GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS VOCABULARY EXERCISE.

• Find out whether you remember or not about the inventors’ name and their invention. Write
down in the chart!

VELCRO ZIPPER TELEPHONE REFRIGERATOR CAN-OPENER

TELEVISION SCOTCH TAPE FEATHER DUSTER VACUUM CLEANER BLUE JEANS

AIRPLANE

1. a long-handled brush with a head made of feathers,

used for dusting.

2. telecommunications device that permits two or more users

to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart

3. an electrical device that collects dust and small particles

from floors and other surfaces.

4. A refrigerator is a machine for keeping thing cold.

It is sometimes called a fridge or an icebox.

5. a fastener for clothes or other items,

consisting of two strips of thin plastic sheet,
one covered with tiny loops and the other with tiny flexible hooks

6. Jeans are trousers, a type of garment,

typically made from denim or dungaree cloth

7. a machine that has wings and an engine

and that flies through the air

8. a device that is used in the kitchen to open cans of food.

9. a device consisting of two flexible strips of metal or plastic

with interlocking projections closed or opened by
pulling a slide along them

10. transparent adhesive tape.

11. a system for transmitting visual images and sound

that are reproduced on screens

Mr. Professor wants you to

write the inventors’ name and
their invention in the chart! ☺