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    Speakout DVD Extra Advanced Unit 08

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    8 DVD EXTRA

    ADVANCED UNIT 8 4 Underline the correct alternative to complete the


    extracts.
    1A Answer the questions. Make notes.
    1 These are the most positive/enduring of questions.
    1 Which of the sciences do you find most
    2 The glacier gradually inches/moves down the valley.
    interesting: biology, physics or chemistry? Why?
    3 But even this simple sequence contains a
                         
    profound/fundamental idea.
                         
                          4 Now that is something that you would never see
    in backwards/reverse.
    2 What are the most important questions for
    5 There is a reason, we have a scientific explanation/
    humans to consider? Why?
    cause, and it's called the arrow of time.
                         
    6 And once these changes have happened, they are
                         
    never undone/redone.
                         

    B Work in pairs and compare your answers.


    5 Match the words and phrases 1–6 with their
    meanings a)–f).
    2A Watch the DVD. Which of the things below are 1 enduring
    mentioned? 2 massive
    a) a volcano 3 inch
    b) a glacier 4 jumbled up
    c) the arrow of time 5 an illusion
    d) time travel 6 irreversible
    e) repeated events a) cannot be changed back
    f) permanent change b) huge
    c) progress slowly
    d) something which appears real but is not
    e) lasting a long time
    f) mixed up

    6A Choose one of the concepts in physics and find out


    as much as you can about it.
    • Newton’s three laws of motion
    • Quarks
    • Law of gravity
    • Dark matter

    B Watch the DVD again. Make notes about each of the B Work in groups. Ask and answer questions about
    three things mentioned in the DVD. the concept you chose in Exercise 6A .
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        

    3A Answer the questions in pairs.


    1 What are the two questions humans have been
    trying to answer for a long time?
    2 How does the appearance of the glacier change as
    we get closer?
    3 What is the ‘profound idea’ that the sequence of
    events in the glacier involves?
    4 What do we know about the passage of time?
    5 What is the major part of what it means to be
    human?

    B Watch the DVD again to check.

    © Pearson Education Limited 2016

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