Choosing _ as a career
(02:01)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What do people have to think about when they choose their future career?
2. Do you know the following words? Can you guess the meaning of any of them? Study the meaning of the words:
“to apply something”, “to take things apart”, “to create”(“creative”), “to come up with (a solution)”, “to get involved”, “lab”= laboratory.
WHILE-LISTENING
Listen to the video without watching and answer the following questions:
3. What are the people talking about? Complete the heading.
4. How many speakers are there?
Watch the video-track and answer the following questions:
5. Put the names of the speakers in the order of appearance in the track (1, 2, 3, ….):
| Ryan Patterson | |
| Renae S. Tichy | |
| Chris Nieport | |
| Sean A. Falkowski | |
| Ben Staub Jr. | |
| Margaret M. Middleton | |
| Dave Myszka | |
| Susan Kotowski | |
| Jeft Wolff |
6. Where do all the speakers work?
Watch the parts of the video-track and fulfill the following tasks:
00:01 – 00:19
7. Complete the following text with the words that you hear:
| If you like to (1) __________ yourself, you like to take (2) __________ things apart and then back together, if you (3) __________ to see how something works just for sake of doing it, I think (4) __________ __________ would be what you like to do. |
00:51 – 01:05
8. Complete the following text with the words that you hear:
| Engineering (1) __________ would be a good major for someone who doesn’t just like to come up with an answer on paper or on a (2) __________ but likes to take it on the next (3) __________ and turn it into practical (4) __________ and come up with that final (5) __________ . |
01:14 – 01:33
9. Complete the following text with the words that you hear:
| I wanna* be in a (1) __________ , I want to work with other (2) __________, I wonna to, actually, work with my hands. …………… I want to see all those seriously on (3) __________ and I think people we actually wanna see help develop ideas, but actually see those ideas (4) __________ to life. I think that what (5) __________ __________ is all about. * wanna (American slang) = want to |
01:44 – 01:54
10. Complete the following text with the words that you hear:
| Do you like Math and (1) __________? Do you find (2) __________ interesting? Do you find (3) __________ interesting? If you do – this is for you! |
Watch the whole video-track again and answer the following questions:
11. Who … :
| says that an engineer likes to see how things work? | ||
| says that an engineer likes to take things apart? | ||
| says that an engineer likes to create things? | ||
| mentions any of disciplines that can be taught at school or university? | ||
| says about the difference between working on a computer and working at a plant? |
POST-LISTENING
Make a list of things that a person who wants to become an engineer in the sphere of Engineering Technology must like / or be interested in / or be good at:
“A future engineer must … “.
MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES
Part I
1. Do you know the following materials? Match the materials to their definitions below:
| glass plastic metal |
| a type of solid substance that is usually hard and shiny, that conducts heat and electricity. | ||
| hard, transparent substance (material), produced by mixing sand with soda by glass-blowing process; usually used in windows. | ||
| a light strong material that is made with chemicals and is used for making many different kinds of objects. |
What can be made of these materials?
Which material is the best for dishes?
Which is the best material for the following objects and why?
a folk, a football, a window, a bicycle, a plate
(“Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 5, pg.6, ex.1)
Read the information in the table below and put each heading into the correct column (A, B, or C). What is the order of materials in column “A”?
| Uses Properties Material |
| A _________ | B __________ | C __________ | |
| aluminium | light, easy to shape | aircraft, window and door frames, cooking foil | |
| brass (copper and zinc) | doesn’t rust in contact with air and water, strong | valves, taps | |
| cement | mixed with water it dries to a hard material | pre-made building blocks, to hold bricks together | |
| copper | easily made into wire, carries electricity well | electrical wire, tubing | |
| diamond | hardest natural materials, can cut glass and metal | industrial cutting and grinding | |
| glass | clear, hard, breaks easily | windows, bottles | |
| iron | hard | engineering | |
| mild steel (iron +0.15-0.3% carbon | hard, strong, quite easy to shape | bridges, ships, cars | |
| optical fibre | carries light and coded messages | lighting, cable TV, telecommunications | |
| plastic | light, strong, easy to shape | hard hats, computer casing |
(“Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 5, pg.6, ex.2)
4. Read the information in the table from ex.3 again and find out which material (1-10) is best for:
| a) | water pipes | |
| b) | a knife for cutting a microscope lens | |
| c) | connecting a socket to the electricity supply | |
| d) | a bicycle frame | |
| e) | television casing |
(“Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 5, pg.6, ex.3)
Study the table in exercise 3 again and complete the following table.
| verbs | adjectives |
Match the properties from the table (1-6) with their opposites below. Use your glossary or dictionary to help you.
| heavy tough opaque rigid weak soft |
| breaks easily | ||
| clear | ||
| easy to shape | ||
| hard | ||
| light | ||
| strong |
(“Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 5, pg.6, ex.4)
Find as many materials in the following line as you can (11 words).