While-listening. 1. What do engineers do in their career.

PRE-LISTENING

CHOOSING _______________ ________________ AS A CAREER

POST-LISTENING

WHILE-LISTENING

PRE-LISTENING

CHOOSING A CAREER

(00:43)

1. What do engineers do in their career?

2. Why did you choose to become an engineer?

3. What makes people choose this or that career?

4. Do you know the following words? Can you guess the meaning of any of them? Study the meaning of the words: “choice”, “scientist”, “community ”.

Watch the video and answer the following questions:

5. Who and what is the speaker?

6. What type of Engineering does he specialize in?

7. What made the speaker choose the Engineering career?

Watch the video again and fill in the gaps in the following text:

8.

  When I thought about Civil (1) __________ as a possible career choice, that choice was mostly dictated by the (2) __________ that I had an (3) __________ insides Physics, Chemistry and (4) __________ but did not see myself as a (5) __________. I wanted to be able to apply the (6) __________ of sciences in a (7) __________ way that could be (8) __________ to the community. And that’s what really sparked off my interests in (9) __________ Engineering as a career choice.  

9. Make a list of facts that may influence the choice of a Civil engineering career (Mechanical Engineering career, Chemistry engineering career, Electrical Engineering career). What is different and what do they have in common?

(02:01)

1. What do people have to think about when they choose their future career?

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

“to apply something”, “to take things apart”, “to create”(“creative”), “to come up with (a solution)”, “to get involved”, “lab”= laboratory.

Listen to the video without watching and answer the following questions:

3. What are the people talking about? Complete the heading.

4. How many speakers are there?

Watch the video-track and answer the following questions:

5. Put the names of the speakers in the order of appearance in the track (1, 2, 3, ….):

Ryan Patterson
Renae S. Tichy
Chris Nieport
Sean A. Falkowski
Ben Staub Jr.
Margaret M. Middleton
Dave Myszka
Susan Kotowski
Jeft Wolff

6. Where do all the speakers work?

Watch the parts of the video-track and fulfill the following tasks:

00:01 – 00:19

7. Complete the following text with the words that you hear:

If you like to (1) __________ yourself, you like to take (2) __________ things apart and then back together, if you (3) __________ to see how something works just for sake of doing it, I think (4) __________ __________ would be what you like to do.

00:51 – 01:05

8. Complete the following text with the words that you hear:

Engineering (1) __________ would be a good major for someone who doesn’t just like to come up with an answer on paper or on a (2) __________ but likes to take it on the next (3) __________ and turn it into practical (4) __________ and come up with that final (5) __________.

01:14 – 01:33

9. Complete the following text with the words that you hear:

I wanna* be in a (1) __________, I want to work with other (2) __________, I wonna to, actually, work with my hands. …………… I want to see all those seriously on (3) __________ and I think people we actually wanna see help develop ideas, but actually see those ideas (4) __________ to life. I think that what (5) __________ __________ is all about.   * wanna (American slang) = want to

01:44 – 01:54

10. Complete the following text with the words that you hear:

Do you like Math and (1) __________? Do you find (2) __________ interesting? Do you find (3) __________ interesting? If you do – this is for you!

Watch the whole video-track again and answer the following questions:

11. Who …:

	says that an engineer likes to see how things work?
	says that an engineer likes to take things apart?
	says that an engineer likes to create things?
	mentions any of disciplines that can be taught at school or university?
	says about the difference between working on a computer and working at a plant?

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