Read the text about some of the inventions. Write the questions to the underlined words in your notebooks. There is an example at the beginning.
a) What was compiled by an English journalist?
a) The first crossword was compiled by b) an English journalist, Arthur
Wynne in 1913. It was in a diamond shape and he called it a “word-cross".
Crossword is now popular in newspapers and magazines all around the world.
Readers can win prizes for solving puzzles, but some do them just for fun.
Nowadays crosswords are c) daily published in some newspapers.
d) Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people
worked together and alone over the years, contributed to the evolution of
television.
Ancient Egyptians, the Chinese and the Greeks used “parasols” to protect
themselves from the sun and the rain 4,000 years ago. But e) modern umbrella
was invented f) in 1852 by g) an Englishman Samuel Fox.
I think we can vote for the Moscow Underground. The Moscow Metro is recognized as the most beautiful underground railway system in the world. The Metro opened in 1935 and now it is the second largest underground railway system in the world. The Moscow underground has 177 stations and 7 million people travel on the Metro every day. The Moscow Metro map is like the London Tube map: it does not show true distances, it only shows how to get from one place to another. The Moscow Metro has been around for more than 70 years and has become part of our culture and history. To many, the Moscow Metro represents all that is great and beautiful in Russia.