I. BEFORE YOU READ

Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.

(Làm việc từng đôi. Hỏi và trả lời các câu hỏi.)

1. Can name some scientists and their specialisations?

2. Have you ever heard of Marie Curie?

3. What do you know about her?

Trả lời:

1. I know four scientists: Louis Pasleur, Michael Faraday, Gregor Johann Mendel, and Alexander Fleming.

a. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was a world famous French chemist and biologist.

b. Michacl Faraday (1791-1867) was an English chemist and physicist.

c. Gregor Johann Mendel( 1822-1884) an Austrian botanisl, known as “the Father of Genetics".

d. Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was an English bacteriologist.

2. Yes. I’ve read some books about her.

3. Marie Curie was born in Warsaw. Poland, in 1867. In 1891, she came to Paris and studied at the Sorbonne. A world famous university in Paris at that time. She married Pierre Curie in 1895. In 1903, Marie received a Ph.D at Sorbonne and she was the first woman professor at the Sorbonne after her husband's, death. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She died in 1934.