- •Wright Brothers Fly First Motorized Plane
- •III. Read the text and say why Wright Brothers can be thought of as audacious men.
- •IV.Comprehension Check.
- •I. Match the words with their meaning by placing the proper letter on each blank.
- •5. What do you think:
- •V. Discuss with your groupmates:
- •I. First thoughts
- •III. Read the text and do the tasks following it:
- •IV. Comprehension Check.
- •2. Complete the following sentences with the words from the box.
- •3. Read the text again to decide if the statements are true or false. Correct the false ones with the facts from the text.
- •IV. What do you think.
- •V. Discuss the following with your groupmates.
- •Television is Developed
- •I. First Thoughts:
- •II. Study the following words. Make sure you know them:
- •III. Read the text and do the tasks following it.
- •4. Arrange the following statements according to the logic of the text.
- •V. Discuss with your groupmates.
4. Arrange the following statements according to the logic of the text.
1. The first special purpose television station was built in 1935 in preparation for the Berlin Olympic Games.
2. Zworykin demonstrated a television receiver containing his "kinescope", a cathode-ray tube at a convention of radio engineers.
3. John Logic Baird tried to mass-market his television transmitter.
4. Zworykin's television camera converted optical images into electrical pulses.
5. K. Takayangi transmitted an image electronically in 1926.
6. The first live journalistic event covered by television was the 1937 coronation of Britain's King George VI.
7. Zworykin's "storage principle" is the basis of modern TV.
V. Discuss with your groupmates.
1. Who is considered to be "the father of television"?
2. What principle is the basis of modern TV?
3. What other inventors made great contribution to the development of television?
4. What country managed to mass-market television broadcasting?