Unit 3- reading- E10 Nhung anh

Edison, Thomas Alva 1847-1931, American inventor, whose development of a practical electric light bulb, electric generating system, sound-recording device, and film projector had profo

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931), American inventor, whose development of a practical electric light bulb, electric

generating system, sound-recording device, and film

projector had profound effects on the shaping of modern

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, one of

the foremost scientific intellects of all time

Curie, Pierre (1859-1906), French physicist and Nobel laureate,

best known for his work on radioactivity with his wife, Marie Curie

Curie, Marie, née Maria Sklodowska (1867-1934), French physicist

and twice Nobel laureate, best known for her work on radioactivity, with her husband Pierre

* What you know about Marie Curie (at least 3 things)

*what you want to about Marie Curie

* Task 1: Match the words or phrases in A with their meanings in B

1 T ( She received general education in local

school).

Task 2: T/F statements

2 F (Marie harboured the dream of a scientific career…)

3 T (She earned a degree in physics with flying Mathematics )

4 F …and a year later they got married (in 1895)

5 T (She was the first woman in France to be a university professor)

1867 1891 1894

*Work in pairs

Make notes in the boxes about what happened in these important years

born in

Warsaw

1891 Went to Paris

1894 met Pierre Curie

1903

became 1 st

woman to be

a PhD

1906 took up the position

at the Sorbornne

1914

founded t he Radium Institute

Read the text quickly and choose the best answer.

The text is mostly about Marie Currie’s:

a Relationships

b Life and career

c Contribution to the world

Task 3: Answering

astudy tour abroad

determining the atomic weight of radium

suffering”