Section outline

  • Newspaper Articles 

    Unit 18

    Translating into Turkish: Excerpt from Gestetner Gazette. 

    Grammar Points: 

    -  To be + infinitive (Exercise 18.1)

    “For the first time the public were able to see and hear the device that was to change civilization.” 

    -   Phrases in apposition (Exercise 18.2)

    “Bell, a Scotsman, was born in Edinburgh in 1847.” 

    -   Compound adjectives (Exercise 18.3)

    “The real breakthrough in telephone history came when Bell and Watson were tuning the so-called ‘harmonic telegraph’.” 

    -   Was able to/could (Exercise 18.4)

    “The following day Watson was able to hear Bell’s voice.”