Cutting Edge Elementary Worksheet C. You are now going to ask your teacher about the inventor. Is it possible to use the questions your wrote in exercise B? Were your answers correct?
Cutting Edge Elementary Worksheet D. Use the questions above to get information about another inventor. You can ask your family and/or friends. Write your questions and the answers. _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________
Cutting Edge Elementary Worksheet Module 8 Teacher’s notes A. Who invented the World Wide Web? What can you remember about him? (page 58 of the student’s book) 1. invention: World Wide Web (WWW) 2. name: Tim Berners-Lee 3. age: 4. 45nationality: British
5. school: in London 6. university: Oxford 7. job: in a computer company 8. address: Massachusetts, USA
B. What questions can you ask to get the information above? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
What was his invention? / What did he invent? What’s his name? / What’s he called? How old is he? Where’s he from? / Where was he born? Where did he study? Which university did he study at? / Which university did he go to? What’s his job? / What’s his occupation? / What does he do? Where does he live? / What’s his address?
C. You are now going to ask your teacher about the inventor. Is it possible to use the questions your wrote in exercise B? Were your answers correct?
1. What’s his full name?
7. When did he finish university?
His full name’s Tim Berners- Lee. 2.How old is he? He is about 45 years old. 3.Where was he born? He was born in England. 4.Where did he go to school? He went to school in London. 5. Which university did he go to? He studied at Oxford University. 6. What did he study? He studied Physics.
He finished university in 1976. 8.What was his first job? His first job was with a computer company in Dorset, England. 9. When did he move to the USA? He moved to the USA in 1994. 10. Where does he live in the USA? He lives in Massachusetts, USA. 11. What did he invent? He invented the World Wide Web.
For this exercise, explain that you will only answer correctly formed questions. Make a note of the ‘correct’ questions on the board so that students can correct any mistakes. D. Use the questions above to get information about another inventor. You can ask your family and/or friends. Please write your questions and the answers you get. This could be set as homework or could be done in pairs in class. You could ask them to search on the web for famous inventors. Go to a search engine, like www.google.com and type in the key words ‘famous inventors’ or ‘famous inventions’.
