National Academy of engineering (script)

TASKS

1. What's the Point?

I. Demonstrate your understanding of some of the details in the listening. Based on the text you have just read (listened), give short answers to the questions that follow.

1. Who is Neil Armstrong? What is his profession?

2. When is National Engineers Week held? When was it first established?

3. Why was electrification chosen as the most important achievement?

4. How many engineering achievements were originally nominated for selection?

5. How many organizations participated in the project to select the top

20 achievements?

6. What is the function of the National Academy of Engineering?

II. Show your understanding of the listening. Based on the text you just read, choose the best answer to complete the statements.

1. Many people consider to be the first American engineer.

a. George Washington

b. Neil Armstrong

c. Wm. A. Wulf

d. Thomas Edison

2. The area of engineering that received the most recognition on the list of top achievements is_____________.

a. power production

b. transportation

c. medicine

d. agriculture

3. The most important achievement affecting public health was.

a. imaging technology

b. laser surgery

c. antibiotics

d. safe water supply

4. Air-conditioning and refrigeration show how something that seems ordinary can.

a. be very significant

b. be highly complex

c. be very popular

d. be taken for granted

5. The National Academy of Engineering is administered by.

a. the federal government

b. National Engineering Week

c. its own members

d. a major corporation

Understanding Words and Phrases

The words or phrases that fit these definitions are underlined in the text you just listened to. Use the context to try to figure out their meanings, and match them with the given definitions, Write the words or phrases in the spaces provided.

Example: in large quantity, plentiful: a b u n d a n t

1. to be the basis (of something):

2. very large:

3. a difficult battle, a big effort:

4. generous to guests; favorable

to living: 4

5. deep, thorough, far-reaching:

6. formal discussion and debate

of an issue: 6

7. greatly pleased, very glad:

8. a chase, a search; a work

activity: 8

9. neutral, fair, not prejudiced:

10. independent, self-governing:

11. terribly hot and humid:

LESSON 3

SMART MATERIALS

(ex. 1-5: White, L. Engineering p.5)

Before you start

1. Read the sentences (1-3) below. What does the word smart mean in each one (clever, fashionable, or formal)?

1 He wore a smart suit to the meeting.

2 She’s the smartest girl in her class.

3 They stayed in a smart hotel in New York

Reading

Look at the title of the text, Smart materials. Do you think the materials are clever, fashionable, or formal? Read the text and check.

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