6 Unit 6: Inspiration and perspiration Over to you!
Think of an idea for a new engineering invention. • What does it do? • How does it work? • What is it made of? Why? • How can you test its safety?
Project
Choose a well-known inventor in engineering from your country or region.
• What did he/she invent? • When did he/she invent it? • What does it do? • How does it work? • Did the inventor spend a long time developing the invention? • Did he/she make a lot of money from the invention? If not, why not?
Be prepared to talk about the inventor and the invention to the class. Can you use words from the unit?
Look at the Word list for Unit 6 on page 228 and do the tasks. • Find all the verbs.
• Choose ten words and write a sentence with each word. Can you now …
Yes
… listen for definitions of new words in a talk? … use the language of suggestions and decisions in a meeting? … write a paragraph with a simple structure? … guess the meaning of new words by working out the part of speech?
• Find words with three syllables. Underline the stressed syllable in each word. invention