Unit 3. What’s Your Knowledge? » Стр.66 (13a-b)

Complete the following texts, and find out more about some important inventions and discoveries of the 20th and 21st century. Match them with the names of the corresponding inventions and discoveries from Task 1. One invention is not on the list. a) Circle the correct form, past simple active or passive. The atomic bomb was finally constructed in 1945 under the Manhattan project, which was launched by the US Government in 1939 and supervised by J. Robert Oppenheimer to prevent the Nazis from building such a powerful weapon first. It was detonated in New Mexico in 1945. b) Complete the text w ith the past simple passive of the verbs in brackets. The first personal stereo was the Walkman, which was made by the Japanese company Sony in 1979, while the iPod is a more popular version today, especially among teenagers. It was invented by Tony Fadell in early 2001, and it was produced by Apple.