Unit 3. What’s Your Knowledge? » Стр.73 (21)

Work in pairs. Choose an inventor or a scientist you like. One of you should make a list of questions to ask the inventor (scientist). Your partner is going to answer them. Role -play your interview. The interview with the “father of the cell phone”, Dr. Martin Cooper: 1. What gave you the idea to move with the cell phone and compete with AT&T’s car phone? 2. When did you make that first call? Who was it to? 3. What were the reactions to the cell phone like? Did people think it was unbelievqble, impossible, unnecessary? 4. How much did the first cell phone cost? Відповіді: 1. For 100 years, people wanted to talk on their phone away from their homes or cars. So in reaction, I and Motorola embarked on a project to create a more portable device. 2. The tirst public call was made out on the streets of New York. It was to the head of the cellular program AT&T. 3. Well, people were dazzled by the concept! It was beyond imagination that more than half of the people in the world would have these phones. 4. By the time we made a commercial product, it was in October of 1983.