4. Answer the questions on the text:

1. Where was Thomas Edison born?

2. What was he interested in when he was at school?

3. What was his first work?

4. What was Edison's greatest invention?

5. How did people meet this invention in America, Russia, and France?

6. What other inventions did Edison make in 1879?

7. What was Edison's motto in his life?

8. How did Edison define a genius?

5. Form adjectives from the following nouns and use them in sentences

difference, electricity, incandescence, importance, brilliance, chemistry, fluorescence

6. Translate the following sentences. Pay special attention to the words in bold type

1. The Irish Free State is a republic in Ireland.

2. The three states of matter are solid, liquid and gaseous.

3. It is stated in the book that most of the food in the United States comes from farming.

4. When the new concrete hardens it becomes very hard.

5. It is not hard to understand that fishing is hard work.

6. There are hardly any fruit-trees in Alaska.

7. The work he had agreed to do was not agreeable to him.

8. The new trade agreement is very important to both countries.

9. In most parts of the United States there may be great heat in summer.

10. Due to central heating the new blocks of flats are heated regularly.

7. Replace the italicized nouns by the personal pronouns in the Nominative or Objective Case

Model: Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847. -

He was born in 1847.

1. Edison experimented with thousands of different light bulb filaments. 2. Edison's mother taught him lessons at home and Thomas only studied the things he wanted to know.

3. At the age of ten, Edison read his first science book.

4. He hired mechanics and chemists to help him.

5. In 1879 Edison discovered that a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb glowed but did not burn up for quite a while.

6. Edison also invented the alkaline battery.

7. When the phonograph was demonstrated in the French Academy of Scienc­es, one of the learned men shouted that it was a shame to de­ceive people, he couldn't believe that dead metal could produce a living human voice.

8. Edison's success was immediate in America, but in Europe his invention was met with suspicion.

9. In October 21st, 1931, a few days after Edison's death, electric lights in the United States were dimmed for one minute.

8. Paraphrase the following sentences according to the model

Model: This is my invention. - This invention is mine.

1. This is his laboratory.

2. This is her book.

3. That was his discovery.

4. This is my drawing.

5. That was his new technology.

6. These were their instruments.

7. This is her powerful machine.

8. That was his article.

9. This is your new dictionary.

9. Speak about Thomas Alva Edison

UNIT7 (REVISION). MYKHAILO LOMONOSOV

1. Translate the following text:

Mykhailo Lomonosov was born in 1711in Archangelsk province. His father was fisher and young Mykhailo liked to help him. He always strove for knowledge and liked reading books. As he was 19 years old, he decided to study in Moscow. He went there on foot. In Moscow he entered the Slavic- Greek-Latin Academy. After his graduation from Academy he was sent abroad to complete his knowledge in chemistry and mining. After he had returned from abroad, he became the first Russian professor of chemistry in 1745.

At first he was engaged in research in physics and chemistry. Since 1748 he had conducted works in the first Russian chemical research laboratory, which was built at his request. Since 1753 he was engaged in research in many fields of natural and applied sciences. He wrote works on physics, astronomy, geography, history. Besides scientific works, he wrote poems as well. He is the author of the first scientific grammar of the Russian language.

He founded the factory producing colored glass. He created some mosaics using the glass produced at the factory.

Lomonosov was the founder of the first Russian university. This university is situated in Moscow and is still named after him.

Mykhailo Lomonosov died in 1765. But he is still known as the father of the Russian science, an outstanding poet, the founder of Russian literature.