English for Specific Purposes

Electronic Engineering 27

 

16. Summarize general ideas of the text; try to enumerate more fields of nanoelectronics and nanotechnology application. Justify your ideas.

 

application field

reasons

 

1.

 

2.

 

3.

 

…

 

WRITING: A Nanodevice Design

 

17. Group work. Invent and describe a new (universal) nanodevice using the following words … (scale, performance, nanotube, application, efficient, portable, ultradense, develop, deal with, operate, consist of). Try to explain its features,functions and operation principles. Characterize the device using one or several superlative adjectives. Use supplementary reading section text Carbon Nanotubes - the Miracle Material ofthe 21st Century? and the links from Get Real tohelp you.

 

 

Get Real

 

Check these websites for useful information:

 

http://io9.com/5591295

 

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/201

 

0/03/engineers-create-first-motion-po.html

 

SPEAKING: Multimedia Applications

 

18. Project work. Divide in to groups (A; B). Using the information of the module as well as your own ideas, try to solve these problems:

 

A. Imagine that Nanotechnology is developing extremely quickly. Why is it possible? What will happen? In what way will this process influence the sphere of nanoelectronics?

 

B. Imagine that Nanotechnology features a precipitous decline? Why is it possible? What will happen? In what way will this process influence the sphere of nanoelectronics?

 

The following discourse markers may help you:

 

adding	These expressions are much more elegant than the	moreover (very formal); furthermore
	conjunction 'and'. We use them to add information	(formal); in addition; as well as that;
	to what has been said.	on top of that (informal); another thing
		is; what is more; besides; in any case
logical	These expressions show that the second statement	therefore (formal); as a result (formal);
consequence	follows logically from the first one.	consequently (formal); so; then