VOCABULARY

MEDICAL SCIENCE

1 Choose the best word in bold. Use your dictionary.

1 Science / Medicine is the study and trial / treatment of illnesses.

2 Teeth / Skin and bones / the heart are hard parts of the body.

3 A scientist / doctor usually works in a laboratory / waiting room.

4 A scientist uses tools / equipment to do examinations experiments.

READING

1 Complete the table with information from the article.

Medical inventions
Date Country Other information
scalpel didn´t change for
_________ years.
Acupuncture Still popular in
needles ___________ and
other countries.
Didn´t change until
__________
Holland People didn´t want
to look at _______
things then.
MEDICAL INVENTIONS

1 The scalpel is one of the oldest inventions in medicine. It is a small, light and very
sharp knife. People used it for the first time around 3000 BC in the area of modern
Iraq. The scalpel did not change very much for 4,000 years.

2 The Chinese invented acupuncture needles around 2000 BC. At first, they did not
make needles from metal, but from stone. Today, people in China and other
countries use acupuncture for many illnesses.

3 People in southern Italy invented the first false teeth in about 700 BC. They used
pieces of bone, or sometimes second-hand human teeth. After that, false teeth did
not change for the next 2,500 years until, in 1770, a Frenchman called Alexis
Duchateau first used porcelain – a hard, white material that we still sometimes use
today.

4 Zacharias Jansen from Holland made the first microscope in about 1590.
Through it, objects appeared nine times bigger than their real size, but it did not
give a very clear picture. Jansen did not use his invention very much because
people at that time did not want to look at small things!

GRAMMAR REVIEW

Put the words in the correct order to make questions, then answer the
questions.

1 Thomas Edison / TV / invent / Did?

2 make / Europeans / / the first paper / Did?

3 did / invent / Wilhelm Rontgen What?

4 the Americans / When / on the Moon / did / land/?

5 Where / first arrive / did / in America / Christopher Columbus/ ?

WRITING

Look at the information about Alfred Nobel and Levi Strauss. Write a short text
about each person.

ALFRED NOBEL

 born 1833, Sweden

 (study) chemistry
 (write) poetry, novels, plays
 (try) to make safe explosive
 (kill) brother in an experiment 1864
 (invent) dynamite 1866
 (start) Nobel Prize Foundation 1895

LEVI STRAUSS

 born 1829, Germany

 (travel) New York 1846
 (move) San Francisco 1853
 (start) shop for gold miners
 (sell) equipment and clothes
 (invent) jeans 1873
 (use) material from Nimes, France
 (call) material ´denim´
SPEAKING

Talk about your first experience. Choose the topic from the box below.

Travel alone go abroad eat foreign food cook a meal play a sport
move to a new house organize a party fly vote

e.g. I first travelled alone when I was eighteen. I went to Cartagena. I travelled by
plane. I travelled with my family. I liked it a lot. I enjoyed the trip.

NOTE: THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE GRADED NEXT SESSION 19TH May 2020.