What´s in a name?
Last week we came across the word "zeppelin," that´s an eponym (Eponym: the person for whom something is named) . These are some of the eponyms you probably know: Lamborghini, Watt, Newton, Volta, Celsius, Léotard, Sandwich, Silhouette, Guillotin.
Watch this video and put a face to those nouns:
Now you can do a Listening Exercise: click here and you can read the transcript of the video; you´ll get the audio as well so you can do a listening and a reading exercise at the same time. And this could be a good chance to learn the pronunciation of those words in English, why don´t you read along for some practice?.
Click here for a photo essay of some people who became nouns.
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