on the 10th of December, the anniversary of Nobel’s death. The

The Award Ceremony for the Nobel Prizes takes place at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

Each year the Nobel Committees send individual invitations to academies, universities, scientists, the previous Nobel laureates asking them to submit candidates for the coming year.

Six laureates have got more than one prize. For example, the International Committee of the Red Cross has got the Nobel Peace Prize three times.

Among the 826 Nobel laureates, 43 were women.

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie. She won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. She was also the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, the second was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.

The Nobel Prize is not awarded because of world events or a lack of nominations. The prize money is returned to the funds.

The Nobel Prize was not awarded between 1940 and 1942 because of World War II.

Exercise 9. Answer the following questions and share your knowledge about the Nobel Prize:

1. What is the Nobel Prize?

2. Who is Alfred Nobel?

3. What spheres is the prize given in?

4. What Nobel laureates and winners do you know?

5. What didn’t you know?

6. What is surprising/strange/new for you?

*Exercise 10. Group the following winners of the Nobel Prize according to the spheres they belong to. Build the sentences following the example:

e.g.: W.C. Röntgen got the Nobel Prize in physics in 1901.

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1901) Mikhail Gorbachev (1990)

Mother Teresa (1979) Max Planck (1918)

Ernest Hemingway (1954) Niels Bohr (1922)

Albert Einstein (1921) Nelson Mandela (1993)

Ivan Bunin (1933) Ivan Pavlov (1904)

Bernard Shaw (1925) Marie Curie (1911)

Woodrow Wilson (1919) Rudyard Kipling (1907)

Barack Obama (2009) Theodore Roosevelt (1906)

Physics	Chemistry	Physiology/ Medicine	Literature	The Nobel Peace Prize	Economy

Exercise 11. Decide if the statements are true or false:

1. The Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, biology, medicine, literature and for peace.

2. The Nobel Foundation is in Sweden.

3. The festival day of the Nobel Foundation is on the 11th of December.

4. The winner of the prize gets only a medal and a diploma.

5. The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the Nobel Peace Prize three times.

6. If nobody is awarded the prize money isn’t returned back to the fund.

**Exercise 14. Do a project according to the following plan:

• Who is Alfred Nobel? Tell something about his life and work.

• Tell whom would you nominate to the Nobel Prize? Why? What for?

• Tell about the most prominent Nobel laureates.

• Tell about the most significant invention in your opinion.

**Exercise 8. Speak on the given situation:

Imagine you are Alfred Nobel. Whom would you give a Nobel Prize nowadays and why?