Inventions and inventors

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Read the proverb and give the Russian equivalent.
“Necessity is the mother of invention”.



Listen to five short texts about modern appliances and match their numbers
With the names of the appliances given below. Choose the names of five appliances only. There is one extra name which you don`t need to use.

A – a car
B – a microwave oven
C – a cordless phone
D – a mobile phone
E – a camera
F – a computer



Are the following statements true or false. 
1.	When television images were first transmitted, viewers didn’t know exactly what the image was. T\F
2.	The television was demonstrated at the Royal Institute in 1926. T\F
3.	Colour images were not possible until after the 1920s. T\F
4.	Television images were first sent across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928. T\F
5.	Television images were first sent across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928. T\F


Complete the text with the words in the list:
a)information, b)computer, c)available, d)problems, e)advantage



Complete each sentence with different forms of the word 'INVENT'. Make any necessary spelling changes.

