Answer the questions

1. What is the scientific method?

2. What steps does the scientific method include?

3. What is done if the hypothesis is discarded?

4. What hypothesis is adopted first?

5. What is the true scientist governed by in coming to a conclusion about any hypothesis?

4. Read the text again and retell it in English according to the
following plan:

1. The definition of the scientific method.

2. The steps in the scientific method.

3. Scientific approach to the solution of a problem.

4. What hypothesis may be said to be entirely satisfactory.

Give the annotation of the text.

Conversational Practice

1. Remember some of the words and expressions:

scientific innovation – новое в науке

impact – влияние

inventor – изобретатель

to put forward – выдвигать на первый план

to have the advantage – пользоваться преимуществом

2. Read the dialogue “Science: Group or Individual Activity”:

A. Do you think that the isolated inventor is still the usual source of innovation?

B. It seems to me that alone inventor in most fields has been replaced by the group.

A. But more often than we realize the original brilliant idea is still the product of one man’s genius.

B. It may be so. But if you live in a group environment and have the advantage of the scientific and intellectual contacts, that come from working with a large group of people, it can only be good for you.

A. You are probably right. As soon as a new idea is put forward,
it requires many people’s efforts before it can be transformed into a product.

B. Nobody will deny that at this stage innovation becomes
a group and not an individual activity.

A. I fully agree with you. But in each group it is necessary to have the chief, so called “generator of the ideas” who can lead the other members of the group.

B. Right you are. Science is a thing that is especially interesting for me. In future I want to connect my life with science.

A. It is convincing. Good luck for you.

B. Thank you. Good bye.

3. Answer the questions:

1. What kind of inventors is discussed in the dialogue? (Key: the isolated inventor and the group inventor).

2. What is the potential role of the lone inventor? (Key: the original brilliant idea is still the product of one man’s genius).

3. When does science become a group and not an individual activity? (Key: as soon as the new idea is put forward).

4. Tell about one of the well-known scientists with particular
emphasis on his contribution to a certain branch of science.