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Unit 4
Unit 4 Scientists who changed the world
Making a plan for the school
Science Festival
Integrated skills
To be able to listen for the detailed information
To learn to take notes of useful information while listening
To know what to include in making a plan for a school Science Festival
Discuss the questions with your partner:
What is a school Science Festival
What do you expect to do at a school Science Festival
What is included in the plan for a school Science Festival
1. when it will take place
2. where the activities will be held
3. who will get involved
4. what equipment they need to prepare
5. why to make these arrangements
6. how to make sure things will go well
What are included in the plan for a school Science Festival
The chairperson of the school Science Club is talking about the school Science Festival.
Listen to her talk, circle the incorrect information in each statement and correct it in the blanks.
A1
1 The Science Festival is coming up in two months. __________
2 The Science Festival was started five years ago. __________
3 The Science Festival aims to encourage students to take an interest in science and develop skills that may help them in their study. __________
4 Students who take part in the workshop can design different experiments. __________
5 The plan should be handed in next week. __________
next month
three
future lives
try
by this Friday
If you need to write down information quickly, it is important that you make your notes as brief as possible. You can:
use abbreviations and contractions;
write down only the keywords;
use symbols.
Taking notes
Abbreviations: “IT” for information technology;
“Dr” for doctor;
“ICU” for Intensive Care Unit;
Contractions: “it’s” for it is;
“haven’t” for have not;
“doesn’t” for does not;
Use abbreviations and contractions
Write down only the keywords
Keyword is a word that tells you about the main idea or subject of something, like the word that you type into a search engine so that it will search for information related to the word on the Internet.
Use symbols
Symbol can be a number, a letter or a sign used to represent something. For example, the sign “O2” can stand for the oxygen; “$” stands for the dollar.
Listen to the chairperson’s talk again and complete the notes below.
A2
What to include in the plan
________ of the Science Festival
Events of the Science Festival
(2) _________ by a well-known scientist
The person to be invited
The time and place for the event
(3) __________ that students might be interested in
Theme
A lecture
The topic
What to include in the plan
Science Workshop
Experiments to be done
Equipment and (4)__________ needed
(5)_____________
Suggestions on how each class can design activities and (6)________________________
materials
Science Fair
decorate their classroom
Summarise what to do by writing down keywords or symbols:
festival, plan, interested, skills, theme,
lecture, who, when, where, topic,
workshop, experiment, equipment, materials,
fair, activity, decoration, suggestions…
3yrs, 3dys, Fri…
Tapescript
Our annual Science Festival is coming up next month! As members of the Science Club, you should write a plan for the Science Festival. First, let me explain the aim of the festival and the events we’ll have.
We started the Science Festival three years ago. It aims to encourage students to take an interest in science and develop skills that may help them in their future lives.
The Science Festival will last three days. The first and most important thing you need to do is to think of a theme for this year’s festival. All events will be centred around the theme you decide on. For the first event, we’ll invite a well-known scientist to give a lecture. Think about who you’d like us to
invite, when and where the lecture will be given, and a topic that students might be interested in. Then we’ll have a Science Workshop, where students can try different experiments.
So, you should also come up with ideas for experiments that could be done, including what equipment and materials
would be needed. Finally, there’ll be a huge Science Fair. Each class can design some activities and decorate their classroom, and you should give some suggestions on how to do these in your plan.
Please send me your plan by this Friday. Next week we’ll make a final decision on this year’s theme and events. Thank you!
Finish writing your plan for the Science Festival.
Preview the school news report on Page 51.