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Find all the nouns in Possessive case in the text. Explain their use.

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  4. A) Match the idioms with their definitions.
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Find all the sentences with Subordinate clauses in the text. Define their functions. Give your own examples of the same types of subordinate clauses.

3. Find all the words ending - s in the text. Define their functions as: 1) plural of a noun; 2) possessive case of a noun; 3) a verb in 3-rd person singular.

14. Engineers Develop Safer, Blast-resistant Glass

to protect захищати transparent прозорий
to contain містити a fiber волокно
blast-resistant вибухостійкий embedded вбудований
vulnerable уразливий room місце
an explosion вибух cracking розтріскування
conventional традиційний to provide забезпечувати
layer шар flexibility гнучкість
a sheet лист quantity кількість
to replace замінювати    

 

To protect from potential terrorist attacks, federal buildings and other critical infrastructures are made with special windows that contain blast-resistant glass. However, the glass is thick and expensive. Currently, researchers from the University of Missouri are developing and testing a new type of blast-resistant glass that will be thinner, lighter and less vulnerable to small-scale explosions. Conventional blast-resistant glass is made of laminated glass that has a plastic layer between two sheets of glass. MU researchers are now replacing the plastic layer with a transparent composite material made of glass fibers that are embedded in plastic. The glass fibers add strength because, unlike plastic, they are only about 25 microns thick, which is about half the thickness of a typical human hair, and leave little room for defects in the glass that could lead to cracking. The use of a transparent composite interlayer provides the flexibility to change the strength of the layer by changing the glass fiber quantity and its orientation.

Speech patterns

to be half (twice) the thickness of something бути вдвоє тоншим (завтовшки), ніж...
the width бути вдвоє вужчим (ширшим), ніж...
the size бути вдвоє меншим (більшим) за розміром, ніж...

Say whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE.

1. The researchers from the University of Missouri are developing a new kind of glasses.

2. The conventional blast-resistant glass contained plastic.

3. The glass fibers used in the new technology are as thick as a pencil.

2. Give synonyms to the following words from the text:

to protect, expensive, currently, conventional, a fiber, a defect, quantity.

Use one of the options to fill in the gaps.

1. To make glass stronger, the researchers use glass ___.

a) tribes b) fibers c) strings

2. The composite layer inserted between sheets of glass is ___.

a) transparent b) laminated c) cracked

3. The new type of glass will be resistant to ___.

a) scratching b) heating c) explosions

 

Grammar Practice

1. Find all the noun chains in the text and give their translation. E.g. potential terrorist attacks – потенційні терористичні напади.

2. Find the sentences with predicates in Passive voice in the text. Define the tense of the predicate. E.g.: are made – the Present Simple Passive.


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