Activities:

Exercise 1: Answer the questions:

1. Have new materials changed the life of mankind?

2. Can you name any materials that had been invented recently? Do it.

3. What new materials appeared in packaging industry?

4. What changes are seen in the sphere of robots manufacturing?

5. What is a motile gel made of?

6. Is weightlessness used to create new materials?

7. How long is weightlessness used in researches?

8. What results of using weightlessness have been achieved?

9. Can the usage of new biomaterials help to protect humans’ health?

10. Are you interested in the latest researches of the scientists?

11. What changes can the research of Higgs boson bring?

Exercise 2: Match the two halves of the phrases:

1	scientific	a	cell
2	packaging	b	conductors
3	stem	c	reaction
4	semi-	d	Model
5	shrinkable	e	laboratory
6	chemical	f	materials
7	Standard	g	boson
8	robotic	h	body
9	Higgs	i	researches
10	human	j	films

Exercise 3: Choose one variant:

6. Many new things and materials appeared after…

5. experimental data;

6. scientific researches;

7. significant progress.

7. A great variety of new materials appeared in ...

   1. packaging industry;

   2. weightlessness;

   3. technical needs.

8. The beginning of space era started …

   1. in the near future;

   2. in the middle of the 21^st century;

   3. in the middle of the 20^th century.

9. A chemical gel can walk like …

   1. the Higgs boson;

   2. a worm or caterpillar;

   3. the Belousov – Zhabotinsky reaction.

10. A great potential in industrial areas such as nanotechnology, electronics, optics, material science, and architecture has been achieved by

    1. the researches in nanostructures;

    2. weightlessness;

    3. usage of the Large Hadron Collider.

Exercise 4: Match the terms with their definitions:

1	Invention	a	Change, growth, or improvement over a period of time
2	Research	b	A cell that is taken from a person or animal at an early stage of development and is capable of developing into cells of any type
3	Development	c	An extremely small piece of matter that is part of an atom
4	Weightlessness	d	The activity of putting products into containers so that they can be sold
5	Stem cell	e	The building and use of very small structures that are less than 100 nanometers in length, using atoms and molecules
6	Packaging	f	A machine, tool, or system that someone has made, designed, or thought of for the first time
7	Nanotechnology	g	The detailed study of something in order to discover new facts, especially in a university or scientific institution
8	Particle	h	Having no weight, especially because of being outside the earth’s atmosphere

Exercise 5: Find in the text the English equivalents to the following Russian expressions:

1. человечество

2. архитектура

3. червяк

4. гусеница

5. вакуум

6. устройство

7. бумага

8. картон

9. керамика

10. лечение

11. жировая прослойка

12. восстановить

Exercise 6: Complete the sentences with say or tell in the correct form:

e.g.: He said goodbye to me and left.

1. ……….. us about your results in the researches. Did you have a success?

2. I wonder where Tom is. He ………. he would be here at 9 o’clock.

3. Higgs ……….. the colleagues that he was excited with his job.

4. Don’t ………. anybody what I …….. . It’s a secret just between us.

5. Jane couldn’t help me. She ……… me to ask Peter.

6. Jane couldn’t help me. She ……… to ask Peter.

7. What did you ……. the police?

8. The professor ……….. that I should start the experiments in a week.

Exercise 7: Agree or disagree with the statements:

1. Nowadays we can use different types of food packaging such as mechanical engineering, aircraft industry, furniture industry, medical products and technical needs.

2. The biomedical research laboratories start to make the future changes in the tomorrow’s life saving therapies using stem cells.

3. The Higgs boson was discovered with the Large Hadron Collider.

4. The Large Hadron Collider was built in the United States of America.

5. Finding the Higgs boson has become a big step for particle physics.

6. Stem cells are taken from a human being or animal at an early stage of development.

Exercise 8: Make a dialogue using reported speech.

Two young scientists want to invite colleagues from the laboratory to celebrate their successful invention. And they discuss who can come to the party on Saturday.

You can start your dialogue using the example:

• Did you invite Caroline to our party on Saturday?

• Yes, but she can’t come. She said that she was working really hard and she didn’t have time to go out in the evening.

• And what about Stephen?

• Well, I’m afraid he won’t come, because he said…

Caroline: “I’m working really hard. I don’t have time to go out in the evening.”

Stephen: “I’ve got a few days’ holiday. I’m going to Italy.”

David: “I’m ill. I’ve been in bed for two days”

Anna: “I don’t like parties.”

Tony: “My sister is arriving from Australia on Saturday and I’m going to meet her at the airport.”

Sue: “I love parties. I’ll be free on Saturday.”

Exercise 9: Find the words with the same meaning:

1	new	A	to discover
2	research	B	to wrap
3	to invent	C	latest
4	to pack	D	investigation
5	challenging	E	prior
6	lure	F	general
7	previous	G	demanding
8	overall	H	temptation

Exercise 10: Write an essay to the topic “The latest materials”, using 150-200 words.