Unit 5: Science

READING - BRITISH SCIENTISTS

1.- Read the texts (I – III) and match them with the scientists in the pictures below. (6 pts.)



                            Adapted from: The World Book Encyclopedia, Volumes 1, 2 and 9.
Alexander Fleming
I.     II.     III.
Isaac Newton
I.     II.     III.
Charles Darwin
I.     II.     III.


2.- Read the texts and decide if these statements are true or false. (10 pts.)

    a. Charles Darwin discovered the antibiotic, penicillin. True False
    b. Isaac Newton was a mathematician and scientist. True False
    c. Charles Darwin wrote a famous book. True False
    d. Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize for his work. True False
    e. Newton invented a special type of telescope. True False



LISTENING - THE CREATURE FROM LOCH NESS

3.- Listen to the recording and mark with a tick the speakers who say these statements. (10 pts.)

   
  Speaker 1,
IAN		 Speaker 2,
RONALD		 NEITHER
a. It was a large, black creature, like a whale.
b. I’ve fished in this Loch here nearly all my life, for salmon.
c. My brother stopped the car, and we all saw this huge commotion right in the     centre of the Loch.
d. I got really scared - it was huge and brown and came out of the water
    looking at us.
e. So I called my friend Willie Frazer, who incidentally had had a sighting of a     creature on the Loch almost a year ago.


4.- Listen again and indicate the position of each speaker at the time of the sighting. (6 pts.)

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LANGUAGE

5.- Which of the introductions (a. – d.) should go with each sentence (i. – iv)? Type the corresponding letter in the spaces provided.
     (6 pts.)

    a. Carlos begged: i. I'll carry the suitcase.
    b. Her father advised: ii. Would you like to have dinner?
    c. Jane invited: iii. Please, please let me stay up!
    d. Mark offered: iv. You shouldn't smoke too much.



WRITING

6.- Write a scientific article about cloning an extinct animal. Print your work. Ask your teacher to check and mark it. (10 pts.)
SPEAKING

7.- Listen to the conversation and practise it with a partner.
      Remember that this is a practice activity. It doesn’t get a mark.

   

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