2. Match words in column a with its definition in column b.
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Inventor |
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an aeroplane with one pair of wings |
2 |
Flight |
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an early type of aircraft with two pairs of wings |
3 |
Airscrew |
C |
very great in amount, scale, or intensity |
4 |
Tremendous |
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a person who invented a particular process or device or who invents things as an occupation |
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Biplanes |
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the action or process of flying through the air |
6 |
Monoplane |
F |
an aircraft propeller |
7 |
Glider |
G |
metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread or rod |
8 |
Wire |
H |
a type of aircraft which derives both lift and propulsion from one or two sets of horizontally revolving overhead rotors. |
9 |
Parachute |
I |
a light aircraft that is designed to fly without using an engine |
10 |
Helicopter |
J |
a cloth canopy which fills with air and allows a person |
3.Write down the words that you have known beforeon the left side, and on right side words you know now
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4.Match the sentences to the pictures in correct order and number them. Speak about them.
1. Otto Lilienthal, May 29, 1895.Otto Lilienthal became known as the “Glider King” or “Flying Man” of Germany.
2. Airships were originally called “dirigible balloons” and are still sometimes called dirigibles today.
3. From ancient times the Chinese have understood that hot air rises and have applied the principle to a type of small hot air balloon called a sky lantern.
4. Woodcut prints of a kite from John Bate’s 1635 book The Mysteries of Nature and Art.
5. Leonardo da Vinci’s Ornithopter design.
6. Propeller aircraft use one or more propellers (airscrews) to create thrust in a forward direction.
7. Jet aircraft use airbreathing jet engines, which take in air, burn fuel with it in a combustion chamber, and accelerate the exhaust rearwards to provide thrust.
8. The Boeing 777-200LR is the longest-range airliner, capable of flights of more than halfway around the world.
9. French reconnaissance balloon L'Intrépide of 1796, the oldest existing flying device, in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.