3e : fiche de révision : chapter 1 : A century of scientific and technological advances

Medical inventions : 

Vocabulary :

scientist, inventor, engineer, infant mortality, life expectancy,

To comment on a graph: the curve, to increase, to decrease, to be stable,

Medicine : disease, to cure, to heal, wounds, small pox, vaccine, vaccination, genetics, DNA, a diagnosis, doctor, physician, bacteria, patient, meningitis, scarlet, diphtheria, fever, penicillin, pneumonia, a drug,

Newspaper, cover, post, illustration, a post

to peer inside,

Dates to remember and to be able to explain why it was important

1928 : Fleming discovered penicillin

1953 : Crick discovered DNA

1971 : Hounsfield invented MRI and the scanner

+ 1958 : Norman Rockwell, Before the shot, to be able to describe the painting and what it is showing

To describe a painting : In the foreground, in the background,

Technological inventions:

Vocabulary:

a DAT (Digital Audio Tape), a CD, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, A Personal Computer (PC), High Speed Train, airliner, a mobile phone,

Dates to remember :

1945: the Atomic bomb

1969: First Moon lamding

1990s: Internet website

+ choose 3 other inventions you consider important and explain why.