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8. Read the clues and complete the crossword:

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Across:

3

The fact of being measurable; an amount or number.

4

A set of instruments, especially to help in controlling a machine.

6

The act of measuring; a length, height, etc., found by measuring.

7

A scientific instrument that makes extremely small things look larger, so that they can be seen properly and examined scientifically.

10

An object used to help in work where exact detail and measurements are required, such as medicine and science.

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A set of numbers or standards for measuring or comparing.

Down:

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An instrument used for recording height.

2

A level or degree of quality that is considered proper or acceptable; something fixed as a rule for measuring weight, value, etc.

5

An instrument for measuring and showing temperature.

8

The degree to which something is excellent; standard of goodness.

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An amount or unit in a measuring system.

LISTENING

9. Pre-listening: match the words in the left column with their Ukrainian equivalents in the right column.

  1. gauge

  1. спідометр

  1. estimate

  1. додатковий

  1. amount

  1. вимірюючий пристрій

  1. tool

  1. додатковий

  1. speedometer

  1. температура

  1. additional

  1. інструмент

  1. temperature

  1. кількість

10. Listen to the text and fill in the gaps.

Gauge, sometimes also spelled “gage”, means to estimate the size or amount of something. A gauge is also a 1)_____ such as a 2)_____ inside a 3)_____ to see how fast the car is going. See the additional examples below:

I wasn’t able to gauge how tall he was from the 4)_____.

The gauge was broken so I didn't know the 5)_____ was so high.

SPEAKING

11. Use the Internet or magazines to find information about history of measurement. Which countries developed the earliest standard systems? Why did they need them? Work in small groups.

12. Find out which are the cheapest and the most expensive measuring instruments? How are they made? Work in pairs.

WRITING

13. Choose one of the following quotations and explain what it means. Write a short paragraph (60-80 words) to express your point of view.

1. “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it.”

H. James Harrington (American author and engineer)

2. “An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.”

Max Planck (German physicist, 1858-1947)

3. “We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.”

Sir Hermann Bondi (Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist, 1919 - 2005)

4. “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.”

Baron William Thomson Kelvin

5. “Action is the real measure of intelligence.”

Napoleon Hill (American author, 1883-1970)

GRAMMAR IN USE

These tasks can help you to practise grammar topic “The Articles – Countable/ Uncountable Nouns” (See Appendix 1 p. 198 – 199) and do the following exercises.

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