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9. Pre-listening: match the English words and phrases in the left column with their Ukrainian equivalents in the right column.
1. hammer | a) пристрій |
2. axe | b) розщеплювати |
3. screw | c) клин |
4. device | d) молоток |
5. split | e) гвинт |
6. light bulb | f) сокира |
7. wedge | g) лампочка освітлення |
10. Listen and fill in the blanks with the correct words from the list:
having, lever, slide, ponding, uphill, inclined plane, stair, knife, choose, lid, cut, wedge, base, screw, twist
These simple machines share a plan of attack:
A broom, a crowbar and a baseball bat
And so does a hammer when it's ____________________ a tack
And the fork in your hand when you're _______________ a snack.
Tell me the name of this machine
The one that gives me so much leverage?
It's a _____
You can ride up a ramp or ____________________ down a slide
Take a trip to the top of a roller coaster ride
You'll be using this tool with every ____________________ that you climb
Go up a ladder, if you're so inclined!
Tell me the name of this machine
The one that makes going ____________________ easy?
It's an __________
With an axe or a ____________________ you can split into two
Any number of things that a razor can't do
And a sword's what to _________________when you're challenged to duel
You can split, trim or __________________with this versatile tool
Tell me the name of this machine
The one that helps split things in two?
It's a __________
With the twist of a ___________________ I could see right away
That the ridge on the jar is what made the lid stay
And the ________________________ of a light bulb has angular ribs
Which thread themselves tight when you _________________ the bulb in
Tell me the name of this machine
The one that holds things tightly together?
It's a __________
SPEAKING
11. If two or more simple machines work together, they form a complex machine. Most of the machines we use today are created by combining several simple machines. Can you think of creative ways to combine simple machines to make work easier? Think about it and discuss in pairs.
Discuss the following quotations in small groups.
1. “The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye; clothing, an extension of the skin, electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.”
Marshall McLuhan (Canadian writer and social reformer)
2. “Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.”
Emma Bull (Writer)
3. “An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”
Ambrose Bierce (American writer, journalist and editor)
4. “For 50,000 years, ever he invented fire, the wheel and very recently the microprocessor, mankind has been striving endlessly to make himself 100 percent redundant.”
5. “If you wedge a rocket between the Rocky Mountains, you can reverse the rotation of the Earth.”
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