- •Warming up
- •Reading
- •Study and learn the following structures:
- •Read the following key-terms. Try to explain their meaning. Use the dictionary if necessary:
- •2.2. Mark the following statements as true or false. Read the text and check your ideas:
- •2.3. Read and translate the article:
- •2.4 Follow up tasks
- •3. Vocabulary
- •3.1. Match the term and its definition:
- •3.2 Make up word combinations and translate them
- •3.3 Fill in the gaps with the suitable derivatives of the words.
- •3.4. A) You are going to watch the video where Dr. Michel Laberge, the founder of General Fusion company, talks about fusion. Listen and answer the questions.
- •4 Grammar
- •4.1. Fill in the gaps using the Future Simple Tense or the construction to be going to. Nuclear power: Energy for the future or relic of the past? New nuclear
- •Nuclear free zone: Germany
- •Inherent risks
- •4.2. Tenses Revision.
- •4.3. Use prepositions where necessary:
3. Vocabulary
3.1. Match the term and its definition:
1. |
transmutation |
/ˌtræns·mjuˈteɪ·ʃən/ |
A. a set of related events in which each event causes the next one, or a chemical reaction in which each change causes another |
2. |
fission |
/ˈfɪʃ.ən/ |
B. The process of changing one element to another, either naturally or by nuclear reaction |
3. |
fusion |
/ˈfjuː.ʒən/ |
C. a large machine that uses nuclear fuel to produce power |
4. |
chain reaction |
/ˌtʃeɪn riˈæk.ʃən/ |
D. nuclear bomb that explodes when the central parts of its hydrogen atoms join together |
5. |
nuclear reactor |
/ˌnjuː.klɪə riˈæk.tər/ |
E. an occasion when two or more things join or are combined |
6. |
hydrogen bomb |
/ˈhaɪ.drɪ.dʒən ˌbɒm/ |
F. The process of dividing the nucleus of an atom, resulting in the release of a large amount of energy |
3.2 Make up word combinations and translate them
1. |
chemical |
A |
materials |
|
2. |
radioactive |
B |
rate |
|
3. |
extreme |
C |
weapons |
|
4. |
artificial |
D |
energies |
|
5. |
high-mass-number |
E |
composition |
|
6. |
nuclear |
F |
transmutation |
|
7. |
uncontrolled |
G |
isotopes |
|
3.3 Fill in the gaps with the suitable derivatives of the words.
1. |
… high energy is required to bring two or more protons close enough. |
EXTREME |
2. |
Nuclear chain reaction releases energy at a very rapid … rate in a nuclear weapon.
|
CONTROL |
3. |
The liquid … ignited. |
SPONTANEOUS |
4. |
Artificial transmutation occurs in nuclear reactors with the … of particles. |
BOMBARD |
5. |
Solar power is the … of the sun's energy into heat and electricity. |
CONVERSE |
6. |
The process of … can be represented in terms of chemical reaction. |
TRANSMUTATION |
7. |
|
COMPOSE |
3.4. A) You are going to watch the video where Dr. Michel Laberge, the founder of General Fusion company, talks about fusion. Listen and answer the questions.
1. What are the two ways of doing fusion?
2. How does a tokamak machine work?
3. How does the laser fusion work?
4. What was the problem with MTF?
5. How was the problem solved?
Try to write in the missing words.
b) Watch the extract from the video and try to write in the missing words.
So I decided, okay, I'm going to make fusion, but I'm not gonna make it this way. I'm going to try to find a better way of making fusion. I looked into (1) ______________ and I found quite a few different ways of doing fusion. There's one method in (2) ____________, that I found quite interesting, and it's magnetized (3) ___________ fusion or MTF. That was worked on a little bit in the (4) ______________. In MTF what we want to achieve is that we have a big bucket full of liquid metal, and you (5) __________ the liquid metal like this, and it turns a big (6) ___________ in the center, like a vortex, a bit like in a toilet, you know, and then, in there, you put a lukewarm plasma, not too-too hot and then you use (7) _________ to push some piston, and you (8)____________ the plasma, and as you (8) __________ it gets even hotter. It's a bit of a mix between a magnetic ring and the laser. But it's a bit slower and I think it's much more practical. It saves a (9) ____________of big problems. The (10)____________ can hit the wall and they don't hit the wall, because they hit the liquid and that you can make steam with that thing, and make some (11) _____________. So this was a very good solution except it didn't work.