👉Communicative area: talking about famous physicists, reading about a famous scientist from Belarus, writing an article
👉Active vocabulary: fellow (countryman), to be an inspiration; word formation (prefixes semi-, homo-; hetero-)
👉Revision grammar: Conditional 0
1. What science does the sentence illustrate?
If you heat ice, it melts.
2. Complete the following statements based on the laws and rules of physics.
If you freeze water, it turns into ...
If you heat water to 100℃, it ...
If you drop ...
Look through the list of famous physicists. Can you add more names to the list? Where do you think the physicists were born? What were they famous for? What countries did they work in? Did they receive the Nobel Prize?
Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, Ernest Rutherford
Listen to the facts about the physicists. Complete the points with the information you will hear.
Name of the physicist
Country of birth
Country of work
Field of physics
Nobel Prize
Read the task and the article a student wrote for the school website about a famous physicist and Nobel Laureate born in Belarus.
A Russian Nobel Prize winner from Belarus
with a French name
1. Who is the Belarusian scientist mentioned as a Nobel Prize winner?
2. Where was Zhores Alferov born?
3. What were the professions of Zhores Alferov’s parents?
4. Who was Zhores Alferov’s brother named after?
5. In which year did Zhores Alferov receive the Nobel Prize?
6. For what contributions did Zhores Alferov receive the Nobel Prize?
7. What technological advancements are based on Zhores Alferov’s discoveries?
8. What is a heterostructure semiconductor?
9. What effect did Alferov’s presentation have on his colleagues in Saint Petersburg?
10. How did Zhores Alferov describe the impact of physics on humanity in the 20th century?
