Scuola secondaria di I grado “Viale dei Consoli” Anno scolastico 2017-2018 Classi 3D-3E “Impossible Interviews” Scientists Historical Figures and Sports Heroes “Solo gli uomini colti sono liberi” “” Questa frase del filosofo greco Epitteto, vissuto nel II sec. d.C., riassume il messaggio che in questi tre anni di scuola media la nostra professoressa d’inglese ha cercato di trasmetterci, spiegandoci che l’unico mezzo che abbiamo per definirci liberi è la cultura, l’istruzione, quella che gli antichi greci chiamavano “” “Paideia”. Prefazione Noi, alunni delle classi III D e III E, abbiamo deciso insieme alla nostra professoressa di inglese Daniela Di Sandro, di realizzare un progetto in inglese: “Impossible Interviews”. Abbiamo immaginato di intervistare alcuni tra i più celebri e illustri personaggi del passato che si sono distinti per coraggio e per grandi tributi all’umanità intera. Abbiamo pensato di intitolare la nostra raccolta: “Le interviste impossibili” perché questi personaggi ormai non sono più in vita, quindi sarebbe impossibile intervistarli e le loro risposte sono di conseguenza frutto della nostra invenzione. Abbiamo immaginato di averli ospiti in un talk show, in cui noi, da bravi giornalisti, abbiamo posto delle domande tali da permettergli di poter raccontare al meglio la loro storia. Vi lasciamo alle interviste e ci auguriamo che sia per tutti una piacevole lettura!!! Gli alunni della 3D e 3E I Indice Leonardo Da Vinci Alexander Fleming Alessandro Volta Guglielmo Marconi Louis Braille Martin Luther King Albert Einstein Emmeline Pankhurst Queen Elisabeth I Giuseppe Garibaldi John Fitzgerald Kennedy Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton Charles Darwin Thomas Edison IItalian Immigrants Steve Jobs John Lennon Muhammad Alì Giacinto Facchetti Jesse Owens Samia Yusuf Omar Pelè Valentino Rossi ~ ~ ~ Leonardo Da Vinci Interviewer: Welcome to our show. Today, we have a special guest. We are so exciting to meet the most famous, important character of all times and in the history of our country. Welcome to Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo: Hello everybody. Thank you so much. I am very happy to be here for your interview. Interviewer: Okay, thanks. Let us start with the first question: When were you born? Leonardo: I was born in 1452, in the small town of Vinci, near Florence. Interviewer: Oh Well! You were interested in a lot of things, weren’t you? Leonardo: Yes, It’s true. I was interested in painting, sculpturing, science, engineering and architecture. Interviewer: Wow! What did you study? Leonardo: Actually, I loved studying the anatomy of the man and the woman. Interviewer: What about your interest in painting? Leonardo: Well, I painted a lot of beautiful paintings: “The Gioconda”, “the Cenacolo” and “The Annunciazione”. I know that thousands of people go and see them in the museums all over the world Interviewer: it is true. What did you write? Leonardo: I wrote some codes about the techniques to paint with much reality. Interviewer: Wow! We know you invented new machines. What about them? Leonardo: Yes, I invented the flying machine and the calculator. Interviewer: Yes, as you know we can travel easily by plane all over the world. Finally, where did you live? Leonardo: I lived in Italy but also in France at the court of some Kings. Interviewer: Okay, thank you so much for spending your time in our show and thank you because your inventions have changed our lives and the world. Leonardo: thank you very much. Giulia Camba– Arianna Lorefice 3E 2 Alexander Fleming Interviewer: Welcome to “Impossible Interviews”. It is a great pleasure to meet Alexander Fleming, the Scottish microbiologist who has changed the world with his important discoveries. We would like to learn more about you. Fleming: Hello everybody. I am glad to be here and happy to answer your questions. Interviewer: When were you born? Fleming: I was born in 1881. Interviewer: Oh, thank you. Where were you born? Fleming: I was born in Kilmarnock , in Scotland. Interviewer: Well, did you study or did you work? Fleming: Well, I lived my childhood at home. Then, when I was young, I moved to London and I worked in a shipping office. Interviewer: Oh, thanks. What happened after that? Fleming: Actually, I inherited enough money so that I could 3 study medicine, my real passion. Later, I became a medical scientist and I spent all my time for research. Interviewer: Wow! What were you interested in? Fleming: I was interested in microbes and I tried to fight diseases such as Tetanus and Gangrene. Interviewer: Great! How did you do that? Fleming: In 1928, I saw that a mould grown in a Petri dish had killed the germs around it. Interviewer: Oh, and how did you call this substance? Fleming: I called this substance “Penicillin”. Interviewer: Fantastic! Why was it so important? Fleming: It was an important discovery because many diseases were defeated and it became an important lifesaver in the Second World War. Interview: Great, it was an incredible discovery! Let me ask you the last question: when did you win the Nobel Prize for medicine? Fleming: I won it in 1945. I was very pleased. Interviewer: We are so grateful to you, Mr. Fleming. Thanks to your “Penicillin”, we have a longer and better life; your discovery has changed the world! So, thank you so much for your coming. Elisabetta Tullii - Letizia Reale 3D 4 Alessandro Volta Interviewer: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, today a very special guest is with us, one of the most important Italian inventor: Alessandro Volta. Welcome, Mr. Volta. We would like to ask you some questions. A. Volta: Hello everybody. Yes, I am ready. Interviewer: The first one: when were you born? A. Volta: I was born in Como, in Italy, in 1745. Interviewer: What was your job? A.Volta: I worked as a teacher at Pavia University for many years. Interviewer: What were you interested in? A. Volta: I was interested in electrochemistry and I made many discoveries in this field. Interviewer: What did you discover? 5 A. Volta: In 1776, I discovered the methane and twenty years later, I invented the electric battery, called “Voltaic pile”. Interviewer: yes, it was a great invention and, as you know, the unit of electric potential is named, in your honour, as ”theVolt”. The pile is, nowadays, an important element for many portable electric devices like mobile telephones and a lot of other items. A.Volta: Yes, even if I could not suppose so much progress in technology. Interviewer: and the methane is one of the most important element for the modern life because it is one of main source of energy. Thank you Mr. Volta, your inventions have changed the world improving the quality of our lives. A. Volta: I am very pleased with the results achieved. Interviewer: Thank you so much, Mr. Volta, for that, we are very grateful to you Simone Crisci - Alessandro Amri 3D 6 Guglielmo Marconi Interviewer: Welcome everybody; today we are pleased to meet one of the most famous scientist in the world: Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi: Hello everybody. Interviewer: Mr. Marconi, you are Italian, when were you born? Marconi: I was born in 1874 in Bologna. Interviewer: you invented the radio, where did you make your experiments. Marconi: I went to England in 1895 and started making experiments. I was very interested in system wireless signals. Interviewer: When was the first time you managed to transmit signals? 7 Marconi: It was in the winter 1901. We sent the world’s first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean from Cornwall to Newfoundland. It was very exciting. Interviewer: What was the name of your company? Marconi: The name of my company was “Marconi wireless telegraph Company”. Interviewer: Why was your radio system so important? Marconi: It was very important for ships because they could send messages from the ship to the land, so the radio wireless served for help. Interviewer: When did you win the Nobel Prize in Physics? Marconi: I won the Nobel prize in Physics in 1909. Interviewer: Thank you very much, Mr. Marconi. Your invention was important and changed the world. Anthony Gonzales – Valerio Coladangelo 3D 8 Louise Braille Interviewer: Hello everybody! Today we are very pleased to meet a very special guest at “Impossible Interviews”: Louise Braille! His story is amazing and we want to tell it. l. Braille: Good afternoon. I am really happy to be here! Interviewer: Welcome, Mr. Braille. Can we ask some questions? Let us start with the interview! Well, we know you had a very difficult life. When and where you born, Mr. Braille? l. Braille: I was born in 1809 in a small town near Paris, in France. Interviewer: And what did your father do? l. Braille. Well, my father was a leather worker. Interviewer: We know you went blind when you were a child. Tell us, what happened? l. Braille: I was just three, I fell on a tool in my father's workshop and I went blind. It was terrible! Interviewer: I know. What did you do? What could you do? What did you like to do? 9 l. Braille I loved music and I wanted to become a musician. I learnt to play the cello. Of course, I could not read or write. It was dark around me. Interviewer: Did you go to school? l. Braille Yes, I did. I won a schoolship to the national institute for blind children in Paris. Interviewer: Wow! How was your invention born? l. Braille: In 1821, a French soldier, Charles Barbier, visited our school and he shared his invention called "Night writing" Interviewer: And... What was it? l. Braille Well, he used twelve raised dots on paper, so that soldiers could read top-secrets information at night.