THE SOUND MACHINE. Pre-Reading Tasks. a) Have a look at the way some things were invented. Match the description of the invention itself and how it was made.. b) How do inventors come up with new ideas? What qualities are necessary to make an invention?.

THE SOUND MACHINE

Pre-Reading Tasks

T a s k 1.

a) Have a look at the way some things were invented. Match the description of the invention itself and how it was made.

1. At a wine harvest festival the inventor noticed a wine press and saw it as a way to print evenly from hundreds of individual letters. 2. Developed from the bizarre suggestion of a radio death ray for shooting down planes. 3. It was originally invented in 1891 as a way to do up boots, but was later exploited by the US Navy as a means to fasten up flying suits. An Austrian surgeon extended its use, when he sewed one into a man’s stomach so that it was instantly accessible for internal dressings! 4. This was invented by an Irish schoolmaster in New York with the intention of sinking the British Navy.

a) the submarine b) the printing press c) the radar d) the zip/ zipper

b) How do inventors come up with new ideas? What qualities are necessary to make an invention?

T a s k 2. Which of the following cases seems the most unusual to you?

● This man claims that the cells in his body have switched their DNA programming from death to life. Many people, especially the elderly, have paid him considerable sums of money to obtain his secret of eternal life.

● This organisation freezes its ‘patients’ immediately after clinical death in the hope that science will find a way to revitalize such people in the future and rejuvenate their bodies. The patients pay around $150,000 for this privilege.

● This person claims that he has made a machine that gives possibility to travel through time: back to the past and forward to the future.

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