Famous people of great britain

There are many outstanding people in Great Britain. Britain produced statesmen, thinkers, explorers, musicians, writers, scientists and other people who are well known around the world.

Isaac Newton one of the greatest men in the history of science was born in a little village in the middle of the 17th century. He studied math at Cambridge University. Newton's contribution to physics astronomy and math is so great that, he may be considered the founder of the mordent mathematics and physics. He discovered the law of motion and the universal law of gravitation. He studded the nature of light and colour and came to the conclusion that white colour consists of many different colours known as spectrum. He died when he was 84 and was buried at Westminster Abbey.

Charles Darwin was born in the beginning of the 19th century. He was a great biologist. He created a new theory of evolution. Once there were only simple organisms living in the seas, hundreds millions of years they have developed to produce all the different kind animals and plants we knew today.

Michael Faraday was born at the end of the 17th century. He was interested in electricity very much and spent long months studying this strange force. He discovered that electricity passed from the magnet to the wires and cow bell become a strong electric current. So he opened many laws of electricity and magnetism.

Lord Rutherford the great pioneer of nuclear physics received the Nobel Prize in 1908 for his investigations into decay of elements chemistry of radiated substances.

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1929.

Vocabulary:

outstanding - знаменитый

science - наука

contribution - вклад

explorer - исследователь

gravitation - гравитация

conclusion - заключение

force - сила

current - ток

nuclear - ядерный

substance - вещество

Задание 1. Составьте предложения.

Isaac Newton Charles Darwin Michael Faraday Alexander Fleming

discovered created opened

penicillin in 1929. many laws of electricity and magnetism. the law of motion and the universal law of gravitation. a new theory of evolution.

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He first went to school at the age of eight and a half. But after only three months his teacher called him "stupid" and he came home crying. From that time his mother taught him at home and he read science books by himself. He got a job sending telegraph messages.

Then he started inventing things. At the age of 12 he had a job selling newspapers. He made money in a clever but simple way. He checked the news stories first. When the news was interesting he took a lot of papers; when it was boring he took only few.

In 1877 he made a "phonograph" — the first ever sound recorder. The following year he invented the light bulb. In 1882 New York was the first city in the world with electric lights. In 1889 he made a "kinetoscope". He also made films for his new machine. In 1903 he made the world's longest film (It was ten minutes long!) After more than one thousand inventions, Edison died at the age of eighty-four. In his honour they switched off the lights all over America.

Vocabulary:

to check — проверять

phonograph — фонограф

kinetoscope — кинескоп

to switch off — выключать

Задание 2. Подберите к каждому предложению из первой колонки подходящее окончание.

1. Thomas Edison was a) sending telegraph messages.

2. He first went to school at b) the age of eight and a half.

3. He got a job c) he invented the light bulb.

4. At the age of 12 he had d) the lights all over America.

5. The following year e) born in 1847.

6. In 1882 New York was the first city f) in the world with electric lights.