Listen to the text and complete the sentences.
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- Listen to three people taking part in a survey about recycling. Mark statements as Yes (Ö) or No (c).
- Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- What is force? Give examples of forces acting on people and objects around us.
- Match the first part of the sentence (1-7) with the second one (A-G).
- Think of examples of natural materials that can change shape or colour, or repair themselves. Discuss with your partner what forces are used in these processes.
- Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Simple Tense, the Present Simple Tense, the Present Continuous Tense or the correct form of be going to.
- What do you know about the forces of gravity, friction and magnetism? How do they influence our lives?
- Fill in the words from the list below. Use each word only once.
- Pre-listening: match the English words and phrases in the left column with their Ukrainian equivalents in the right column.
- force of gravity - magnetism - north/south pole
- In pairs, discuss what is meant by “simple machines”. Are they still in use today? If yes, give some examples.
- Match the first part of the sentence (1-7) with the second one (A-G).
- Pre-listening: match the English words and phrases in the left column with their Ukrainian equivalents in the right column.
- to improve production processes - equipment
- Fill in the gaps with the proper item.
- In pairs, discuss what is meant by “complex machines”. Give examples of such machines.
- Match the first part of the sentence (1-7) with the second one (A-G).
- These tasks can help you to practise grammar topic “The Modals: Permission - Obligation” (See Appendix 1 p. 230 – 234) and do the following exercises.
- Complete the sentences with should or shouldn't and the words in brackets.
- Name as many metals as you can? Where are they used?
- Fill in the words from the list below. Use each word only once.
- Do you agree with the following proverbs? Discuss them with your classmates.
- Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple Passive.
- Look at the objects in the pictures. What materials do you think they are made of and why?
- Match each word from the text with its synonym.
- Listen to the text and complete the sentences.
- design and construction - dimensions of the object
- Put the questions into the Passive Voice.
- Listen to the conversations. Write the numbers.
- Work in pairs. What numbers do people usually consider lucky and unlucky and why?
- Translate the following sentences into English.
- Pre-listening match the words from the left column with their Ukrainian equivalents in the right column.
- Listen to the text and complete the sentences.
- Match the items in two columns in order to make correct Type 0 conditional sentences, as in the example.
- What other geometric figures do you know? Name the objects in the classroom that have the shape of a circle, triangle, square, rectangle, oval, arc, cube, cylinder, hexagon, etc.
- Fill in the words from the list below. Use each word only once.
- Listen to the text and answer the following questions.
- Use the information from the table to complete the sentences below.
- Match the measuring instruments to their names.
- Pre-listening: match the words in the left column with their Ukrainian equivalents in the right column.
- Listen to the text and fill in the gaps.
- These tasks can help you to practise grammar topic “The Articles – Countable/ Uncountable Nouns” (See Appendix 1 p. 198 – 199) and do the following exercises.
- Match the invention to its inventor.
- Match the first part of the sentence (1-7) with the second one (A-G).
- Listen to the text and answer the following questions.
- Fill in the gaps with some, any, no or one of their compounds.
- What other types of engines do you know? What is the difference between them?
- Fill in the words from the list below. Use each word only once.
- Listen to the text and answer the following questions.
- Underline the proper item to complete the sentences.
LISTENING
9. Listen to the text and answer the questions:
1. Where does the conversation take place?
2. What tool is being discussed?
3. Which materials can be used for its different parts?
4. What material is mentioned as expensive?
5. What material is mentioned as one of the hardest?
6. What requirements to the material do the engineers need?
7. Why it is important for the material of a tool to have a good degree of thermal stability?
10. Listen to the text and complete the sentences.
1. That’s certainly a scary-looking collection of __________.
2. The latest ones can __________ at over half a million revs per minute.
3. The requirement is abrasion __________, of course.
4. Obviously, they need to be very __________.
5. The last thing, you want is __________ material.
6. Drilling into a tooth at __________ speed, you obviously get a lot of heat build-up.
7. You can actually __________ burning.
SPEAKING
11. Work in small groups. Imagine that you are a 1st year student and you have to prepare for an examination in physics. Discuss the differences between the following mechanical properties of materials:
- strength and strain
- strength and resistance
- elasticity and plasticity
- stability and durability
- hardness and toughness.
12. Work in pairs. Discuss the following quotations with your partner.
1. “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.”
Albert Einstein
2. “Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.”
Jacob Bronowski (Mathematician and science writer)
3. “Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.”
Charles de Gaulle
4. “There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”
Theodore Roosevelt
5. “I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.”
Bill Veeck (American businessman)
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