Monday, April 20, 2020

English Communication Skills 1: Scientific discoveries, principles, processes, and inventions

Hello!



How are you? Today, let's look at some important scientific discoveries, principles, processes, and inventions of the last 200 years. There are so many, so we'll look at some key ones! 


Activity

Look at the terms below. Can you match them to the right pictures on your Manaba page? Let's make the image at the top our first picture!

The first one has been done for you. 


tectonic plates     DNA   
general anesthesia     
Dolly     penicillin     
radioactivity     web server     the atom


a.  the atom   

Now do the rest of these - b through h - on Manaba! Are you ready? Let's go!
       
b.

c. 

d. 

e. 

f. 


g. 

h. 

I hope you find these interesting. Take care!

Images: Top - by JabberWok at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2639910/Dolly - by Toni Barros from São Paulo, Brasil - Hello, Dolly!, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5816342/Penicillin model - by Vaccinationist - Own work, based on PubChem, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55202505/CERN computer - by Coolcaesar at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=395096/DNA model - By Zephyris at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6285050/Tectonic plates - By USGS - http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/slabs.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=535201/Radioactivity model - by Inductiveload - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2858666/General anesthesia equipment - by no machine-readable author provided. Paunami assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=600832