Make a summary of this text. (List the materials mentioned and their main properties)

Try to make your own small text about properties of wood, gold (or any other material of your choice).

Part III

(… адрес интернет-странички с видеороликами…)

1. MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTRE - WHAT DOES IT DO?

(02:17)

PRE-LISTENING

1. What do material engineers do in their career?

2. What do you think is the aim of a Material Science Centre?

3. Do you know the following words? Can you guess the meaning of any of them? Study the meaning of the words: “research”, “equipment”, “capability”.

WHILE-LISTENING

Watch the video a part by part and answer the following questions:

00:05 – 00:24

4. What is Material Science Centre?

5. What does the Centre do?

00:25 – 00:37

6. What is the equipment the speaker is talking about used for?

00:38 – 00:45

7. What kind of equipment does the Centre have?

00:46 – 01:00

8. How many Universities in America have special equipment (or instruments for research) that the speaker is talking about?

01:11 – 01:41

9. What capabilities do these special instruments have?

POST-LISTENING

10. Do you think that people need to have such Scientific Centers? Why?

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

AT CLEMSON GRADUATE SCHOOL

(02:50)

PRE-LISTENING

1. What does materials science deal with?

2. Do you know the following words? Can you guess the meaning of any of them? Study the meaning of the words:

“to direct (= to be the head of)”, “faculty”, “equipment”, “microscope”, “to depend on”.