While-listening. Electrical engineering

PRE-LISTENING

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

POST-LISTENING

WHILE-LISTENING

PRE-LISTENING

CIVIL ENGINEERING

(02:12)

1. Do you know the following words? Can you guess the meaning of any of them? Study the meaning of the words:

“hydraulic”, “principle”, “be involved into”, “supervision”, “schedule”, “to run a business” (=to manage, to control), “timetable”, “to complete”, “completion”.

2. What are the main three areas that Engineering can be broadly divided into?

3. Can these areas be divided again into sub-disciplines? Yes or No?

4. What does Civil Engineering deal with?

Watch the parts of the video-track and answer the following questions:

00:00 – 01:03

5. Who and what is the speaker?

6. How many sub-disciplines does he mention?

7. What are they?

01:04 – end

8. What principles are used to create a design?

9. What activities are engineers involved into during their everyday life?

10. Summarize the information of the video-track by filling each gap with a suitable word:

  The speaker is (1) __________ Haritos, who is an Associated (2) __________ of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He speaks about (3) __________ __________. Civil Engineering can be divided into (4) __________ sub-disciplines – (5) __________ engineering (deals with soil and rock), (6) __________ engineering (deals with structures – bridges, dams), (7) __________ engineering (deals with water), (8) __________ engineering (deals with roads, ports, harbors, airports). To create a design two main kinds of principles are used – principles of (9) __________ and principles of (10) __________. Engineers are usually involved into different kinds of activities during their everyday life. They (11) __________, make schedules and (12) __________, run the constructions, manage the completion of a construction and its budget.  

(03:10)

1. Do you know the following words? Can you guess the meaning of any of them? Study the meaning of the words:

“application”, “broad” (field), “to encompass” (=to include), “power” “optic communication”, “to simplify”(=to make something easier to use), “to contribute”, light bulb”, “smoke-alarm”, “drought”, “age” – “aging”, “gadget”.

2. What does Electrical Engineering deal with?

Watch the parts of the video-track and answer the following questions:

00:00 – 00:36

3. Who and what is the speaker?

4. What does Electrical Engineering deal with?

5. How often do we meet electrical problems?

00:37 – 00:48

6. Is Electrical Engineering a broad field?

7. What sub-fields does Electrical Engineering encompass?

00:49 – 01:17

8. How does Electrical Engineering contribute to our society nowadays?

01:17 – 01:40

9. Do Electrical engineers work alone or solve problems together with engineers from other fields?

10. What are the problems of today that Electrical engineers have already started to solve?

01:41 – 02:00

11. What is the problem in Australia today?

12. How do Electrical engineers solve this problem?

02:31 – end

13. Do Electrical engineers design goods for old people?

14. What do they design?

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