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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;
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