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Block II. Video. Block III: Project work
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Block II. Video
Task 1. Watch the video http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=VRKPNyZsSW0 and fill in the blanks:
Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowska on the 7th November 1867. She is most famous for the discovery of the radioactive elements polonium and radium.
Marie Curie wasn’t always a famous scientist. First, she was a little girl born in Hungary. Her family had five children and her parents were both teachers. 1)…………………………... Marie had a very loving family, but they weren’t always happy. Her mother died from cancer when Marie was ten.
It was against the law for girls to go to the university at that time. 2)………………………….. Marie and her sister agreed to help each other go to the university. Marie’s elder sister, Bronia, became a teacher. Marie worked as a governess to pay for her sister’s studying. Later, Marie went to London in 1891 to study at the Sorbonne. 4)…………………………...
In 1895 Marie married 5)………………………….., and together they began working on radiation experiments with uranium. In 1898 the Curies discovered polonium and radium. Marie named polonium after her favourite game polo. In 1903 they shared the 6)………………………….. Prize for physics with Henri Becquerel. When Pierre was killed in an accident in 1906, Marie took over his post as a professor at the Sorbonne, becoming the first woman to teach there. 7)…………………………..
During the First World War Marie realized that the X-rays could help doctors see the bullets embedded in the soldiers’ bodies and remove them, as well as locate broken bones. Many hospitals in France already had X-ray equipment, but those machines were often far from the battlefield. Her X-ray machines were mobile and could go on trucks. She set up about 200 radiological units during the war.
8)………………………….. Together with her daughter Marie set up a training program at the Radium Institute to teach doctors to operate the X-ray equipment. Her work helped a lot to detect such serious diseases as cancer and tuberculosis. Marie Curie died on the 4th of July 9)………………………….. from leukemia as a result of her exposure to radiation during her research. She was the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Pantheon in Paris.
Marie had two daughters, one of whom, Irè ne, went on to win the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935. The element curium, discovered in 1944, is named after the Curie family. Marie Curie is the example of a great mind, not only because of her scientific 10)………………………….. in a male dominated field, but also because of her ability to combine the research efforts with the needs of motherhood and the ability to continue working after the tragic loss of her husband. She will never be forgotten. 11)…………………………..
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Task 2. Answer the questions:
1) How many factual mistakes have you found in the text? Correct them.
2) How many Master's degrees did Marie Curie take? What were they?
3) When did she concentrate her time on investigating the medical application of radioactive materials?
4) When was Marie Curie awarded a second Nobel (for chemistry) for her work on radium and its compounds?
5) What helped advance the medical science and save thousands of lives?
Block III: Project work
Choose one of the past or recent inventions or create your own and shoot a 5-minute film about it presenting the following information:
- Its name
- Its purpose
- The way it works
- The time of its creation
- The team of scientists that created it
- Its value in the 21st century
- If it is available for masses
Resources
https: //opinionfront. com
https: //busyteacher. org
http: //www. bookaid. org/our-work/where-we-work/
https: //breakingnewsenglish. com/
https: //www. ted. com/
https: //www. buzzle. com/
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