- •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:
“The New Breed”
Introduction
Dr. Stephen Ledbetter makes a technological and medical breakthrough when he creates a type of tiny machine, known as nanobots, capable of curing any disease or imperfections in the human body.
Opening narration
"Man has long worked to stave off the diseases that can ravage us. But what can happen when the cure grows more fearsome than the disease?"
Plot synopsis
Stephen's best friend Dr. Andy Groenig tells him that he wants to marry Stephen's sister, Judy. Overjoyed at the news, Stephen shows Andy the nanobots and explains what a remarkable breakthrough they are.
Andy later discovers that he has an inoperable cancer, and has approximately one year to live. In desperation he sneaks into Stephen's lab and injects himself with the nanobots. They quickly eliminate his cancer.
Andy tells Stephen about the success of his machines. Stephen becomes concerned about what impact the nanobots may have on Andy's health — and about the possibility that he may go to prison for using an untested drug on another person. Stephen wants to deactivate the nanobots, but Andy tells him not to worry because Andy injected himself and Stephen is not responsible. Andy convinces him to leave the nanobots alone.
The nanobots not only cure Andy's cancer, they improve his health in other ways, including: removing a scar, improving his eyesight, and making him stronger and more energetic. In Stephen's lab, Andy puts his hand over a bunsen burner* causing a severe burn, but the nanobots repair the damaged skin in seconds.
Stephen embarks on a series of tests to find out exactly what the nanobots are capable of. Andy is submerged in water and unable to breathe, but the nanobots keep him alive. Things begin to go wrong when Andy wakes up the following day to find that the nanobots have responded to the tests by giving him gills**, allowing him to breathe underwater in the future. After telling Stephen of this, they both agree that the nanobots must be deactivated immediately. Stephen is unsuccessful — he takes measure after measure to stop them, but he is never able to eradicate all of them.
The nanobots continue making "improvements" to Andy, including giving him eyes in the back of his head, bones above his stomach, keen hearing, and jellyfish-like stinging tentacles on his skin.
Stephen is ultimately unable to deactivate the nanobots, and Andy wants to die to keep his fiancée from seeing the monster he has become. Stephen kills Andy with electrocution*** and burns his laboratory, destroying any remaining nanobots and his research. The episode ends with Andy's grieving fiancée having cut her finger on a shattered photograph of him. The wound heals immediately ….
(Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Breed_%28episode%29)
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*Bunsen burner – горелка Бунзена
**gills – жабры
** electrocution - казнь на электростуле