Nearly half the homes in the developing world were without light.

This
Calgary engineer wanted to change that. Irvine Halliday worked
endlessly for months to invent an efficient energy source for powering a
light.

Using your own words as far as possible, write a summary to show the
difficulties Irvine-Halliday faced and the ways he overcame these
difficulties.

USE ONLY MATERIAL FROM LINES 35 to LINES 80.

Your summary, which must be in continuous writing (not in note form),

must not be longer than 160 words, including the 4 words given below.

Begin your summary as follows:

Irvine-Halliday concentrated on ……
Pt Lifted from Text Own Word
1 and his attempts to bunch He failed to create a
a few together to create a strong light source
light someone could read
by failed miserably given
their limited strength.
(lines 38-39)
2 He moved on to coming He tried to design a more
up with an energy source powerful source of light/
to power a light. (line 40) different source?
3 But to do so would cost It would need/require
money. (line 40-41) funding/financial help
4 ….the couple decided to They decided to use their
finance the equipment …. own
with their savings and savings/money/reserves
three credit cards, ……
(lines 43 – 45)
5 For hours on evenings He spent a lot of his free
and weekends over the time to carry out tests
next several months,Irvine-
Halliday experimented.
(Line 47 – 48)

6 He ruled out alkaline and He experimented with

dry-cell batteries. (line 48) different types of sources

7 And he carefully But all in

considered wind and solar vain/unsuccessful/
power, but ruled both out unacceptable?
as unfeasible and overly
expensive
(lines 49-50)
8 One day nearly two years For two years
after his Nepal trip, Irvine- /persistently/ without
Halliday sat at his giving up (adverb of
Finally after researching from the internet (9) persistently for two years
(8), he found the new diodes from a Japanese company (10) and
quickly made an order (11). Hoping it would work well this time (12),
they quickly tested it out upon arrival (13). They used a piece of paper
to test the brightness of the light (14). It emitted bright light/lit up
successfully this time (15).

He was further challenged with providing a cheaper source of energy

(17) for the light because it would take more than one diode to light up a
bigger area (16). Therefore, he had to think of an alternative power
source (18) which was more functional (19). He began to work on
building a pedal generator (20) which could serve other purposes
too(21). He finally created a practical lamp after many experiments (22).

(171 words)