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  1. R eading comprehension

  1. Match the scientist and the branch of science he worked in.

    Igor Kurchatov

    Linguistics

    Ilia Mechnikov

    Mathematics

    Oleksandr Potebnya

    Biology, zoology

    Volodymyr Vernadsky

    Engineering

    Evhen Paton

    Nuclear physics

    Mykhailo Ostrogradsky

    Geochemistry

  2. Word search

  1. What seven-letter verb in the reading means “to improve the quality of”?

d _ _ _ _ _ _

  1. What seven-letter noun means “a society of scholars, scientists, or artists”?

a _ _ _ _ _ _

  1. What eleven-letter adjective means “standing out among others of its kind; prominent”?

o _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

  1. What six-letter verb in the reading means “to plan out in systematic, usually graphic form”?

d _ _ _ _ _

  1. What eight-letter noun means “One honored or awarded a prize for great achievements especially in the arts or sciences”?

l _ _ _ _ _ _ _

  1. What ten-letter adjective means “made by humans; produced rather than natural.”?

a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

  1. T hink smart

Fill in the blanks with one suitable word and read about another outstanding scientist.

schools

main

member

interest

considered

against

Academy

languages

history

expeditions

Oleksandr Potebnya

O leksandr Potebnya studied law, history and philology at Kharkiv State University. In the early 1860s, he was an active ____ (1) of the Ukrainophile Kharkiv Hromada, took part in folklore ____(2) to Poltava and Okhtyrka regions to collect ancient folk songs and rituals, wrote a Ukrainian primer for Sunday _____ (3). He was a Professor of Kharkiv Historical Philological society and also a corresponding member of the Russian Imperial ___ (4) of Sciences.

As a linguist Oleksandr Potebnya had four areas of ____ (5): the philosophy of the language, the historical phonetics of the east Slavic ___ (6); etymology and Slavic historical syntax. His ___ (7) works on the philosophy of language are “Thought and Language”, “From Notes of Russian Grammar” and “language and Nationality”.

Oleksandr Potebnya _____ (8) language as an individual’s and nation’s means of world perceiving and thinking. That is why he protested ____ (9) denationalization in general and the Russification of Ukraine in particular.

Potebnya analyzed the history of language as the ____ (10) of its dialects, and one of the first linguists to use a concept of a phonetic law. He wrote numerous works on accentology, esthetics and poetics. In 1945 his name was given to the Institute of Linguistics.