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U N IT 7
SC IEN C E A N D TEC H N O LO G Y

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LESSON 6 Project
1 W o rk in p a irs. W rite th e s e n te n ce s.
M irro rs
M ake s e n te n c e s w ith th e v e rb s ‘ be, use, have, in v e n t’ .
1) Turkey 8,000 ago/people/stone mirrors
2) There/metal mirrors/China 4,000 years ago
3) 1835/Justus von Liebig, a German chemist/the modern mirror
4) Modern glass m irrors/silver/the back
Tin-cans
M ake s e n te n c e s w ith th e v e rb s ‘ be, in ve n t, m ake, p ro d u c e ’ .
1) Peter Durand/England/first metal cans/1796
2) Forty years later/someone/the first can-opener
3) Now/square cans/for easy transportation
4) Every year/twenty billion cans/Britain
The p o s t-it n o te
M ake s e n te n c e s w ith th e v e rb s ‘ be, do , in ve n t, se ll, u s e ’ .
1) America/the post-it note/1970
2) Usually/an office worker/eleven post-it notes/every day
3) Now/600 different post-it note products
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) In 2000/artist/a drawing on a post-it note/and/for $1000
2 W o rk in g ro u p s o f 4 /5 . M ake a p re s e n ta tio n
‘ The m o st im p o rta n t/u s e fu l in v e n tio n ’ .
Unit 7 • Lesson 3
2 a W ork in pairs. Pupil A: lo ok a t th is page. 
A sk and a n sw e r. C o m p le te th e te x ts .
Mirzo Ulugbek was a sta­
tesman, scientist, great as­
tronom er and mathemati­
cian, and a grandson of the 
famous ruler Amir Temur. 
He was born in (1)... (When). 
In 1409, Ulugbek be­
came the ruler of (2) ... 
(What/Where). 
During 
this period, the city was 
one of the world 
I centres of science 
lof the Middle Ages. 
There was a (3) ... (What kind) school, 
great astronomers and mathematicians.
There was built a madrasah, which was the 
beginning of the architectural building of the 
(4) ... (What). Since young ages Ulugbek 
was interested in astronomy. Later he built a 
special building for its time, the famous (5) ... 
(What). In 1437, Ulugbek created the (6) ... 
(What), where 1018 stars were described. In 
(7) ... (When), after thirty years of astronomical 
observations, the great astronomer created 
his scientific work - “Ziji Kuragoniy” .
Nowadays, Ulugbek’s scientific work is 
studied in universities around the world. The 
great scientist made very important (8) ... 
(What) in science.