READING COMPREHENSION

1. How many professional physicists were there in Russia at the turn of the XXth century?
2. What was young Kapitsa interested in?
3. Why didn’t he enter the University?
4. How long did it take Kapitsa to complete his laboratory course at Cavendish Laboratory?
5. Who took a personal interest in the young Russian student?
6. How did the war influence Kapitsa’s work?
7. What did he prove electrons capable of doing?
8. Make a brief retelling about Pyotr Kapitsa, using active vocabulary.

The Institute of Physical Problems founded by P. Kapitsa in Moscow.

LISTENING

ENGINEERING PROJECTS

Listen to this excerpt of a talk given by an electrical engineer visiting a sixth form college.

Optional activity:

While you listen, decide whether the following sentences are true or false.

Homework

Online activity

Work in groups

Divide into two groups and do the following task:

a) Find the information on the Internet about Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa (about his life, family, his contribution to science, his activity on TV, etc)

/S.P. Kapitsa, the son/

b) Find additional information from the Internet about P.L. Kapitsa (when did he win the Nobel Prize and what for?).

Recommended resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Leonidovich_Kapitsa http://www.thefutureofscience.org/veniceconference2005/speakers/kapitza_s.htm

http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/rao/catalogues/trans/trac/trac_kapi_1.html

Offline

Speaking practice

Work in groups

In your group make a brief report about: a) S. Kapitsa; b) P. Kapitsa and then be ready to retell it to the class.

Homework

Writing

Write a composition about yourself: What did you do yesterday or what happened yesterday?

Grammar tests for self-study.

Lesson 2

Introduction

We were talking about scientists at the previous lesson. Scientific discoveries and inventions make our life more comfortable and wonderful. We can’t even imagine how to live without things around us. From the very morning before leaving the house we ...What do we do first? What do we always want to know ...? Try to guess the meaning of the word forecast: “We always want to know what the weather will be like in the near future.”

Listening

a) Listen to the story “Weather Forecast” and be ready to answer the questions that follow:

1. Where did the men travel?
2. Whom did they meet there?
3. What was the old Indian doing when they met him?
4. What did they speak to him about?
5. How did he know everything about the weather?

6. How do you think the weather forecast is made up now?

b) Retell the story.

c) You are the Indian. Tell your friends about the incident, using active vocabulary (make up a dialogue).

LEXICAL EXERCISES

Match the words and their suitable definitions given below:

Prominent, to be expelled, fortress, science, scientist, scientific, founder, nuclear, to establish, incredible, to devote to, defence, entirely, technology, common knowledge, device, to transmit, to prove, to disprove, capable, to list.

to mention or write things one after another; something that everyone knows; well-known; to be officially forced to leave a place, organization, or school; able to do something; a strong building used for defending a place; to prove that something is not correct; the study and knowledge of the physical world and its behaviour; to provide evidence that shows that something is true; advanced scientific knowledge; someone who is trained in science; to send an electronic signal such as a radio or telephone signal; relating to science, or based on the methods of science; a person who starts an organization or institution; relating to energy that is produced by changing the structure of the central part of an atom; completely; to make something to start to exist or start to happen; protection; surprising or difficult to believe; to spend a lot of time or effort doing something.

ACTIVE VOCABULARY

New words

Try to give synonyms or close meanings to the following words:

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