Read the text and check your ideas. Where are they from? Great inventions are international, but where are they from? Where is the wheelchair from? How about aspirin? And chocolate? Read and find out! Food It's no surprise that pizza is from Italy, the invention of an italian baket, Raffaele Esposito: Switzerland is famous for chocolate, but chocolate is in fact from Central America, from Medical And what about another food, margarine? Well, margarine is the invention of a Frenchman, Hippolyte Mège-Mounes. Communications The word paper is from the Egyptian word papyrus but paper is one of the great inventions of ancient China And the pencil? That's from England. Now we don t communicate on paper very much, but by email. Email is the invention of an American, Ray Tom inson, Tomlinson's first email was QWERTYUIOP! Health Aspirin is from Germany, the invention of Felix Hoffman, for his ill father. And how about the wheelchair? The wheelchair is a Spanish invention, The first wheelchair was for King of Spain in 1554. Cover the text and write the invention for 1-5, V Then read the text again and check your answers. 1 Raffaele Esposito 2 Felix Hoffman 3 Hippolyte Mouriès 4 King Phillip of Spain 5 Ray Tomlinson
Nina Junaluska can speak two languages – English and her native Cherokee which (1) … (is dying) out. She (.2) … (performed) two songs in her native Cherokee at the Native Youth Languages Fair last year. Some 185 American Indian students, ranging up into adulthood, also (.3) … (celebrated) their native tongues by making presentations in 13 languages, from Cherokee and Comanche to Oneida, Navajo and Apache. Nina (.4) … (did not have) any trouble: she (5) … (has been teaching) Cherokee since early childhood, says her mother, who taught Cherokee in schools and is now a Tribal Council member. “She (6) … (was learning) the songs as she grew up,” Nina’s mother said. “It was passed down by our grandmother to my mother and then to us, and we (7) … (are passing) it on to my grand son now.”
