Summary:Chemistry is the study of substances; their properties, structure, and the changes they undergo

Exercise 11: Answer the following questions:

1. Can you explain the importance of chemistry?

2. Why do chemists consider chemistry to be the most important subject in the world? Do you agree with the statement?

3. What does chemistry study?

4. How do you understand the term “macroscopic”?

5. How do you understand the term “microscopic”?

6. What properties of substances do you know? Can you give their definitions?

7. What can you tell us about elements?

8. What do you know about atoms?

Exercise 12: Make your own short report about chemistry and its relationship to other subjects.

Exercise 13: You know that many English words are polysemantic. Can you find equivalents to the following words:

A.

identity	вопрос, дело
matter	спонтанная взаимная симпатия; взаимопонимание
nature	личность
science	характер, нрав
chemistry	мастерство, искусство

B.

There is good chemistry on the team.	спокойный, тихий нрав
science of manners	умение вести себя
What's the matter?	мастерство шахматной игры
impetuous nature	Только человеку свойственно желание хорошо жить
serious matter	добродушие, дружелюбие
It's only human nature to want to live well.	Игроки команды отлично понимают друг друга
placid nature	установить чью-л. личность
science of chess	важный, серьёзный вопрос
good nature	бурный, порывистый характер
to give attention to the matter	Дело в том, что…
to establish smb.'s identity	уделить внимание вопросу
The fact of the matter is that	В чём дело?
His identity was being kept secret	Его личность была засекречена

Exercise 14:

Listen to the tape http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BnAyMsSk6g and:

1. Try to tell in Russian the main idea of the text;

2. What proper names are there in the text? What do you know about them?

3. Read the song together with the authors; try to give a short translation of it.

Go back to the time of ancient Greece

Back with my main man Democrit

Discovered a particle oh so small

Called it the atom, let's do the Ted Wall! (известный канадский ученый - физик)

Now skip forward a few hundred years

And we see Ben Franklin, who suddenly appears

Took some string, a key and a kite

Then he got struck by some light – ning!

The smallest of the particles, the electron

Discovered by a guy named JJ Thom (SON) (Томсон, Джосеф Джон)

He bent electrons usin' a cathode ray

Dis guy's mad smart he did work all day (all day).

Fast forward now to 1909

A guy named Millikan doin' an experiment so fine (Милликен, Роберт Эндрюс)

Droppin in some oil he discovered the charge

And the mass of an electron, that aint so large.

The discovery of this next double team

Radioactivity? Got nothin' on OG Whipp'd Cream

Becquerel and Marie Curie (беккерель)

They locked that up, they got that Nobel P.

Now in 1911 came a guy named Rutherford

Heard 'bout plum pudding, said that's absurd

Shone a light, in his gold strip there were crates

Looked and said yeah yeah, now what haters?

This next guy his name was Chadwick, (Джеймс Чедвик)

Found the neutron with radiation mad quick

He also helped to found that nuclear fission

Just look at the guy, he's a magician.

Next we move on to this guy named Bohr

Figured out the orbitals we all adore

Made some contributions to quantum mechanics

And done turned us all into chemistry fanatics.

Now back in 1950 came a guy named Soddy (Фредерик Содди)

Looked in the nucleus said hey errbody

Discovered something he called the isotope

Called all his friends they said that's mad dope

But now we've gone and saved the best for last

Our professor Dr. Wagner, he's a blast

Best chem. Professor, and don't forget it

Come on Dr. Wagner, we really need this extra credit!

Exercise 15: Work with text according to our algorithm:

1. Read the title of the text. Particularize a key-word.

2. What can you tell about the text according to the key-word.

3. Read the text and underline the informative words and phrases.

4. Look through the text once again and formulate the main information.

5. Compose the plan of the text.

6. Make a structural and semantic scheme of the text according to the following points:

a) The aim of the text.

b) The context elements: main elements and secondary elements.

7. Ask your groupmates some questions.

8. Confirm the main idea of the text according to your own experience.

9. Tell your opinion about the information. Inform the group about some extra facts – make examples of similar facts.

10. Think and tell everybody about the benefit of the information.

11. How do you understand the title of the text?