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1. Edison liked to _______________ things.

2. Edison worked in his _______________ day and night.

3. When you take a short sleep, it is a _______________.

4. A place where you hang your clothes is a _______________.

5. Edison paid chemists and mechanics to work for him. He _______________ them.

6. When the lamp in your house does not work, you may need to change the _______________.

II. Choose right answer.

1. When Edison was a boy, he ______.

a. made a lot of money

b. built a laboratory in his house

c. invented motion pictures

2. In his laboratory at Menlo Park, Edison ______.

a. worked day and night

b. slept most of the time

c. did not work

3. Edison invented ______.

a. only a record player

b. his name

c. more than 1,300 things

III. Number the sentences 1 through 7 to show the correct order.

_____ He died in 1931, at the age of eighty-four.

_____ With this money he started to invent.

_____ Edison was ten when he read his first science book.

_____ In 1876, he invented the phonograph.

_____ After that, he built a laboratory in his house.

_____ When he was twenty-three, he made a lot of money.

_____ He started his own laboratory at Menlo Park.

IV. Complete the sentences with the Past Tense forms of the verbs in brackets.

EXAMPLE: Edison started his own laboratory in Menlo Park (start).

1. Edison __________ the light bulb (invent).

2. When he was twenty-three, he __________ a special machine (make).

3. He __________ this invention for a lot of money (sell).

4. Edison __________ chemists to help him (hire).

5. Edison __________day and night (work).

6. He often __________ naps (take).

SPEAKING PRACTICE

On/offline activity

I. Work in groups

1. What other famous inventors or scientists do you know?

2. Look at the pictures. Do you know these people?

II. Divide into groups of 3 or 4 people and find the information from the Internet about other famous inventors, constructors, engineers ( for example, about Alexander Bell, Alexander Popov, Mikhail Kalashnikov, etc.) and present the information on:

1) the name of the inventor;

2) the country this invention was made in;

3) what the thing was made for;

4) how it is used now;

5) how it influenced our life.

Recommended resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288456,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalashnikov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

Work in groups of three or four.

I. Ask each other these questions:

What do you usually do on Sundays? What did you do last Sunday?

... on Saturday evenings? ... last Saturday evening?

... on Mondays? ... last Monday?

II. Retell your other groupmates about what your partner usually does and did.

Homework

Do grammar test and be ready for revision test.

Describe the last English lesson. (What did you do at the lesson?). Give your opinion: what you liked and didn’t like. Why?