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_5. garment e. to wash lightly with water
2. Find the word which does not correspond to the other
words in the line:
a. Laundry, clothes, soap, washer, fair
b. Fire, lye, ashes, pump, heat
c. County, include, corrugate, drape, outsell.
3. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box.
variety, steam, tub, temperature, option
a. The _____ of the water was enough to boil an egg.
b. Ivan has no ____but to leave New York for Moscow within a
week.
c. In the department store there is a great ____ of modern
clothes washers.
d. His speech is just a ____ of thoughts.
e. Alex an Susy bathe their baby in a big _____.
d. Decide if the statements are true or false. Correct the false
ones with the facts from the text.
a. In the early times people washed clothes in a stream, by
striking it with strokes or sticks.
b. Soap was first made in 1927 from a combination of lye and
ashes.
c. The wringer washer is the predecessor of the modern
automatic washing machine.
d. The first automatic washer debuted at a fair in 1937.
e. Modern washers have different functions from the selection
of cycles for any types of clothes to the changing of a
temperature level.
V. Discuss with your partner (or groupmates).
1. What new information about clothes washers have you
learnt?
2. Do you agree that an automatic washer was one of the
greatest inventions of the 20
th
century?
3. Think of the firms producing clothes washers and say what
is the best and why.
Text 3
Refrigerator
I.
First thoughts:
How do people manage to keep the products fresh?
How did they do it in the earliest times?
II. Study these words . Make sure you know them
method, food, invention, freezer, system, automatic, spring,
celler
III. Read the text and do the tasks following it.
The earliest method of refrigeration was the storage of food
in caves and cold springs. This method of storing food in cold
places slowly evolved, as people began keeping food in their
cellars, in their outdoor window boxes, in the snow, or
underwater in nearby lakes, streams or wells. The invention of
the icebox led to more efficient refrigeration. Ice was delivered
to houses by delivery men and was used in wooden iceboxes
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