NOTES TO THE TEXT

¹ landmine - мина, фугас

² went bankrupt - обанкротился ³ interest – зд, процент

с) Read the text again and divide it into four parts. Give titles to these parts choosing the most suitable from the list below:

1 The childhood and youth of Alfred Nobel

2. The career of Alfred Nobel's father.

3. The contrasts in the life of Alfred Nobel.

4. The life ideals of Alfred Nobel

5 Alfred Nobel as a scientist.

6. Alfred Nobel's will.

7. Nobel prize winners

d) Find in the text passages about Alfred Nobel's ties with Russia, his will and translate them into Russian. *

e) Read aloud the passage about Alfred Nobel's will. (Approximate time of reading is 1,4 minutes.)

f) Form sentences connecting word groups on the left and on the right with butand making the necessary changes. You will see that Nobel's life was really full of contrasts.

E.g. to be a millionaire | but | to live a simple life

He was a millionaire but lived a simple life.

to be an industrialist

lo be cheerful in company

to love all mankind

to be a patriot of his native country

to invent dynamite to improve

peacetime industries

to be world-famous for his works

to be a Swede

never to study at school or

BUT

University

to be a man of imagination

to remain an idealist

to be sad in private

not to have a wife or a family to

love him

to die alone in a foreign land

to see it used as a weapon to kill people

to be never personally well-

known, to avoid publicity

lo live for more than 20 years in Russia

to be a skilful chemist and an

excellent linguist

to show great business and financial sense

g) Find in the text keywords you can use to speak about the Nobel prize.

<== попередня сторінка	\|	наступна сторінка ==>
B) Read the test and find out if you were right or not.	\|	A) Skim the text to understand what it is about. Time your reading. It is good if you can read it for four minutes (80 words per minute).

Не знайшли потрібну інформацію? Скористайтесь пошуком google:

Генерація сторінки за: 0.003 сек.