GRADE 11-ENGLISH

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

ACTIVITY Number 1

Speaking Activity

What is a dream?

Do you have dreams?

Do you believe in dreams?

WHO IS THIS MAN?

What did he invent?

!LET´S  READ!

1.    Thomas Edison once said, “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Explained this quote (Oral Activity) Speaking Activity

2.  Let´s read

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Thomas Alva Edison

One of the most famous and prolific inventors of all time, Thomas Alva Edison exerted a tremendous influence on modern life, contributing inventions such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, as well as improving the telegraph and telephone. In his 84 years, he acquired an astounding 1,093 patents. Aside from being an inventor, Edison also managed to become a successful manufacturer and businessman, marketing his inventions to the public.

Thomas A. Edison, 1878. Photo courtesy of U. S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site.

 Edison's Early Years

Thomas A. Edison's lived in New Jersey until their loyalty to the British crown during the American Revolution drove them to Nova Scotia, Canada.

Thomas Alva Edison was born to Sam and Nancy (his parents) on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. Known as "Al" in his youth, Edison was the youngest of seven children, four of whom survived to adulthood. Edison tended to be in poor health when he was young.

To seek a better fortune, Sam Edison moved the family to Port Huron, Michigan, in 1854, where he worked in the lumber business.

Edison was a poor student. When a schoolmaster called Edison "addled," his furious mother took him out of the school and proceeded to teach him at home. Edison said many years later, "My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had someone to live for, someone I must not disappoint."  At an early age, he showed a fascination for mechanical things and for chemical experiments.

In 1859, Edison took a job selling newspapers and candy on the Grand Trunk Railroad to Detroit. In the baggage car, he set up a laboratory for his chemistry experiments and a printing press, where he started the Grand Trunk Herald, the first newspaper published on a train. An accidental fire forced him to stop his experiments on board.

Around the age of twelve, Edison lost almost all his hearing. There are several theories as to what caused his hearing loss. Some attribute it to the after-effects of scarlet fever which he had as a child. Others blame it on a conductor boxing his ears after Edison caused a fire in the baggage car, an incident which Edison claimed never happened. Edison himself blamed it on an incident in which he was grabbed by his ears and lifted to a train. He did not let his disability discourage him, however, and often treated it as an asset since it made it easier for him to concentrate on his experiments and research. Undoubtedly, though, his deafness made him more solitary and shy in dealings with others.

OTHER INVENTIONS

Automatic Telegraph

The Light Bulb

Phonograph

Movie Camera and Viewer

3. Draw the biography of Thomas ALVA EDISON-Write some sentences. 

Dibuja la biografia de Thomas Alva Edison y escribe algunas frases.

4. Why is it  important that you  don´t give up on life-(write your answer in two or three lines).

En dos o tres lineas, escribe por qué es importante no rendirse en la vida.
Debes escribir en Inglés.