Speaking

Discuss these questions with a partner:

• Which of the words in
Exercise 2 and 3 are you
familiar with in your
language?

• Is anything named after a
person in your country?

Get real

Find out which things in this list are named after people. Can you add similar words from your language?

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• Mouse (for a computer)

• Bunsen (burner)

• Diesel

• Geiger (counter)

• Laboratory

• Morse (code)
Tarmac
Text (book)

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