Lesson 1

Vocabulary

1. Complete the sentences with these words.

1. A sports coach teaches people how to play or improve in a sport.

2. A surgeon knows how to look inside the body to help people who are ill.

3. A scientist does experiments to study and find out about how things work.

4. A patron gives money to people or places.

Language

2. Circle the correct words.

When / As my parents were younger, they lived in Luxor. Then they moved to Port Said at / in 1990.

My father got a job in Cairo 15 years ago / then. They then lived in a small flat from / in 2005 from / to 2006.

They moved to the bigger flat a year later when / while I was born.

3. Choose the correct year, then match to make sentences.

1. in 2016 a shark attaked Omar, d. and he lost a leg.

2. before Sameera Moussa died in 1952 , she was Egypt's first female nuclear scientist and,

b. wanted to use nuclear treatments in medicine.

3. In 2006, Magdy Yacoub started a charity, a. to help children with heart problems.

4. The Egyptian University was opened in 1908, c. after princess Fatma Ismail gave it money and land.