Раздаточный материал к уроку английского языка в 10 классе по теме "Выдающиеся изобретатели России и других стран"

Inventors and their inventions

II. Read the text and open the brackets. Use the correct verb form (Active or Passive).

*Rudolf Diesel, a talented engineer, 1)________ (be born) in Germany in 1858; in 1897 he 2)________ (invent) a new internal combustion engine. This engine 3)________ (call) «diesel» and it began a transport revolution due to running on cheap fuel.

*Samuel Finley Morse 4)________ (work) as a portrait painter and was a talented artist but then he 5)________ (become) an inventor. For 12 years he 6)________ (try) to perfect the telegraph when, eventually, he succeeded: a telegraphic dot-and-dash alphabet 7)________ (invented) by him. The US government supported Morse and 8)________ (give) money for laying an experimental telegraph line. Soon telegraphic lines 9)________ (construct) all over the USA.

*Charles Makintosh, a chemist by profession, 10)________ (live) in Glasgow, Scotland, and 11)________ (work) in a textile industry. One day in 1823 he 12)________ (do) some research on rubber when he accidentally 13)________ (find) a rubber solution. It could 14)________ (use) for raincoat production. These raincoats 15)________ (call) makintoshes. Still people wear them in spring and in autumn.

*Sergei Korolev 16)________ (be) a Soviet spacecraft designer and rocket engineer whose crew 17)________ (take) an active part in the Space Race between the USSR and the USA in the 1950-60s. The R-7 Rocket with Yuri Gagarin 18)________ (launch) by S.Korolev into space as well as Belka, Strelka, and Laika.

*Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847-1923) 19)________ (study) at the Tambov Cadet School and 20)________ (work) as a worker at the Tula weapons factory. In 1874 the electric filament lamp 21)________ (invent) and 22)________ (patent) by this great engineer. Later he moved to the USA and 23)________ (try) to organise a mass production of his invention. Unfortunately, it 24)________ (not be) commercially profitable. His patent 25)________ (sell) to Thomas Edison’s company.

III Complete the sentences using the information from the text:

The internal engine…..…..in …….. by………. .

The diesel became ………… because……….. .

Before the invention a telegraphic alphabet Samuel Morse…………. .

Charles Makintosh worked………….. and conducted experiments on………..

S.P.Korolev is known as……………… who created…………………… .

Lodygin invented…………….. but…………………

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