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1. The Scientists and the Watches

1. The two scientists were arguing about whose watch was better.

2. They couldn't continue the experi­ment because there was something wrong with both watches.

3. They observed the watches for a couple of hours without speaking.

4. They realised the Swiss watch was losing sixty minutes an hour.

5. (b) if a watch is losing sixty minutes in sixty minutes, it's stopped.

6. (a) Once in every twelve hours the Swiss watch would show the right time.

7. The Japanese watch was losing 120 minutes every sixty minutes.

8. (с) It is going backwards if it loses 120 minutes every sixty minutes. In other words, every time a clock telling the correct time moved for­ward an hour, the Japanese clock moved back exactly an hour.

9. The Japanese watch will show the correct time twice in every 12-hour period, i. e., every six hours.

10. The scientist with the Japanese watch was right when he said, "My watch is right more often than yours."

11. Neither watch tells the correct time - they only show it. You wouldn't know they were showing it without a third watch to refer to.

2. Word Bingo

Material for the game "Word Bingo"

1. A system of words used by the people of one country as a means of communication, (language)

2. A spoken or written test organised by teachers in order to check students' knowledge in this or that subject, (examination)

3. A science which is concerned with the study of matter and natu­ral forces, (physics)

4. The study or science of different numbers and calculations. (mathematics)

5. A useful thing or idea which is produced by scientists for the first time. (invention)

6. The study of events of a nation. These events are usually ar­ranged in order from the earlier time to the later. The events concern the rulers and the governments. (history)

7. The whole world around us: trees, rivers, lakes, animals and so on. (nature)

8. Something is finished or gained through skill or hard work. (achievement)

9. A system of special tracks for trains with locomotives and sta­tions. (railway)

10. The passing of the seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months taken as a whole, (time)

11. Water in the state of gas produced by boiling at the tempera­ture of 100 degrees, (steam)

12. A black or dark brown mineral can be found deep in the earth. It can be burnt to give heat. Gas and other products can be made of this mineral. (coal)

13. An underground or underwater passage for an automobile road. railway. Very often it is built through or under a hill, a river, a town or a mountain. (tunnel)

14. Heavy firm earth. When it is wet it is soft, but it becomes hard when it is heated to a high temperature. Many things are made of it, for example, cups, plates and bricks. (clay)

15. Flat pieces of bread with some cold food between them. It is eaten with your hands. (sandwich)

16. Knowledge or skill which comes from practice rather than books. (experience)

17. A trail or a test which is made usually by. scientists to learn something or prove some scientific idea. (experiment)

18. The movement of people or vehicles along the streets or roads, the movement of ships in the seas, the movement of planes in the sky. (traffic)

19. The rate of movement, in other words, it is the distance trav­elled divided by the time of travel. (speed)

20. A measure of length which is equal to about 30.5 cm. (foot)

21. Something unpleasant, undesirable or damaging that happens quite unexpectedly or by chance. (accident)

22. The study or knowledge which can be made into a system and which depends on seeing, understanding and testing facts. (science)

23. The case of finding something which existed before but was not known to people. It is often a place or a scientific fact. (discovery)

24. The act of interpretation with the help of words, pictures, ges­tures. (explanation)

25. A difficulty that needs attention and thought in order to solve it. (problem)

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