II. Listen to the text and say whether the following statements are true or false
1. Charles Darwin was born into a family with low income and education.
2. Charles Darwin went to school in his hometown.
3. Charles Darwin graduated from a university with a degree in medicine.
4. Charles Darwin decided to participate in a round-the-world expedition on the Beagle because he wanted to earn some money.
5. At that time scientists believed that all living things on the earth had been created and destroyed several times.
6. It was on the Galapagos Islands that Darwin first started thinking of possible links between different species.
7. Darwin developed and published his theory of evolution by natural selection two years after he had returned from his voyage on the Beagle.
8. Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the most ardent opponents of Darwin’s theory.
9. Because of criticism, Darwin’s work ‘On the Origin of Species’ was unsuccessful and did not sell well.
10. Recognition came to Charles Darwin only after his death.
III. Fill in the table below with the events from Charles Darwin’s biography
1809
| Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shorpshire, England
| SPEAKING
Prepare a report about life of Charles Darwin and his contribution into science
Lesson 3
GENETICS
PRE-READING TASKS
I. Answer the following questions
· Can you define the term ‘genetics’?
· Why do you think genetics is one of the youngest branches of the science of life?
· Why do some people call genetics ‘a science of the future’?
II. Listen to the following words and practice their pronunciation
Alkaptonuria, amniocentesis, animal husbandry, artificial insemination, autosomal, chromosomal variation, colchicine, crossbreeding, cystinuria, cytogenetics, dominant, enzyme deficiency, experimental breeding, galactosemia, gene distribution, gout, molecular genetics, pharmaceutical industry, phenylketonuria, polygenic, recessive, strain, X-chromosome, yeast.
READING COMPREHENSION AND VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
Читайте також: - A. Read the text and decide if the following statements are true or false.
- Answer the following questions
- Answer the following questions.
- Are these true or false? Correct the false ones.
- Arrange the following units into two lexical and two terminological sets. I Give them corresponding names.
- Ask your friend the following questions, present the results to the whole group.
- B. Listen to part of a radio interview with a historian talking about Einstein. Then complete each sentence with a word or a short phrase. (Track 17, CD2)
- Choose any newspaper and complete the following sentences.
- Combine the following words into sentences.
- Complete the given statements from the text
- Consult a dictionary and write the following literary genres in phonetic transcription.
- Do the following crossword puzzle.
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