2. Who are we speaking about? Prompt: He was English.

3. His parents had a small farm. It was a very lonely place where there were no schools. But the boy got a good education.

4. At the age of 12 he was sent to the small town of Grantham and attended Grammar School.

5. At first he did not take any serious interest in his lessons at school and was very often one of the worst students in his class.

6. But one day, on his way to school, a school-mate gave him a kick in his stomach. So our hero had to fight with him and won. But he was not satisfied with his physical victory. He decided to study better than that boy. He began to work hard at his lesson and soon became the best student in his school.

7. Our hero did not play games with his classmates but he constructed models. He made an excellent working model of a windmill which was not far from his school.

8. He made a water clock. His clock became very popular, and his neighbours often came into his bedroom to see what time was it He made a water clock. His clock became very popular, and his neighbours often came into his bedroom to see what time was it.

9. The boy showed his school- mates how to make paper kites. He also made paper lanterns (фонари) to hold candles. His neighbours were afraid of comets. Our hero tied one of his lanterns to the tail of a kite and flew the kite up in the air on a dark winter night. His neighbours were very frightened.

10. Once there were a very strong wind and the boy decided to measure the force of the wind. He did it in an interesting way. First he jumped with the wind and marked the longest distance he could cover. Then he jumped against the wind and marked the longest distance he could cover. The difference between two distances he considered as the force of the wind.

11. Our young man was dozing in the garden of his home. The son was warm and the grass was like a green carpet under his feet. He could smell sweet odour of the apples on the tree under which he was sitting. Suddenly a ripe red apple fell on young man’s head. He woke up and rubbed his head for a moment. Then he picked up the apple which had struck him. He did not get angry and did not laugh. He asked a question “Why does the apple fall down? Why doesn’t it fall up?

12. Our Mister X is ISAAK NEWTON, one of the world’s greatest scientists.

13. Newton was intelligent proud brave ambitious decisive hard-working friendly generous honest dishonest mean aggressive violent cruel calm arrogant evil kind romantic sensitive wise intelligent proud brave ambitious decisive hard-working friendly generous honest dishonest mean aggressive violent cruel calm arrogant evil kind romantic sensitive wise because…

14. Newton was so absorbed in study that he was often very absent-minded. One day one of his friend came to see Newton who was as usual absorbed in some problem. The visitor waited thinking that Newton would not be long because his dinner was already on the table. After waiting a very long time his friend became very hungry, sat down at the table and ate the dinner prepared for Newton. Then again he waited. After a long time Newton came in at last, greeted his friend and sat down at the dinner-table. Finding nothing but bones on the plate, Newton said he had quite forgotten that he had already had dinner.