After reading activity

Task 5. Answer the following questions:

1. Why is electricity necessary in modern life?

2. What have researchers in MIT devised?

3. What is the main principle of wireless electricity?

4. How does the receiver work?

5. Who was the first inventor of theories of wireless power transmission?

6. Did Tesla’s theory immediately lead to widespread?

7. How did it become possible to power a 60 watt light bulb?

8. What are the examples of wireless transmission of energy?

Task 6. Decide which of the following statements are true (T) or false (F):

1. Before the advent of witricity it was used to provide electrical energy through the wires.

2. There were two main components of any wireless system – sending and receiving devices.

3. The use of witricity is becoming more and more prevalent.

4. Witricity system produces magnetic field, which helps to use less energy.

5. Tesla’s idea about powering lights in the ground at his station instantly has become instantly popular.

6. Scientists of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made it possible to provide energy to the simplest light bulb remotely.

1	2	3	4	5	6
T	T	T	T	T	T
F	F	F	F	F	F

Task 7. Complete the sentences with appropriate words from the text:

1. While the idea may _____ futuristic it isn’t _____ new.

2. The _____ transmission of energy is common in much of the world.

3. Electricity is today a _____ of modern life.

4. These researchers _____ the term _____ .

5. A similar method of transferring electrical power would be both inefficient and _____ .

6. Tesla’s work was _____ , but it didn’t immediately lead to _____ .

7. One of coils were _____ to a power _____.

8. A witricity system _____ of a witricity _____ and another device called _____ .

Task 8. Match the English words and word combinations from the column A with their Ukrainian equivalents from the column B:

A	B
wireless conventional to devise to be in sight to provide transmission waste widespread а magnetic field efficiency	винаходити бездротовий традиційний забезпечувати чимось, надавати щось магнітне поле втрата бути в зоні досяжності продуктивність, ефективність широке розповсюдження передача

Task 9. Rearrange the letters in each jumbled word to get a correct one. Make up sentences with the correct words as in the example:

Example: 0. lubb – bulb; Energy saving natural lighting bulbs enjoy the benefits of natural daylight indoors with these remarkable fluorescent bulbs.

1. sionmitrasns

2. chreeresar

3. wiadedersp

4. swiselre

5. esdevi

6. sawet

7. vreeicer

8. icol

Task 10. Fill the gaps in order to complete the expressions. Translate them into Ukrainian:

1. m_dern li_e;

2. con_ent_onal use;

3. w_tricit_ s_stem;

4. w_stage of p_wer;

5. p_wer transmi_sion;

6. e_ectric to_thbrush;

7. to re_ch anten_a_.

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