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4. Read the text and find answers to the questions below:
1. Why did Birdseye's first company go bankrupt?
2. Who discovered that aspirin is a painkiller?
3. Why did Armstrong kill himself?
4. What is the biggest problem of successful inventions?
5. Why do you think many inventors are not good businessmen?
Writing
5. Write a short story of an invention.
UNIT XXX
Where have I heard this name before?
Before you start
1. What are these things? What have the words got in common?
Match these names with the things:
А vacuum cleaner, а hat, а ball-point pen, jeans, books printed for the
blind, a thing to execute capital punishment, а kind of bath.
Reading
2. Put these standard international (SI) units into the correct column:
amp ■ Celsius ■ curie ■ hertz ■ joule ■ kelvin ■ newton ■ ohm ■
pascal ■ volt ■ watt
Chemistry (1) Electricity (6) Physics (2) Temperature(2)
3. Now complete the definitions (1-11) below with the units from
Exercise 2 and the people in the box:
Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1836) ■ Anders Celsius (1701-1744)
■ Marie Curie (1867-1934) ■ Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) ■
James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) ■ Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) ■
George Simon Ohm (1787-1854) ■ Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ■
Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) ■ Count Alessandro Volta (1745-
1827) ■ James Watt (1736-1819)
1. A______ is a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square
meter. It's named after_________a French scientist.
2. A______is a unit of force. It's named after________an English
mathematician.
3. _________is the temperature scale that has The freezing point of
water as 0° С and the boiling point as 100° С The scale was
developed by a Swedish astronomer._________.
4. A_________is an amount of electric power. It is equal to one joule
per second. It's named after_________, a Scottish engineer and
inventor.
5. A_________is a unit of electric force. It's named after________.
an Italian physicist and pioneer in the study of electricity.
6. An_______ is a unit of electric current. It's named after
_________a French mathematician and physicist, a pioneer in
electrodynamics.
7. An_______is a unit of electrical resistance named after ______ a
German physicist.
8. A_______is a unit of energy named after _______a British
physicist.
9._________is the temperature scale that registers absolute zero (-
273.15) as 0°K. It's named after_________a British scientist.
10. A_________is a frequency equal to one cycle per second. It's
named after_________a German physicist.
11. A_________is a unit of radioactivity. It's named after_________
a Polish-born chemist who discovered radioactivity in several
elements.
Vocabulary
4. Read the definitions in Exercise 3 again. Find words that mean:
1. studies the elements and their compounds
2. studies the universe
Biro ['baIqrqu] ■ Braille ['breIl] ■ Guillotine ["gIlq'tJn] ■ Hoover
['hHvq] ■ Jacuzzi [Gq'kHzI]■ Levis ['lJvaIz] ■ Stetson['stetsqn ] 
4. Read the text and find answers to the questions below:                   James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) ■ Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) ■
1. Why did Birdseye's first company go bankrupt?                            George Simon Ohm (1787-1854) ■ Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ■
2. Who discovered that aspirin is a painkiller?                             Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) ■ Count Alessandro Volta (1745-
3. Why did Armstrong kill himself?                                                         1827) ■ James Watt (1736-1819)
4. What is the biggest problem of successful inventions?
5. Why do you think many inventors are not good businessmen?              1. A______ is a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square
Writing                                                                   meter. It's named after_________a French scientist.
5. Write a short story of an invention.                                   2. A______is a unit of force. It's named after________an English
                                                                          mathematician.
UNIT XXX                                                                  3. _________is the temperature scale that has The freezing point of
Where have I heard this name before?                                      water as 0° С and the boiling point as 100° С The scale was
Before you start                                                          developed by a Swedish astronomer._________.
1. What are these things? What have the words got in common?              4. A_________is an amount of electric power. It is equal to one joule
Match these names with the things:                                        per second. It's named after_________, a Scottish engineer and
                                                                          inventor.
Biro ['baIqrqu] ■ Braille ['breIl] ■ Guillotine ["gIlq'tJn] ■ Hoover
                                                                          5. A_________is a unit of electric force. It's named after________.
['hHvq] ■ Jacuzzi [Gq'kHzI]■ Levis ['lJvaIz] ■ Stetson['stetsqn ]
                                                                          an Italian physicist and pioneer in the study of electricity.
                                                                          6. An_______ is a unit of electric current. It's named after
А vacuum cleaner, а hat, а ball-point pen, jeans, books printed for the   _________a French mathematician and physicist, a pioneer in
blind, a thing to execute capital punishment, а kind of bath.             electrodynamics.
                                                                          7. An_______is a unit of electrical resistance named after ______ a
Reading                                                                   German physicist.
2. Put these standard international (SI) units into the correct column:   8. A_______is a unit of energy named after _______a British
                                                                          physicist.
 amp ■ Celsius ■ curie ■ hertz ■ joule ■ kelvin ■ newton ■ ohm ■          9._________is the temperature scale that registers absolute zero (-
                       pascal ■ volt ■ watt                               273.15) as 0°K. It's named after_________a British scientist.
                                                                          10. A_________is a frequency equal to one cycle per second. It's
 Chemistry (1)     Electricity (6)    Physics (2)    Temperature(2)       named after_________a German physicist.
                                                                          11. A_________is a unit of radioactivity. It's named after_________
                                                                          a Polish-born chemist who discovered radioactivity in several
                                                                          elements.

3. Now complete the definitions (1-11) below with the units from          Vocabulary
Exercise 2 and the people in the box:                                     4. Read the definitions in Exercise 3 again. Find words that mean:
                                                                               1. studies the elements and their compounds
  Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1836) ■ Anders Celsius (1701-1744)                  2. studies the universe
    ■ Marie Curie (1867-1934) ■ Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) ■

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