Audio scale up student’s book Course 3 Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan State University of World Languages

PERSONAL AMBITION IN SCIENCE
Look at the photos and tell the class what messages they carry.
Work with your partner. Choose a quote below and 
discuss it.
a. The ripest peach is highest on the tree. (James Whitcomb Riley)
b. When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. (Cicero)
c. Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. (Bill Bradley)
d. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. (Salvador Dali)
1 Match the definitions and the words/phrases 
in the box.
to replace;
controversial;
alternative;
expense;
gravity; 
in flesh;
to own;
ambition;
a. the force which attracts things towards each other 
or a strength which makes objects fall to the 
g ro u n d ;________________________
b. causing 
disagreement 
or 
discussion;
e. to 
belong 
to 
someone 
or 
something;
f. money 
that 
you 
spent 
for 
your 
job;
g. in real life, not in the picture, TV or on the 
newspaper; _
h. something which differs from another thing, 
from which is usual, and offering possibility of 
choice;^
2 (T12) Listen to the tape and complete the 
following sentences with the words or phrases 
from the box.
provided;
disclose;
contentious;
youth perspectives;
decrease charges;
substituted;
c. a strong wish or intend to achieve something or to 
be a success, rich etc.;
d. to take something and put another one instead of 
previous one; to change one object for another;
A future scientist Akbar was invited to the radio
programme 
named 
a) 
___________________
to talk about his future plans, targets, and 
ambitions in science. Akbar has always dreamed 
of working at the scientific laboratories which
are b ) _________________________ with modern
technological equipment. The programme guest is 
claiming that he is working at the invention with the 
help of which people working at some spheres may have
a chance to c)_________________________ . Although
the host of the programme asked about details of the 
invention which should probably be alternative to 
petroleum Akbar did not d ) ______________________
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the items of it. Akbar has a number o f dreams one 
of which is to meet with famous world scholars and
discuss e ) _____________________ questions. As the
programme guest claims very soon traditional oil
productions will be f ) _______________________ by
other means.
3 Try to remember how the following words or 
phrases were used in the tape.
a)a huge laboratory b) world science conferences c) to 
get awarded with d) replace typical oil productions e) 
sun energy
4 Listen to the tape again and answer the 
following questions.
a. Why did Akbar decide to be a scientist? What 
made him be a scholar?
b. What inventions is Akbar working at now and how 
useful they can be for society? W hat are benefits 
of them?
c. When can Akbar announce useful sides of his 
invention? Why didn’t he do it in the programme?
d. What are other alternative ways of petroleum 
being worked out by scientists nowadays?
e. What are future personal ambitions of Akbar in 
science? What does he want to achieve in his life?
5 Work in pairs. Make up a short dialogue 
containing information about your future 
ambitions in science or in your specialty.
eg. - A: What are your future plans in your specialty?
- 
B: As I’m studying to get a diploma in a car 
manufacturing industry, I’m planning to found a 
mini-bus producing company in our region.
6 Work with your partner. Ask and answer tag 
questions.
Ask tag question about someone’s future ambitions in 
science or in his or her specialty.
7 Complete tag questions to the following 
sentences using different auxiliary verbs.
a. Life ambitions are basic and vital means of 
achieving success,............ ?
b. You know what your ambitions are in the field you 
are working a t , ............ ?
c. Scientific ambitions were first pushers of most 
popular scientists in the w o rld ,........... ?
d. Personal ambitions can really be fulfilled by hard 
attempts and experim ents,............ ?
e. Scientific ambitions had always been means to 
stimulate scholars to greatn ess,.......... ?
f. Ambitions should raise people’s self-confidences 
in order to achieve their purposes and goals, 
............. ?
g. As many specialists claim science is pushed 
forward by strongly-motivated and ambitioned 
plans for future developm ent,......... ?
8
Choose the appropriate answer to complete 
the following sentences.
1. They have to ask somebody else to help them ,___ ?
a) haven’t they 
b) have they
c) do they 
d) don’t they
2. You lived here three months a g o ,___ ?
a) don’t you 
b) had you
c) didn’t you 
d) have you
3. There won’t be any trouble,___ ?
a) wasn’t there 
b) won’t there
c) will there 
d) do there
4. The manner of addressing people in Britain is quite
different from o u rs,___ ?
a) it is 
b) isn’t it
c) is there 
d) is it
eg.
Speaker A: Bahrom, you are intending to 
experiment some sort o f artificial leather as a material 
for shoe making, aren’t you?
Speaker B: Yes, I am or No, I am not.
Psychologists recommend keeping away from people 
who belittle your ambitions in science. But the great 
people make you feel that you can achieve great things 
in science and be great!
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9 Read the title of the text and try to guess what it can be about.
10 Read the text and fill in the blanks with the words or phrases from the box.
peculiarities; 
ponder over; 
due to; 
involve; 
depend on; 
push; 
base on; 
remedy;