Name five inventions from the last 100 years and five inventions from previous centuries.

(Kể tên 5 phát minh trong 100 năm qua và 5 phát minh từ các thế kỷ trước.)

1. Complete the gaps in the stories about discoveries 1-8 with the words in the box. Which sentence do you think is false?

(Hoàn thành những chỗ trống trong câu chuyện về những khám phá từ 1-8 bằng những từ trong khung. Theo bạn câu nào là sai?)

1

People invented the wheel more than 5,000 years ago. Recently, in a survey of the most important inventions of all time, people chose the wheel, the internet and _____.

2

Before Robert Watson- Watt designed a modern _____ system, people had more primitive methods for detecting an enemy.

3

John Pemberton was a pharmacist who hoped to cure _____ with a mixture of coca leaves and cola nuts. An assistant accidentally added water, creating a drink which later became Coca-Cola.

4

We have been exploring space since the 1960s. Nowadays, scientists are researching how we can adapt to _____ in space in the future.

5

In 1865, Jules Verne wrote From the Earth to the Moon. In this story, he imagined astronauts travelling from Florida to the moon in an aluminium _____. In 1969, that really happened.

6

People sometimes experiment with their own bodies. Professor Kevin Warwick implanted a _____ into his arm and into his wife’s arm. Now, when she feels something, he feels it too.

7

When researchers develop a new _____ they often use animals to test it, but they also pay people - ‘human guinea pigs’. These people stay in comfortable clinics and receive good care while they do this risky job.

8

Scientists identify approximately 18,000 new _____ every year. In 2015, they discovered this beautiful sea creature near Japan. They also found the fossil of a unicorn, which has become extinct.

 STUDY STRATEGY (Chiến lược học tập)

Learning new words in families (Học từ mới theo các họ từ)

When you learn a new word, study other words in the same family in your dictionary. Learning words in families makes them more memorable and helps you learn a lot of words quickly.

(Khi bạn học một từ mới, hãy nghiên cứu những từ khác cùng họ trong từ điển của bạn. Học từ theo gốc khiến chúng dễ nhớ hơn và giúp bạn học được nhiều từ một cách nhanh chóng.)

Study the words in blue in the stories about discoveries. Copy and complete the table with the base form of each verb and a noun for each of the verbs.

(Nghiên cứu những từ màu xanh lam trong những câu chuyện về khám phá. Sao chép và hoàn thành bảng với dạng cơ bản của mỗi động từ và một danh từ cho mỗi động từ.)