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Active vocabulary

discovery відкриття

creator творець

contribution внесок, сприяння

welding зварювання

outstanding видатний

achievements досягнення

to do research проводити наукові дослідження

to utilize використовувати

protection of the environment захист довкілля

space exploration дослідження космічного простору

joint efforts спільні зусилля

cooperation співробітництво

to hamper перешкоджати, заважати

to overcome здолати

to investigate досліджувати,вивчати

2. Decide if the following statements are true or false:

1. The Academy of Science in Ukraine was founded in 1918 by Hetman Skoropadsky.

2. Since 2004 it has been called the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

3. The oldest university in Ukraine is the Lviv University founded in 1662.

4. The first electronic computing machine in Europe was designed by European scientists.

5. Boris Paton is the father of electronic welding.

6. V.Vernadsky was the first President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

7. Ukraine is developing scientific ties with some European countries only.

3. Match the names on the left with the definitions on the right.

1. genetic engineering

a) the application of physical laws and theories to stars and galaxies.

2. molecular biology

b) the study of the way geographical factors help to explain the basis of the power of nation states.

3. information technology

c) the manipulation of genetic material (DNA) of living things to alter hereditary traits.

4. cybernetics

d) the study of the way nuclear power can be made useful.

5. geopolitics

e) the study of technology related to the transfer of information (computers, digital electronics, telecommunications).

6. astrophysics

f) the study of the structure and function of organic molecules associated with living organisms.

7. nuclear engineering

g) the study of the way information in moved and controlled by the brain or by machinery.

4. Complete the following list with the name of the specialists in the particular fields. Check your answers with the dictionary.

science

scientists

science

scientists

chemistry

chemist

information technology

________

physics

________

cybernetics

________

zoology

________

civil engineering

________

genetics

________

astrophysics

________

5. Complete the following dialogue with the proper verbs in the right forms and role-play it: to discuss; to know (2 times); to be connected; to be achieved; to be split; to be; to mean; to design; to go.

Useful information

Alex: Hi, Nick!

Nick: Hi, Alex! Where are you going from?

Alex: You see, I’m a member of the students’ scientific society. And today at our meeting we ________ a very important theme dealing with the Ukrainian science and scientists.

Nick: It’s very interesting. I ________ many famous names but I’m not always sure of the sphere of their activity. Igor Kurchatov, for example.

Alex: Oh! His name ________ with the first split of an atom in the USSR. It ________ at the laboratory headed by Kurchatov only several months after the nucleus of the atom ________ by the English physicists in 1932.

Nick: And what about Vernadsky? Except the fact that he was the first President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

Alex: Vernadsky ________ the world famous scientist and he was the first to estimate the age of the most ancient elements of the Earth surface the age of which is 4,5 billion years old.

Nick: One more question. I ________ Yevhen Paton. I ________ he was a great specialist in welding.

Alex: Not only in welding but in bridge-building too. He ________ over 35 bridges including the famous bridge across the Dnipro River named after him.

Nick: It’s really very interesting and useful information. But unfortunately I have ________. Bye for now!

Alex: OK, bye! See you!

UNIT 8

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