Bright
sparks
It isn't just old
professors or managing directors with years of experience behind
them who have amazing
ideas. Ifyou are curious
who is currently rocking the world with their bright ideas, meet
three young people
who know the meaning of
inspiration, invention … and hard
work!
Angela Zhang scientist,
California, USA Angela Zhang had enjoyed
reading advanced science papers from a young age, but when she
explained to her chemistry teacher that she had been
working on a method for curing cancer, her teacher was
stunned! Angela had had the idea of developing a nanoparticle
that would deliver drugs to tumours without destroying the
surrounding tissue. She asked if she could do
research on her idea in a laboratory at Stanford
University. Angela admitted that she found it all a little
bit overwhelming at first. "But then I found that
it almost became like a puzzle, being able to
decode something, " she added. The
results of tests on her discovery have been very
promising
В) Emily Cummins inventor,
England
Emily Cummins had loved making
things from scrap materials ever since her grandfather gave her a
hammer when she was only four years old. Then, one day, Emily came
up with a simple, yet brilliant, idea. She designed a portable,
eco-friendly fridge that had the potential to help thousands of
people in the developing world. "The simplest method of cooling
something can be seen when you look at how we cool biologically -
through sweating or evaporation, " Emily said. So her fridge is
made of two cylinders one inside the other. As water between the
cylinders evaporates in the sun, heat is removed from the inner
cylinder, enabling food to be kept inside at a cool 6°C. Emily took
her design to poor areas of Africa where people called her 'the
fridge lady'! Now Emily gives talks encouraging young people to
follow their dreams.
c) Derreck Kayongo
community project leader, Uganda
Has it ever crossed your mind
how wasteful it is to use a bar of soap in a hotel only a few
times? Well, while staying in a hotel in the USA, Ugandan Derreck
Kayongo was very shocked to be told that guests were given new soap
every day while 2 million young children were dying every year
through lack of hygiene in the developing world. This got him
thinking. He wondered if he could recycle the soap for people who
needed it. So, in 2009, Derreck started asking hotels if they could
donate their used bars of soap that would be otherwise put in the
bin. "We sanitise them first, he explained, "then heat them at very
high temperatures, chill them and cut them into final bars. It's a
very simple process, but a lot of hard work. So far, Derreck's
'Global Soap Project' has provided more than 100,000 bars of soap
to nine countries absolutely free!
ex 3 Match the words in bold
with their meanings: likely to be successful,
solve,
shocked, clean, capability,
easily moved.( Сопоставьте слова, выделенные жирным шрифтом, с
их значениями: вероятно, будет успешным, решающим, шокированным,
чистым, способным, легко перемещаемым.)
Ex 4 Choose one of the people
in the text and think about why you admire them. Why are they
successful? How can successful people like this inspire us in our
own lives? In a few minutes, write a few sentences about this. Read
your sentences to the class.
Ex 5
Home task ex 8 write
essay