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Unit 10 Modern-day inventors THIRD EDITION

Before watching
1 Discuss these questions with a partner.
1 Which of the following (a–d) would you most like to invent? Why?
a  a time machine   b  a way to control the weather   c  a cheap new biofuel    d  a medicine to cure malaria
2 Put the inventions (a–d) in order of importance (1 = most important) and explain your reasons.
2 Complete the sentences with words from the box.
filter  access  evaporates  hammer  container  sterile

1 When you boil water, it _______ and changes into a gas. 4 Do you have a _______? I need to put this nail in the wall.
2 I need a _______ to put my water in for the camping trip. 5 It’s important for our drinking water to be _______.
3 The water is cleaned with a _______. 6 If you can’t _______ electricity, then it is not available to you.

While watching
3   Watch the video. Complete the information below.

Emily Cummins Michael Pritchard

1 Emily invented a new type of __________. 4 Michael invented the __________.
2 It doesn’t need __________. 5 It uses a special __________.
3 Anyone can make it with __________ tools. 6 It __________ people’s lives.

4   Watch Emily Cummins. Are the sentences true (✓) or false (✗)? Correct the false sentences.
1 When she was 9, Emily’s grandad gave her a hammer.
2 She realized people in Africa couldn’t store food because they didn’t have access to water.
3 The design was very complicated.
4 You put something that stays dry between the two cylinders of the refrigerator.
5 When she was 18, Emily traveled to Africa on her own.

5   Watch Michael Pritchard. Underline the correct options.

1 Over 500 million / a billion people don’t have easy access to clean water.
2 It is cheap and easy / expensive and difficult to send clean bottles of water to disaster areas.
3 The Lifesaver bottle uses a special filter / cylinder to clean the water.
4 The Lifesaver jerrycan can process up to 2,000 / 20,000 liters of water.
5 Michael does a couple of / many projects around the world to help people get access to clean water.

After watching
Work with a partner. Discuss these questions.
1 Which invention from the video did you like best? Why?
2 What do you think are the greatest difficulties for a new inventor?

research
Choose an invention that has made life better. Find out more information on the Internet about this invention.
Prepare a short presentation about the invention, explaining how it has made life better. Present it to your class.

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