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THINK! Name five inventions from the last 100 years and five inventions from previous centuries. 1 Complete the gaps in the stories about discoveries 1-8 with the words in the box. Which sentence do you think is false?
2 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.
3 🔊1.32 Watch or listen to four people talking about inventions. Write down the inventions or discoveries they mention.
4 USE IT! Think of answers to questions 1-3. Then compare your ideas with a partner. Use the key phrases.1 What do you think is the best and the worst discovery or invention? 2 Which three discoveries or inventions are most useful for school? 3 What invention do we need in the future?
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Discovery stories
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.
