Lesson Text: The 12 principles by which Emir Temur was guided. The aim of the lesson: Educational

PERSONAL AMBITION IN SCIENCE 
Exercise 2. Match the definitions and the words/phrasesin the box. 
to replace; controversial; alternative;expense; gravity; in flesh; to own;ambition; 
a. the force which attracts things towards each otheror a strength which makes objects fall to the 
ground; _ 
b. causing disagreement or discussion; 
c. a strong wish or intend to achieve something or tobe a success, rich etc.; 
d. to take something and put another one instead ofprevious one; to change one object for 
another; 
e. to belong to someone or something; 
f. money that you spent for your job; 
g. in real life, not in the picture, TV or on thenewspaper;______________ 
 
Exercise 3. Read the text and fill in the blanks with the words or phrases from the box. 
 
peculiarities; ponder over; due to; involve; depend on; push; base on; remedy;
 
A Strong Motivator 
 
A. Ambition is a strong power that a)people into vital dreams or planned deeds of them.A 
human being who keep on existing on the Earthshould have set special wishes in front of him to 
keepmotivated in life matters. That is a naturalb ) inside everyone. People wholack life or career 
ambitions face a lot of difficulties asfalling into depression or illness. Ambition is an alivec ) to 
keep active, motivated,aimed in life paths. 
B. A person intending to make an excellentcareer should firstly work out his job 
ambitionsaccording to which he will keep on regulating hisdeeds. For instance, a young scientist 
who wants toreach the top of scientific achievements should deeplyd )his ambitions. 
Thoseambitions can lead a young scholar to his dreams. Ascientist without certain set of 

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ambitions looks like aman intending to get much crops from the fields buthas forgotten to plant 
seeds in soil. 
C The following steps of scientific ambitions canbe useful for starter scholars to have maximum 
resultsin science: firstly, select a concrete theme for workingat in your filed of interest. Secondly, 
find out speciale )___________________________and characteristicfeatures of a future 
invention according to whichyou can develop your scheme. Thirdly, a scheme ora plan of your 
future work should be worked out indetails. Fourth, experimental needs should be 
plannedbeforehand as well. These targets may be changedf) ___________________________ 
situations. Anambition clearing is vital in achieving somethingimportant in science. But science 
ambitions shouldbe set being g ) ________ ________________ lifeambitions of a person. 
D Achieving this or that result in science or inany career somehow h ) 
_______________________how well one cleared out his ambitions which assistcreating 
something personal. As John Lubbock saidonce “Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, 
thetrue kingdom for each one of us; and true progress isto know more, and be more, and to do 
more”.