Words and word combinations
Fear-monger – паникёр
Dazzling – ослепительный
Nightmare – кошмар; страшный сон
Breakthrough –прорыв, достижение, открытие, крупное достижение,
Toddle – ковылять, уходить, учиться ходить
Stain-resistant – устойчивые к образованию пятен
Khaki – цвет хаки
Headwind – встречный ветер
Impeded - затруднённый
Precautionary – принимаемый для предосторожности; предупреждающий,
Ailments – болезнь, недуг, заболевание, недомогание, нездоровье, страдание
Fertile seed – плодородное семя
Sterility– неспособность к деторождению; стерильность
Asbestos – асбест, горный лён
Unpredictable – непредсказуемый
Unstoppable – непреодолимый, непредотвратимый; непреклонный
Exercise 1. Answer the questions
1. What are nanoworld's basic design elements governed by?
2. A number of companies are racing to scale up production of carbon nanotubes, aren’t they?
3. What is the precautionary principle?
4. What is the main task of the ETC Group?
5. Did the inventors of the technology see numerous potential benefits from plant sterility?
6. Why has nanotechnology become an unstoppable force?
Exercise 2. Make up 4 types of questions to the sentences:
1. Products would be invisible to the human eye.
2. Self-replicating microscopic robots the size of bacteria fills the world and wipe out humanity.
3. A number of companies are racing to scale up production of carbon nanotubes.
4. . Nanotechnology's potential for being useful is phenomenal.
Exercise 3 Discuss the following topics. Interactive work.
1. What is the current state of nanoscience and nanotechnology?
2. The uses of nanoparticles in consumer products.
3. Potential harmful effects of nanoparticles.
Exercise 4. What is nanotechnology? You will find the answer in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKh4cwAygPM
TEST
Choose the right answer
1.Nanotechnology is __________ science.
a) agricultural
b) mathematical
c) technical
d) an applied
2. Nanoparticles are particles less than ______ nm in at least one dimension, classified as natural, anthropogenic or engineered in origin
a) 10
b) 100
c) 1000
d) 1
3. Therefore the _______nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes now have the widest range of applications.
a) silver
b) gold
c) bronze
d) aluminium
4. U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative has described _______ generations of nanotechnology development
a) three
b) four
c) five
d) six
5. By embedding leaves with carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have transformed ______ plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay
a) parsley
b) dill
c) onions
d) spinach
6. Scientists believe that plant power could also be harnessed to warn of pollutants and environmental conditions such as _____________.
a) flood
b) hot weather
c) drought
d) frosts
7. Plants are ideally suited for monitoring the ________because they already take in a lot of information from their surroundings.
a) weather
b) environment
c) conditions
d) people
8. The researchers use a ________, which looks like a giant washing machine festooned with aluminum foil, not only to capture images of atoms but to reposition individual atoms.
a) optical microscope
b) scanning tunneling microscope
c) stereoscopic microscope
d) binocular microscope
9. The I.B.M. effort heralded a new direction for nanotechnology and that it might offer a route to new kinds of _________.
a) nanoparticles
b) nanoscale
c) nanometer
d) nanomaterials
10. Antiferromagnetic materials are now instrumental in _________types of data storage products.
a) two
b) three
c) four
d) five
11. The semiconductor industry draws closer to exhausting the ability to scale down today’s ______using lithographic tools that etch patterns on the surface of silicon wafers.
a) circuits
b) coils
c) wafers
d) windings
12. Nanotechnology is toddling into commercialization, with ________being embedded in consumer products like sunscreens.
a) nanometers
b) nanomaterials
c) nanosciences
d) nanoscale particles
13. A number of companies are racing to scale up production of carbon nanotubes -- molecule-size ____ ---of carbon with unusual electrical, thermal and structural properties.
a) cylinders
b) circles
c) squares
d) materials
14. The inventors of the technology saw numerous potential benefits from such sterility, including a reduced risk that other genetically engineered characteristics in plants -- like _________-- could escape into weeds.
a) yield and productivity
b) fertility
c) resistance to herbicides
d) resistant to poisons
15. Because nanotechnology is gaining momentum from the convergence of advances in genetics, robotics and artificial intelligence, it has become an ________force.
a) unpredictable
b) dazzling
c) impeded
d) unstoppable
16.Nanotechnology's potential for being useful is_________.
a) phenomenal
b) usual
c) unpredictable
d) dazzling
БИБЛИОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ СПИСОК
1. Nanobionic Spinach Plants Detect Explosives [Электронный ресурс]. Режим доступа: http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanobionic-spinach-plants-detect-explosives-1031 (дата обращения: 03.11.2016)
2. New Economy; Nanotechnology has Arrived; a Serious Opposition is Forming. [Электронный ресурс]. Режим доступа: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/business/new-economy-nanotechnology-has-arrived-a-serious-opposition-is-forming.html (дата обращения: 06.11.2016)
3. The Pocket Oxford Russian-English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 1994, Pp. 623