mos boring? Why? difficult to under- so? s gives the most lain your choice. ur books closed cts as you can Take it in turns to the class. can remember : What happene THE BALLPOINT PEN lion later? ORD FOCUS: IN SUFFIXES ON, -MENT Le with the Workbook. sary. Then adjective ventive anced lised e wwwwwwwwww When we learn to write, we don't think that a non-leaking ballpoint pen appeared less than one hundred years ago, in Hun- gary in 1935. Some prototypes were invented in the 19th century. A leather tanner (кра- сильщик), John Loud, from the USA made пропикак a marker but it leaked. The pen we use now was made by brothers Biro. Lazlo, a journalist, tried to improve the pen he used in his work and make it more practical. Georg helped him as a chemist. They developed another type of ink and used a ball. In 1938 the brothers patented their invention and founded a plant in Argentina. ink 1 dwrite ball point rge paper en- 5 - 3