Exercise 16. Retell the text. a) as it is;. b) as if you were Mandini;. c) as if you were the Patent Officer.. Exercise 17. Read and retell the text by Jake Allsop about another invention.. Exercise 18. What do you think are the greatest inventions of the

↑

⇐ ПредыдущаяСтр 37 из 40Следующая ⇒

Exercise 16. Retell the text

a) as it is;

b) as if you were Mandini;

c) as if you were the Patent Officer.

Exercise 17. Read and retell the text by Jake Allsop about another invention.

I knew a man once who invented a trap for сatching elephants. He took his design to the Patent Office in a cardboard box, and proudly presented it to the Patent Officer.

“Please explain to me how it works,” said the Patent Officer.

The man opened the box and took out a sheet of paper, an empty bottle and a telescope.

“I don’t quite understand.”

“It’s very simple,” said the man. “You look through the wrong end of the telescope to make the elephant small, then you put the elephant into the bottle.”

“But how do you know that the elephant will stood still long enough for you to catch it?”

“This is the clever bit. You write 2 + 2 = 5 on the piece of paper, and the elephant will stop, because it is puzzled. That’s when you grab it!”

Exercise 18. What do you think are the greatest inventions of the world? What inventions of the 20th century do you know? Why are they important? What new inventions does the world need?

ADDITIONAL READING

A LETTER TO A GIRLFRIEND

face the greatest dangers anyone could imagine[ɪ'mæʤɪn] встретиться с величайшими опасностями, которые только можно себе представить

climb[klaɪm] взбираться, влезать, карабкаться, подниматься

with one’s bare[b𝖼ə] handsголыми руками

to mention['menʃən] упоминать postscript['pəustskrɪpt] постскриптум by the wayкстати, между прочим

One day a young man was writing a letter to his girlfriend who lived just a few miles away in a nearby town. Among other things, he was telling her how much he loved her and how wonderful she was. The more he wrote the more poetic he became. Finally, he said that in order to be with her he would suffer the greatest difficulties, he would face the greatest dangers anyone could imagine. In fact, to spend only one minute with her, he would climb the highest mountain in the world, he would swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest forest and with his bare hands fight against the wildest animals.

He finished the letter, signed his name and then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to mention something important. So, in a postscript below his name, he added: “By the way, I’ll come to see you on Wednesday – if it doesn’t rain.”

Questions:

1. Who was the young man writing a letter to?

2. Where did his girlfriend live?

3. What did the young man say he would do for her?

4. What did he remember after he signed his name?

5. Do you believe that he really loved the girl very much?

Познавательные статьи:



Коммуникативные барьеры и пути их преодоления

Рынок недвижимости. Сущность недвижимости

Решение задач с использованием генеалогического метода

История происхождения и развития детской игры