- •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:
Comprehension check
Read the text more carefully and answer the questions.
What environmental dangers has computer revolution brought about?
Why should old electronic equipment be carefully recycled?
What practical steps do the environmentalists take to reduce electronic wastes?
What is the European Industrial Council for Electronic Equipment
Recycling responsible for?
What is the other side of incinerating old computers?
What possible ways to cope with the e-waste problem do environmentalists suggest?
2. Using the line references given, refer back to the text and find words or phrases that have a similar meaning to:
making better (lines 1-5)
concern about (lines 10-15)
squander (lines 20-25)
producers (lines 35-40)
encouraged (lines 35-40)
reduce (lines 35-40)
The italicized words in the sentences below are all used in the text. Read the
sentences and match them with their meanings from the list.
It is cheaper and easier to dump them in landfill sites to compromise the air and land quality.
Researchers have found that computers are becoming one of the world’s biggest environmental hazards.
He is trying to convince producers that they should be responsible for reducing their waste without the need for legislation.
Why can’t they be adapted for use in schools and colleges, which are
desperately short of computer equipment?
She criticized the industry for suggesting incineration as an alternative.
The Council favours incineration for energy production and insists that landfill remains valid in some cases.
The Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling has been formed to draw up a set of principles for the disposal of computers.
1) discard 3) dangers 5) throw out 7) burning
2) supports 4) lack for 6) persuade
Focus on Language
Make nouns from the verbs given in the table by adding –tion, -ment or –ing. Complete the table below. Consult a dictionary if necessary.
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VERB
NOUN
to recycle
to generate
to pollute
to encourage
to combine
to introduce
to develop
to require
to produce
to equip
Make as many words as possible using the prefixes re-, dis-, over-, sub-,
en-, up- . Check the meaning of the words if necessary.
-cover -load -connect -large
-cycle -night -furbish -source
-grade -able -play -assemblies
-mantle -courage -come -scribe
3. Study the sentences in the box and make rules.
Expressing purpose with to, in order (not) to, so that and for
Make rules To express purpose
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