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UNIT 5 Lesson 7: An Amazing Man

1. Look at the pictures. What can you see?

A B

2. Read Tim’s diary. What is the name 3. Read the diary again.

of the amazing man? Answer the questions.

A Where is Dr Emeagwali from?
B Why did he leave school at 14?
C Why did he go to the library?
Today, I read about an amazing
D Why did he go to USA?
man called Dr Philip Emeagwali. He
E What did he invent?
was born in Nigeria in 1954 into a
4. Ask and answer questions about
poor family. Philip was very clever
Dr Phillip Emeagwali.
and loved Maths, but he left school
when he was 14. He needed to get
Where is
a job and get some money, but
Dr Emeagwali from?
his father told him to study in the
evenings. Every night, he went to
the library and read books about
Maths, Science and English.

When he was 17, he won a
scholarship to a university in USA.
Dr Emeagwali became a computer

scientist and invented very fast
computers. He has won more than
100 prizes for his work.

He is from...

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