BRITISH SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS

LET'S GET TO WORK!

Look at these portraits. Do you know anything about the invention of these scientists?

Warming up

Isaak Newton, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Charles Babbage

GRAMMAR

MUCH - MANY - LITTLE - FEW - A LOT OF

Употребление much, many, a lot of, few, little

NOTE. В утвердительных предложениях с неисчисляемыми существительными предпочтительно использовать a lot of.

PRACTICE

25.1. Put much, many, little, few, a few, a lot of where necessary.

This doctor works _ every day. The nurses sometimes are

very busy, having too ... patients. Rosa had__sugar in her tea,

so she asked for more. His brother has had__time, so they have

not spent_time together today. Give her_apples to treat

the boys. There were_people in the chemist's, so I bought him

medicine very quickly.

25.2. Use much or many in the questions:

1. How_days?

2. How__sugar?

3. How__books?

4. How__fun?

5. How__petrol?

6. How__children?

7. How__theatres?

8. How__juice?

25.3. Put little or few:

Salt, sugar, friends, rooms, meat, time, coffee, houses, animals.

25.4. Put many, much:

Houses, sand, danger, furniture, fruit, bananas, girls.

25.5. Complete the following sentences with much, many, a lot of:

1. There are__children in the park. 2. There aren't

__restaurants in our town. 3. She hasn't got__

homework for today. 4. How__English books have you got?

5. How__money is there in your wallet (кошелек)? 6. How

__CDs have you got? 7. There isn't__pollution

in Sweden. 8. There isn't__noise in my granny's country.

READING

Useful Vocabulary

Study the following words and word combinations:

1) driving force - движущая сила;

2) immense contribution - существенный вклад;

3) the most influential scientists - самые влиятельные ученые;

4) universal gravitation - земное притяжение;