Answer the questions to the text.

1) What was the clever idea that Trevor Baylis had?

2) When did this clever idea come to Trevor Baylis mind?

3) What was the reason for this clever idea?

4) Why did only few people in Africa have televisions or radios?

5) What was the principle of a new mechanism?

6) Where can Trevor Baylis’s invention be used?

7) What do we call the kind of technology that Trevor Baylis invented?

8) What is the modern usage of technology?

8. Match the following words:

 

inventor energy(x4) electricity -friendly information technology invention generation a generator heating(x2) power(x2) a mechanism of computers

 

to generate   to collect
to convert   gas
to drive   young
central   solar
interesting   to design
famous   environmentally
to produce   the wind-up
to store   generation
electrical   type of