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Top 10 greatest discoveries
Watch the video. Answer the questions and do the tasks:
I.
List the discoveries described in the film. Next to each discovery write down its key features and
notable facts of how it was made. Use the questions below to guide you.
10) What are the 3 laws of motion? How are they illustrated in the documentary?
9) What did Robert Hook compare the cork cells with? What is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
famous for? How did he make his discovery?
8) What was Alexander Fleming’s discovery? Who were his followers and what was their
contribution?
7) What observation did Ignaz Semmelweis make? What experiment did he conduct and what
were the results? Why was his follower determined to find the cause for diseases? What put
him on the right track?
6) What kind of experiments were carried out by Gregor Mendel? When does a hidden
characteristic appear? What defines each characteristic?
5) Why did Nikolaus Copernicus reject Greek Earth-centered system? What was his
revolutionary idea?
4) How did Dmitry Mendeleev discover the periodic table? What was his risky prediction? What
is the table compared to? What element was numbered after the professor?
3) How is the equation E=mc2 done? What is contained in a small quantity if matter? How this
was illustrated in the film?
2) What made Albert Einstein come up with a concept of curved space? What occasion helped
to prove his theory?
1) Why did Charles Darwin quit the medical school? What important observations did he make
during his voyage? What is the driving force behind life? Why did it take 20 years to publish the
theory of natural selection?
II.
Do you agree with the places assigned to each discovery? How would you rearrange the list?
III.
What discoveries in your opinion should be thrown out of this list and what are a must in such a
list? Prove your point.
IV.
Which of the discoveries were made as a result of prolonged study and which came “out of the
blue”? What do you think is the share of accidental discoveries in science?
Here is the list of words from the video that may be difficult for comprehension.
1. insight
9. autopsy
17. perihelion
2. protozoa
10. Loius Pasteur
18. eclipse
3. mould
11. germ
19. specimen
4. Howard Florey
12. cross-breeding
20. species
5. Ernst Chain
13. wrinkled
21. finch
6. lethal
14. recessive
22. beak
7. childbed fever
15. amateur
23. thrive
8. midwife
16. Lothar von Meyer