Unit 11 Science and Technology Lesson 7 Looking Back Project
Unit 11 Science and Technology Lesson 7 Looking Back Project
Transport
Engineering Transport
Farming energy
Thomas Edison was one of the greatest inventors of the world. He was
inventions
responsible for more than one thousand (1)… …………including the
electric light bulb and the record player.He also created the world’s first
laboratory
industrial research (2)……………
Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio, USA. When he was 10 years old, he set
science
up a small laboratory after he had read a (3) …………. book his mother
showed him. In 1869, he borrowed some money and began to make
inventions.
In 1876 he built a new laboratory so that he could spend all his time (4) .
inventing
…………..He planned to turn out minor inventions every ten days and
a ‘big trick’ every six months. He developed many devices that brought
benefits
great (5)……………. to people’s life. He once said that the value of an
idea lay in the using of it. Edison died in 1931, after having a
productive
remarkably (6) …………….life.
Grammar
4.Change the sentences into reported speech.
1.“They are doing an experiment.”
they were doing an experiment.
He said that…………………………… .
2.“You have to sign the paper again.”
I had to sign the paper again.
She told me that…………………………… .
3.“We watched a television documentary on the future of nuclear power.”
they had watched a television documentary
Tam said……………………………….. . on the future of
nuclear power
4.“The 10 o'clock flight to KualaLumpur will be an hour late.”
the 10 o'clock flight to KualaLumpur
They announced that……………………………………… . would
be an hour late
5.“In 50 years' time we may be living on the moon.”
in 50 years' time we might be living on the moon.
Scientists said that ………………………………….
5.Rewrite these sentences in direct speech.
Example:
Louise told me that he had rung me the night before.
-> Louise: “I rang you last night.”
1.Kien said that he had missed the train.
Kien said, “I missed/ have missed the train.”
2.Duong said that he could run very fast.
Duong said, “I can run very fast.”
3.Mia told me that she would hand in the report the next day.
“I'll hand in the report tomorrow,” Mia told me.
4.She said that she was reading a science fiction book about life
on Venus.
She said, “I'm reading a science fiction book about life on Venus.”
5.He told me he would be a lawyer when he grew up.
“I'll be a lawyer when I grow up,” he told me.
III. Home work
-Learn by heart all the new words and complete all the
exercises in their notebooks.