Учебное пособие по развитию навыков устной речи и чтения для студентов 1 курса технических специальностей

4. Match the sentences 1), 2), 3) with the advances A, B, C in 3.
1) “They are able to perform non-destructive inspection techniques for a wide range of applications from industrial inspection, surveillance, and security.”
(Dr Tariq Sattar, Department of Electrical, Computer & Communications Engineering, London South Bank University)
2) “It offers scientists novel applications in the field of biomedical sciences, and we are focusing on harnessing this potential to advance healthcare diagnostics and therapeutics, including localised therapy for cancer treatment”.
(Dr Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain)
3) “It will revolutionize astronomy, allowing us to study the Universe in great detail, from planetary systems around nearby stars, to the most distant galaxies formed when the Universe was only a tenth of its current age.”
(Professor Colin Cunningham, the UK Astronomy Technology Centre of the Science and Technology Facilities Council)
5. Role play. Imagine that you are at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition.
Group 1: You play the expert scientists of the UK. Study the information
from 3 again and be ready to answer the journalists’ questions about
the UK’s most exciting scientific innovations.
Group 2: You play the journalists who ask the expert scientists questions
about the UK’s most exciting scientific innovations.
Write down questions you would like to ask about these innovations.
6. Listen to the interview with a scientist from the Space Flight Center. She appears in a new National Geographic Channel series "Known Universe." While listening tick the correct sentences.
1) The universe began about 30 billion years ago.
2) The whole extent of the universe is just the amount we can see.
3) NASA scientists are becoming the first sort of interplanetary weather forecasters.
4) She prefers ‘Battlestar Galactica’ to ‘Star Trek’.