选修八Unit3reading阅读课件

4. ___ is called “ Father of Dynamite （炸药）”. A. Alfred Nobel B. Albert Einstein C. Alexander Bell
What is he famous for?
Issac New ton
艾萨克·牛顿
discovered gravity
to different places in the world. • It is powered by an engine and is
flown by a pilot.
Airplane
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• It allows you to get a likeness of an
object. Camera
• When you press the button, it works. When a flash happens, it will copy a scene onto a film.
• When the film is developed, the scene you copied appears on a paper-like thing.
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• This invention can help people do some daily work.
A discovery is merely making known something that already _ex_i_s_ts_ in nature.
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Please look at the following pictures and decide which are discoveries and which are inventions
Unit 3 Inventors and inventions
Warming up
When we speak of inventions, we can’t help thinking of the four great inventions in ancient China. Can you name them?
ABiblioteka Baiduquiz
How much do you know the inventors and inventions?
1. Paper, printing, gunpowder and ___ are 4 great inventions in ancient China.
abacus
balance compass
(1847——1931)
Electric bulb
Alexander Graham Bell Telephone
England (1847--1922)
Ford
Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the airplane, which they patented as a “flying machine”.
mobile phone
2 v It’s always equipped in high
buildings;
v It looks like a small room; v People can go up and down in it
instead of climbing steps .
lift /elevator
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2
4
8
1 5
7
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• It is a tool of communication;
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• It is convenient to take along with you;
• You can hear a person’s voice when
using it.
• You can call up sb now and then;
2. ___ isn’t Thomas Edison’s invention.
Light bulb
Telephone
Record player
3. _____ is called “Father of Car”. A. Rudolf Diesel B. Karl Benz C. Thomas Edison
What is she famous for?
Madame Curie
玛丽亚·斯克沃多夫斯卡-居里
discovered radium
What is he famous for? Ben Franklin
discovered
Lightning is electricity
An invention is something that is _cr_e_a_te_d_ by a human being.
An amphibious car
It’s _a_n_i_n_v_e_n_tion.
It’s _a_d_i_s_c_o_v_ery.
Columbia
1493,3,15
the New Continent
Stephenson’s “Rocket”
an invention.
DNA a discovery.
compass printing gunpowder paper-making
How many famous inventors do you know?
What did they invent?
Seismograph
Zhang Heng (78—139)
Thomas Edison America
• It is black.
• People can use it to make bombs.
gunpowder
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• This invention is made of metal. • This invention looks like a bird. • It makes it possible for people to fly
• It is a kind of make-up invented by French.
• It smells good.
• Women especially like to use it.
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perfume
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It is one of the four great inventions in ancient china.