- •Focus on Language
- •Practice
- •Keep learning? Keep earning!
- •What are effective study habits?
- •Focus on Language
- •Practice
- •First degree courses in the uk
- •Focus on Language
- •Combined Science
- •Roleplay
- •Game “Why physics or math, etc.?”
- •“Starting your haunt of treasures”
- •1. How is a book organized? Put the words below in the correct order. Consult a dictionary if necessary.
- •Focus on language
- •Focus on language
- •Discuss
- •Technology and Libraries
- •A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.” Shelby Foote
- •Reading Report
- •Practice
- •It made it possible to …
- •It became possible/easy to …
- •It was a breakthrough in…
- •It found widespread application in…
- •Discuss
- •Focus on Language
- •Invention /discovery
- •1. Work with a partner. Name any accidental discoveries or inventions you have ever heard about. How did people benefit from them? Did they cause any problems?
- •Breakthroughs of the 20th century
- •Discuss
- •Do you think that scientific and technological achievements have really made the world a better place to live? Give reasons for your opinion. Focus on language
- •Practice
- •Practice
- •Double-edged sword
- •Comprehension check
- •Unit 3 Review
- •Rules of the Lab
- •Learning Objectives
- •In this module you will learn how to:
- •Comprehension check
- •3. Go back to the text and pay attention to the words in bold. Put them in the correct column that shows their function in the text.
- •Focus on language
- •Practice
- •Discuss
- •Global Warming: Facts vs. Myths myths:
- •Environmental Hazards of the Computer Revolution
- •Comprehension check
- •Make as many words as possible using the prefixes re-, dis-, over-, sub-,
- •Practice
- •The Advent of “Green” Computer Design
- •Is anything possible?
- •Into the 21st century
- •Into the Future
- •Learning Objectives
- •Science for the Twenty-First Century
- •As old as writing
- •Discuss
- •1. Read the text and give a title to it.// give it a title
- •Discuss
- •“The New Breed”
- •Introduction
- •Discuss
- •Go online. Find and read a short sci-fi story. Write a reading report. Make use of the Reading Report Form given in Module 3 Unit 2.
- •Learning Objectives
- •In this module you will learn how to:
- •Careers guidance questionnaire
- •Part-time Jobs vs. Holiday Jobs
- •The experience that is shaping the rest of my life
- •What can I do with a Science degree?
- •Interests:
Discuss
What are the other technologies that led to the invention of a computer?
Which of them do you consider most important? Why?
What other Chinese discoveries and inventions do you know?
Which of them are still in use?
Get real |
Visit websites or look in popular science magazines and books to find information about two significant discoveries or inventions in your field of science made before the 20th century. Make notes on what you have found and report back to the class.
Follow the outline below:
Description
Inventor / discoverer
Scientific significance
Writing |
The title of the Unit is “Necessity is the mother of invention”. Do you agree with this well-known saying? Why? / Why not? Write a paragraph and comment on the saying.
Reading |
1. Here are the names of famous scientists: M. Lomonosov, T. Edison and
B. Pascal. What fields of science did they work in? What did they discover or invent? Read three extracts about the scientists and their research work and complete the chart below:
Name |
Country |
Field of science |
Accomplishments |
|||
Lomonosov |
|
|
|
|||
Pascal
|
|
|
|
|||
Edison
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765)
and experimental chemistry. It was Lomonosov who founded a new science, namely, physical chemistry by explaining chemical phenomena through the laws of physics. His law of concentration of matter and development of atomic - molecular theory of matter and molecular - kinetic theory were a revolution in Natural Science of the time. Besides, he made some notable discoveries in astronomy, geology and mineralogy. In particular, he developed the principle that nature undergoes continuous evolution and demonstrated the organic origin of soil, coal, gas, peat and amber. Lomonosov was also the first to separate geological processes into external (exogenic - wind, rain, rivers, glaciers,etc) and internal (endogenic - tectonic movements, volcanoes, etc). His geographical investigation led to the discovery of the northern passage to India. |
-
Blaise Pascal (1623 -1662)
At 14, French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal began attending weekly lectures on mathematics. When he was only 16years old, Blaise wrote a paper on conic sections, which was acclaimed by his fellow mathematicians as ‘the most powerful and valuable contribution that had been made to mathematical science since the days of Archimedes’.
This paper laid the foundations for the modern treatment of conic sections. Pascal always tried to make his work in science and mathematics of practical use to mankind. While still a teenager, he invented the first machine to do calculations - an arithmetic machine that could add and subtract. Pascal also worked with another mathematician, Fermat, on the Theory of Probability. He, in particular, invented a simple method known as Pascal’s Triangle to determine the probability of certain outcomes.
-
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
Perhaps the man who did most to make everyday life what it is today was Thomas Alva Edison. He was curious about the world around him and always tried to teach himself through reading and experiments.
Many of Edison’s most important inventions were made at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. In 1877 Thomas Edison made a recording on a little machine which
he had invented and played it back to himself. The first phonograph was not at all like a record player of our time. Anyway, it was a great step forward, a step that was to lead to the modern science of sound recording.
In October 1879 after long experiments he succeeded in making an incandescent lamp in which a loop of carbonized cotton thread glowed in vacuum for more than 40 hours. In addition to the phonograph, incandescent light bulb and the electric train, he also conducted early experiments in wireless technology. In 1885 he patented a method of transmitting telegraphic signals from moving trains. His life and achievements epitomize the ideal of applied research.
(Adapted from the Internet sites)