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centennial – столетний, вековой

1. Work in pairs. Before reading the text answer the questions:

1. Have you ever seen the Statue of Liberty?

2.What does the statue have in its hand?

3. Where does the statue stand?

2. Read the text and check your answers.

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY –
THE WORLD-FAMOUS ATTRACTION

One of the most famous statues in the world stands on an island in New York Harbour. This statue is, of course, the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is a woman who holds a torch up high. Visitors can go inside the statue. The statue is so large that as many as twelve people can stand inside the torch. Many more people can stand in other parts of the statue. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 301 feet tall.

The Statue of Liberty was put up in 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France. Over the years France and the United States had a special relationship. In 1776 France helped the American colonies to gain independence from England. The French wanted to do something special for the U.S. centennial, its 100^th birthday.

Laboulaye was a well-known Frenchman who admired the United States. One night at a dinner in his house, Laboulaye talked about the idea of a gift. Among Laboulaye’s guests was the French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Bartholdi thought of a statue of liberty. He offered to design the statue.

Many people contributed in some way. The French people gave money for the statue. The Americans designed and built the pedestal for the statue to stand on. The American people raised money to pay for the pedestal. The French engineer Alexander Eiffel, who was famous for his Eiffel Tower in Paris, figured out how to make the heavy statue stand.

In the years after the statue was put up, many immigrants came to the United States through New York. As they entered New York Harbor, they saw the Statue of Liberty holding up its torch. It symbolized a welcome to a land of freedom.

Vocabulary

3. Complete the sentences. Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. The people of France wanted to give the United States a special … .

1. gift b. torch

1. France and United States had a special … .

   1. independence b. relationship

2. France helped the American colonies … independence.

   1. build b. gain

3. A famous Frenchman, Laboulaye, … the United States.

   1. admired b. visited

4. Frederic Bartholdi … to design the statue.

   1. contributed b. offered

5. The Statue of Liberty stands on a … .

   1. pedestal b. harbour

Grammar Focus: The Definite Article The with Geographical Names and Places

4. Complete the sentences with the correct article.

Use a or the. If no article is necessary, write –.

Example: The statue stands on an island in – New York Harbor.

1. … Statue of … Liberty was … gift to … United States from … people of … France.

2. Over … years … France and … United States had … special relationship.

3. In … 1776 … France helped … American colonies to gain … independence from … England.

4. … French paid for … statue.

1. … American people paid for … pedestal.

6. We saw…. Buckingham Palace and …. Houses of Parliament on our tour yesterday.

7. … British Museum and … Louvre hold the collections of art treasures.

8. We’ll get off at … Waterloo Station.

5. Work in pairs. a) Look for main ideas and circle the letter of the best answer.

1. The Statue of Liberty is a famous statue in … .

1. France b. The United States

1. The Statue of liberty was a gift … .

   1. form the people of France to the USA

   2. from Laboulaye and Eiffel to the USA

2. The Statue of Liberty symbolizes … .

   1. a woman with a torch b. land of freedom

b) Look for details and circle T if the sentence is true or circle F if the sentence is false.

1. Twelve people can stand inside the torch of the Statue of Liberty. T F

2. The United States helped France to gain its independence in 1776. T F

3. Alexander Eiffel was among the guests at Laboulayes’s house. T F

4. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was a French engineer. T F

5. Alexander Eiffel figured out how to make the statue stand. T F

6. Americans designed the pedestal for the statue. T F

6. Discuss the answers to these questions with your group-mates.

1. What other famous statues or monuments can you think of?

2. When we think of New York, we think of the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. List five other cities and the buildings, statues, and places they make you think of.

3. Do you have any famous statues or monuments in your country? What are they?

Description Tips

To describe a place, a building or a monument

a) first, you should give the name and location of the place, building or monument and the reason for choosing it; b) second, you should describe the main aspects of the place, building or monument in detail – for example what you can see and do there, the exterior and the interior and the historical facts about it, tell who built the house or erected the monument; c) then give your comments/feelings/ recommendations.

MODULE 4 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

UNIT 8 GREAT SCIENTISTS

Focus: Vocabulary Study: verbs to discover and to invent; science (general notion)

Focus: Great Scientists: Ernest Rutherford; Zhores Alferov – Nobel Prize Winner

Grammar focus: Uncountable nouns; the use of articles with abstract nouns

Skills focus: Reading for specific information; learning special terms; making a project.

I. Vocabulary Study:

1.Verbs: to discover and to invent

Nouns: a discovery and invention. What is the difference?

Look at the examples below and choose the correct words to put into the sentences in the box.

• Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876.

• Early man probably discovered fire when lightning struck a tree and made a fire in the forest.

• Marie Curie discovered uranium.

• The Aztecs discovered the chocolate tree, growing in the rain forest many hundred years ago. Then they invented a drink made from the fruit of this tree.

• Many people say that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. But that’s not really true. There were people living there already, so they knew all about America!

• The word «robot» was invented by Karel Capek in 1921. Now everybody uses the word, but it was a new word then.

• The planet Pluto was discovered in 1930, but of course it had been in the sky for billions of years.

When someone makes a __________, he or she finds something that already existed in our world. He or she _________ something new, but doesn’t create it.

When someone creates an __________ , he or she makes something new and useful. This idea or thing did not exist in the natural world before. He or she _________ something that no-one has ever thought before.

Grammar Focus: Uncountable nouns - Articles

2. 1) A basic knowledge of science or conscious thought is important for solving problems, but our unconscious minds often help in a surprising way.

Read the stories below and write the name of the person, their problem and what helped them to find the solution.

Name	the problem	the chance helped with the great discovery

2) Read the text again and put a, an, the or – in each gap.

a) Archimedes in his bath

Do you remember the story of 1____Greek scientist Archimedes? He was trying to solve 2____problem in 3_____physics – how to show if the king’s crown was made of 4_____ gold or not.

He thought and thought, but he could not find the answer. So he stopped worrying and had 5___ bath instead. Suddenly, 6___ answer came to his mind. He was so excited that he jumped out of his bath, naked, and ran down the street shouting, ‘I’ve found it!’ Actually, what he said in 7____ Ancient Greek was ‘Eureka!’ We still use this word in 8____English when we suddenly find 9___ answer to a problem.

b) Einstein on the tram

Albert Einstein had 1___ first idea about 2____ Theory of 3____ Relativity when he was traveling home from 4____ work on the tram in Geneva.

c) The scientist who saw the solution on a bus

The chemist ‘Kekule’ is famous for having discovered a lot about how 1____ atoms and 2____ molecules are arranged.

3____ first discovery happened when he was riding on a bus, one evening in about 1855, thinking about other things. Suddenly, he saw 4___ atoms dancing before his eyes. Then one atom joined another one to make 5____ chain. When he got off the bus he understood how 6___ atoms join together to make molecules.

3. Fill in the gaps with the, a, or –. Underline the correct word.

__ Scientists do __ lot of __ research in order to find __ cues for various diseases.

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