7.2 Listening
fixed phrases • sequencing information in sentences
A You are going to hear this lecture. Write four questions you would like answered.
B≤Listen to Part 1 of the lecture.
1 What is the lecturer going to talk about today? Write yes, no or not mentioned. ●
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hybrid engines biofuels
other options compressed air electric cars
manufacturing 2 What is biofuel?
C≤Listen to Part 2 of the lecture. 1 Make notes in an appropriate form.
2 What is another word for mineral fuels?
3 What minerals are currently used as fuel? Give some examples.
4 Were your questions in Exercise A answered?
D Match each phrase in the first column of the table on the right with the type of information
that can follow. E≤Listen to Part 3 of the lecture.
1 Make notes on the information that comes after the phrases in Exercise D.
2 Were your questions in Exercise A answered? Fixed phrase
1 An important concept (is) …
3 Looking at it 4 Say …
5 In efficiency terms, …
Followed by …
a different way to think about the topic
2 What do I mean an imaginary example by …?
a concluding comment
another way, … giving a result of something
a comment about a diagram or picture
a new idea or topic that
the lecturer wants to discuss
6 As you can see, … a key statement or idea 7 In this way …
8 The point is …
F≤Listen for sentences 1–4 in Part 4 of the lecture. Which sentence (a or b) follows in each case? Why? See Skills bank.
1 The internal combustion engine is the conventional technology. a In this type of technology, a fairly large engine capacity is required. b A fairly large engine capacity is required in this type of technology.
2 This works against forces that cause drag. a Examples of these forces are weight and friction. b Weight and friction are examples of these forces.
3 A second possibility is to make a much lighter engine. a With a lighter engine, the important thing is that a much more efficient car can be produced. b What’s important with a lighter engine is that a much more efficient car can be produced.
4 So lastly, we come to the hybrid engine. a In a hybrid, a different feature is that there is a combination petrol and electric engine. b What’s different is that in a hybrid, there is a combination petrol and electric engine.
G This lecturer is not very well organized. What problems are there in the lecture? 56
a general idea put into an engineering context
an explanation of a word or phrase
Faculty: Mechanical Engineering Car technology (Lecture 1)
Lecture overview
● greenhouse gases ● electric cars ● ‘hybrids’
● manufacturing
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