Unit 3. People's background

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931), American inventor, whose development of a practical electric light bulb, electric generating system, sound-recording device, and film projector had profound effects on the shaping of modern society.
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time.
Curie, Pierre (1859-1906), French physicist and Nobel laureate, best known for his work on radioactivity with his wife, Marie Curie
Curie, Marie, née Maria Sklodowska (1867-1934), French physicist and twice Nobel laureate, best known for her work on radioactivity, with her husband Pierre
* What you know about Marie Curie (at least 3 things)
*what you want to about Marie Curie
* Task 1: Match the words or phrases in A with their meanings in B
1. c
2. e
3. a
4. d
5. b
1. T (She received general education in local school).
Task 2: T/F statements
2. F (Marie harboured the dream of a scientific career…)
3. T (She earned a degree in physics with flying Mathematics)
4. F …and a year later they got married (in 1895)
5. T (She was the first woman in France to be a university professor)
*Work in pairs
Make notes in the boxes about what happened in these important years.
Read the text quickly and choose the best answer.
The text is mostly about Marie Currie’s:
Relationships
Life and career
Contribution to the world
Task 3: Answering
Marie Curie was bien in Warsaw on Nov 7th, 1867.
She was a brilliant and mature student.
She worked as a private tutor to say money for astudy tour abroad.
She was awarded a Nobel Price in Chemistry for determining the atomic weight of radium.
No, it wasn’t. Her real roy was “easing human suffering”.