Vocabulary
Academic Word List
- polystyrene
- nonrenewable
- recycle
- robotics
- vaporize
- insulate
- activate
- carbon
- viable
- degrade
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercises 1 and 2.
Pre-Listening
Use the questions to begin a discussion. Try to be sure everyone in your group gives their opinion and explains why they hold that opinion before moving on to the next question.
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Have you ever completed a science project?
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How are difficult, funny, or scary outcomes part of the struggle to advance science?
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue in Exercise 3.
Listening
Exercise
Listen to the first 1 minute and 20 seconds of a larger Listening, which is only an Introduction to the topic. In your group, discuss how this relates to other research you've done and predict what you believe the rest of the Listening will be about and some of the topics that might be discussed. Try to identify relationships to STEM disciplines in the introduction. Try to rephrase vocabulary as much as possible.
Now listen to the complete Listening passage and take notes on it. When it is finished, talk to your group about the main ideas that are discussed in the Listening. Re-write the Main Topic and Relationships to STEM disciplines you made above by adding some more information from the Listening.
Post-Listening
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue in Exercise 6.
