Стр.33 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс
George Stephenson is known as The Father of the Railways. When he was born in 1781, his father .was working in a coal mine.
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Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Вербицкая, Гаярделли, Редли 8 класс, Вентана-Граф:
George Stephenson is known as The Father of the Railways. When he was born in 1781, his father .was working in a coal mine. Like a lot of poor children at that time, George didn’t go to school and he started working at the age of eight. While he was working, he went to evening classes and as a teenager he learnt to read and write.
He was very good at making machines and mending things, and after several years he became the coal mine’s main engineer. While he was working for the coal mine, he became interested in engines and developed his ideas for his famous train engine.
Finally, he left the coal mine and started working for himself.
Next, in the 1820s, he designed and built the very successful Stephenson’s Rocket, a steam engine to pull trains. Then he built the first public railways. Unfortunately, the day Stephenson opened his second public railway in 1830, the Rocket hit and killed a member of the government. However, until then the fastest transport was a horse, so railways quickly became popular. There are now railways everywhere: the invention of a clever, hard-working but poor, uneducated coal miner changed the world.
1 Use a new paragraph for each main idea.
2 Start by saying why the person is famous.
3 Use the Past Continuous to explain the background.
4 Use adjectives to make your writing more interesting and to ‘paint a picture’ for the reader.
5 Use linking words to explain the relationship between the pieces of information.
6 End with a sentence which sums up the main ideas of the text.
WRITING
29 Read the text. Is it about:
a the history of travel?
b a great engineer?
c British transport?
30 Find and underline:
1 a sentence that explains the background (paragraph 2)
2 two adjectives that describe George Stephenson (paragraph 3)
3 two linking words (paragraph 3)
31 Read the notes about Marie Sklodowska Curie. Add anything else you know.
Marie Sklodowska Curie (chemist): born Poland 1867
Father – teacher
Mother and sister died when she was a child
Worked very hard – sometimes forgot to eat or sleep
Age 24 went to France to study
Met Pierre Curie and they got married
Discovered the chemical elements polonium (Po) (named after Poland) and radium (Ra)
Won lots of international prizes – including 1903
Nobel prize for Physics (shared with Pierre) and 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
32 Use the notes and your own ideas to write about her life.