CHAPTER 6, EXERCISE 5, SPEAKING PRACTICE



Exercise 5: See the weblog www.caibaselearning.blogspot.com
Choose the appropriate word from the options provided to complete the sentence.
1.  power, powerful, powerfully, powerless, powered
a.   There are many ways of producing____
b.   A battery ____ calculators occupy less space than their predecessors.
2.  electricity, electric, electrical electrically
a.   A lot of ___ is needed to operate large computer systems. Alexander Graham Bell invented the ____ light bulb.
b.   Many students today are studying to become ____ engineers.
3.  Magnet, magnetism, magnetic, magnetize, magnetized
a.   Both tapes and disk are considered ____ storage media,
b.   information is recorded on a disk in the form of sport cell bits,
c.    ___ is the principle underlying the storage of information in computer memories.


SPEAKING PRACTICE
Describing qualities of materials
All materials have various properties.
There are some materials and some properties you have to describe.

Materials
• glass
• rubber.
• copper
• steal
• wood
• porcelain
• polythene
• paper
• hard
• fragile
• resistant

Properties
• stiff
• strong
• weak
• tough
• brittle
• flexible
• elastic
• soft

Ask and answer the questions about the properties of various materials.
Examples : a.  -     Is glass resistant to fire?
-      No, it isn't. It is brittle.
   b. -      Is wood a soft material?
-      No. it isn't. It is a hard material.

Use the following notes to help you.
         glass/resistant
         polythene/brittle
         rubber/rigid
         wood/hard
         paper/strong
         steel/soft
         leather/tough

We often want to modify the statement about the properties of materials.
Examples:
         Glass is extremely brittle.
         Polythene is very resilient.
         Wood is fairly strong
         Rubber is quite tough.
         Paper is not very strong.


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