Reading comprehension

I. True or False?

Alfred Nobel had deep knowledge in different fields of science.
He studied at the University where he learned languages.
He got interested in chemistry and by the time he was twenty became a skillful chemist.
His father was a very successful businessman and died very rich.
Alfred Nobel was a man of imagination and at the same time showed great financial and business sense.
Nobel was very happy in his private life.
He was always cheerful and lived the life of a very rich man.
He spent much time and money for the cause of peace and brotherhood between nations.
His famous will in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in Science and Peace is a memorial to his ideals.

II. Form sentences matching word groups on the left and on the right with butand make the necessary changes. You will see that Nobel’s life was really full of contrasts.

Example:

To be a millionaire (but) to live a simple life

He was a millionaire but lived a simple life.

to be an industrialist to live more than 20 years in Russia

to be cheerful in company to be sad in private

to love all mankind to be a skillful chemist and an excellent

linguist

to invent dynamite BUT to show great business and financial science

improve peacetime industries

to be a Swede not to have a wife or a family to love him

to be a patriot of his native country to die alone in a foreign land

never to study at school or University to see it is used as a weapon to kill people

to be a man of imagination to remain an idealist

III. Choose the information from the text about:

Alfred Nobel’s father;
Nobel’s interests and activity;
The contrasts in his life;
Alfred Nobel as a scientist;
Alfred Nobel’s will;

6. Nobel prize winners

and make a brief retelling in oral or written form.

LISTENING

We were talking about scientists and inventors, about their achievements and inventions in the last lessons. Today we are listening to a text about a scientist and an inventor. Before listening try to guess the meaning of the following words and word combinations from the text:

To carry out, discovery, nephew, quarrel, fortune, iron, powerful, dynamite, to explode.

Listen to the story "Uncle Philip" and be ready to answer the following questions.

1. Who was Uncle Philip? What did Uncle Philip do for a living?

2. What was he famous for?

3. Who did he send for when he was dying?

4. What did he say to Tom?

5. What was written in the letter?

6. Why did Uncle Philip decide to act in this way?

7. Can you think of any plan for opening the box?

SPEAKING

Retell the story.

You are Tom. Tell us what you know about your uncle and his decision to leave his fortune to you.

Homework

On/offline activity. Speaking practice

Work in groups

I. Now we know many interesting facts from Alfred Nobel’s life. And you can have a great opportunity to find out: how his fund works nowadays.

Find the information from the Internet Resources about:

The foundation of the Nobel Prize Fund (the date, the place, some other facts);

The facts about the first Nobel Prize Winners (the name of the winners, the nationality, the year, and the fields of their activity);

About our compatriots (Jhores Alferov, Boris Pasternak, Lev Landau, Joseph Brodsky) and other Nobel Prize Winners in physics, literature, etc. (the name, the year, fields of activity, their family, some extraordinary facts from their life);

About the Nobel Prize Winners in 2007 in different fields of sciences (the name of the winners, the nationality, and the fields of their activity) and retell this interesting information to your groupmates.

Recommended resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhores_Alferov

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/index.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/evans-lecture.html

http://nobelprize.org/

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2007/index.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2007/

http://nobelprize.org/prize_announcements/economics/eco_questions_07.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau

II. Write an interesting story about one of the Nobel Prize Winners and send the story to the teacher by e-mail.

Do revision test and also send it to the teacher.

Lesson 4

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