Discuss

• Do you agree with the author’s choice of the most significant discoveries and inventions? Why?/Why not?

• Compare the lists of the breakthroughs you have made with that of the author’s.

• Do you think that scientific and technological achievements have really made the world a better place to live? Give reasons for your opinion. Focus on language

1. Read the sentences and study the dictionary entry for the word like. What part of speech is this word in the following sentences?

• …choosing the most important breakthroughs and inventions of the last 100 years is like choosing the most beautiful flower in a garden of roses.

• Some breakthroughs, like Einstein’s theory of relativity, redefined our understanding of the universe …

• … DNA controls what we look like and our susceptibility and resistance to disease …

Like v [T] 1. to enjoy or approve of (sth/smb) I like it when a book is so good that you can’t put it down. 2. to want (sth) I’d like to go to Greece for my holidays .3. prep, conjunction similar to, in the same way or manner as He looks like his brother. 4. adj [not gradable] people who are described as like-minded share the same opinions, ideas or interests.5.pl n Your likes are the things that you enjoy.

Practice

1. Read and translate the sentences. What is the function of the word like?

1. They look like they don't want to go to the cinema.

2. He likes helping in the lab.

3. We have a lot in common with my sister, the same likes and dislikes.

4. Which of the books do you like best?

5. Like I said, I don’t mind helping you with this task.

6. Have you met your new tutor? What’s he like?

7. I would like to take up a text and speech processing course next year.

8. There’s nothing like a nice of coffee in the morning to wake you up.

9. My friend has always been interested in natural disasters such as tsunami, tornadoes, volcanoes and the like.

10. My friends are cheerful and energetic like me.

2. Make up the sentences of your own with different functions of the word like.

3. Read the following sentence from the text and decide what parts of speech the words in bold are.

• The first entirely synthetic plastic, Bakelite, was invented by American chemist Leo Baekeland in 1909.

Suffixes Suffixes (word-endings) come at the end of a word. They show whether the word is a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb. Learning these word-endings can help you recognize a noun, adjective, verb, or adverb. Noun Suffixes -ity means condition or quality of sth E.g. capability, flexibility -sion, -tion means act of sth; state of sth. E.g. -er, -or means one who; that/which. E.g. -ist means one who; that/which. E.g. -ance, -ence means act of sth; state of sth; quality of sth. E.g. preference, attendance -ness means state of -ment means act of sth; state of sth; result of sth. -dom means: - state or condition; domain, position, rank; a group with position, rank. -y -ure Adjective Suffixes -ic means characteristic of sth; like sth.E.g. -al means relating to sth. E.g. -able means able; or giving. E.g. -ous means full of ; having. -ful means full of ; having. -less means without -en means made of Adverb Suffixes -ly at the end of a word almost always makes an adverb; occasionally it will make an adjective. quick+ly. Verb Suffixes -en means to make -ize means to make -ate means to have or be characterized by -ify or -fy means to cause to become or to make.