Учебное пособие по развитию навыков устной речи и чтения для студентов 1 курса технических специальностей

Units: Celsius, hertz, kelvin, ohm, pascal, volt, watt, newton, curie, amp.
People: Anders Celsius, Heinrich Hertz, Lord Kelvin, Alessandro Volta, James Watt, Georg Ohm, Blaise Pascal, Sir Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Andre Marie Ampere.
1) A is a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square metre. It's named after , a French scientist.
2) A is a unit of force. It's named after _____________, an English mathematician.
3) is the temperature scale that has the freezing point of water as 0° C and the boiling point as 100° C. The scale was developed by a Swedish astronomer, _______________.
4) A is an amount of electric power. It is equal to one joule per second. It's named after ________________, a Scottish engineer and inventor.
5) A is a unit of electric force. It's named after _____________, an Italian physicist and pioneer in the study of electricity.
6) An is a unit of electric current. It's named after __________, a French mathematician and physicist, a pioneer in electrodynamics.
7) An is a unit of electrical resistance named after ________________, a German physicist.
8) is the temperature scale that registers absolute zero (-273.15 C) as 0°K. It's named after ______________, a British scientist.
9) A is a frequency equal to one cycle per second. It's named after ___________, a German physicist.
10) A _____________ is a unit of radioactivity. It's named after __________, a Polish-born chemist who discovered radioactivity in several elements.


6. Work in pairs. Discuss the following questions with your partner.
1) Which of the discoveries mentioned in exercise 5 has been the most important so far? Why?
2) Which discovery will have the most far reaching effects in the future? Why?
3) Which of the scientists mentioned in ex. 5 do you admire most? Why?
Text B. “The USA Science Centers”
1. Read and translate the text.
Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech sector. Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading high-tech hub because of its large number of cutting-edge entrepreneurs, engineers and venture capitalists. Geographically, Silicon Valley encompasses the northern part of the Santa Clara Valley and adjacent communities, though the term is often used when referring to the Santa Clara Valley as a whole.