Unit 5 inventions lesson 3 reading

Look at the pictures and tell what they are.


lotus

bird
2

1

WONDERFUL
NATURE
3

4

flowers

dolphin

5

tiger


Thrusday, December 24th, 2019

Period 42:

Lesson 3:

READING


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Activity
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or thetoleaves
what
they cannot
do?
pictures
do that
people can’t?
Birds can fly but

People have
invented
people
......
the aeroplane

A People
lotus leaf

does
havenot
get wet.
invented
It raincoat/
washes
the
water
away
umbrella
but people…

have
Dolphins can swimPeople
and stay
invented
underwater for a long
time
the submarine.
but people ...


Reading
Vocabulary
review
To invent => invention (n) => inventor (n) => inventive (a)
To observe => observation (n)
Underwater (adv)
To imitate
Numerous (a)

To cling/ clung/ clung


Activity 2
What is the most suitable title of the text?
a. Mother Nature
b. Imitating Nature
c. Greatest Inventions


Activity 3: Definition
Match the words with their meanings
1. inspire

a. cloth or material for
making clothing, curtain, etc.

2. fastener

b. give someone a desire to
do something well

3. fabric

c. thread or fibre with a
curved end

4. hook

d. special clothing for an

astronaut

5. loop

e. device used to close a
piece of clothing

6. spacesuit

f. thin thread or fibre in the
shape of a circle


inspiration /,ɪnspə’reɪʃn / (n)
inspire /ɪn’spaɪə(r)/(v)
inspirational /,ɪnspə’reɪʃənl  / (a)
hook-and-loop fastener (n.ph)  Velcro
/hʊk ənd lu:p ’fɑːsnə(r)/

fabric /‘fæbrɪk / (n)
spacesuit /’speɪssu:t/ (n)

/’velkrəʊ/


Activity 4: Give SHORT ANSWERS to the following questions

1. What are the inventions that imitate animals?
2. What are the inventions that imitate plants?
3. Why is the aeroplane considered one of the

greatest inventions in our history?
4. What can help scientists to learn about life
under the sea?
5. How can a glass window clean itself?
6. Find the words or phrases in the text that can
describe an aeroplane, a submarine, and
Velcro.


ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
1. What are the inventions that imitate animals?

 The aeroplane and the submarine.
2. What are the inventions that imitate plants?

 Velcro, the self-cleaning glass window and umbrella
fabric.
3. Why is the aeroplane considered one of the greatest
inventions in our history?

 Because it helps us travel long distances in the air
and encourages the development of tourism and trading.


ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
4. What can help scientists to learn about life under the
sea?

 Submarines.
5. How can a glass window clean itself?

 The material that makes up the glass window has the
ability to wash away dirt in the rain.


6. Find the words or phrases in the text that can
describe an aeroplane, a submarine, and Velcro.
An aeroplane

‘its wings and shape imitating
those of a bird’

A submarine

‘imitates a dolphin’s shape’

Velcro

‘hook-and-loop fastener’
‘two fabrics sticking together
thanks to the hooks on one
surface and the loops on the
other’


Activity 5
Which of the four inventions mentioned in the text is
the best imitation of nature? State your reasons.
the aeroplane
the submarine

INVENTIONS
imitating nature

the self-cleaning glass window
and umbrella fabric
Velcro