Vocabulary Notes

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4 .Quantities, Measurements and Dimensions

1. Discuss the following questions:

1. Is an engineering project possible without knowledge of measure­ments?

2. Are you familiar with any units of measurement? If so, name them.

2. Learn how to speak about dimensions of different objects and shapes.

A

• How wide is the box?

• It's 2 centimeters wide.

• How long is it?

• It's 3 centimeters long.

• By the way, how high is it?

• It's 2 centimeters high.

• And what is the volume of this box?

• I t's 12 cm³ (cubic centimeters).

В

• What's the width of the room?

• The width is 3 metres.

• And what's the length of the room?

• The length is 7 metres.

• So, what is the square of the room?

• Well, it is 21 m² (square metres).

• Study this:

3. Make sentences:

EXAMPLE: a) The door is one metre wide.

4. Complete the dialogues.

1. - How ... is the book? - It's ... wide.

2. -What's the ... of the block? -The length is ...

3. - How long is the ruler?

-… .

5. Complete this following the example.

EXAMPLE: length - long

width - ______

height - ______

depth - ______

thickness - ______

6. Choose the correct form of the word in brackets.

E XAMPLE: You need to widen it by another two metres (wide)

1. How _____ is the tank? (wide)

2. What’s the ____ of the room? (wide)

3. How ____ is the axle? (long)

4. Can you ____ this workbench? (long)

5. I think we need to adjust the ____ of the shelves. (long)

6. Do you know how ____ the reservoir is? (deep)

7. P lease make sure the tank is the correct _____ (deep).

8. I can’t reach that shelf. It’s too ____ (high).

9. We might need to increase the ____ of the new shed. (high)

7. Use the proper word in the following situations.

1. The distance is very long/length. The long/length of the route is 2 km.

2. The wide/width of the river is 57 m. It's not very wide /width.

3. – What's the high/height of the building?

– The building is rather high/height. It's about 60 m.

4. – Is this lake deep/depth?

– No, it isn't. The deep/depth of this lake is only 6 m.

5. It's a very thick/thickness wall. Its thick/thickness is 46 cm.

8. Make questions and answers:

EXAMPLE: a) – How long is the wall? – It is ten metres long.

– And how high is it? – It is two metres high.

9. Make sentences:

EXAMPLE: a) The wall is 4m long, but the wire is only 2 m long.

10. Make questions and answers:

EXAMPLE: a) A: How long is the wall?

B: It’s 4 m long.

A: And how long is the wire?

B: It’s only 2m long.

A: That’s too short.

11. Study this:

12. Read these out:

EXAMPLE: c) Two metres by three metres by four metres.

1. 2m

2. 2m × 3m

3. 2m×3m×4m

4. 5mm

5. 5mm×6mm

6. 5mm×6mm×8mm

7. 1 km

8. 1 km×3km

9. 1 km×2km×3km

13. Make sentences:

EXAMPLE: a) The door is one by two metres .

14. Study this table.

Write it like this:	Say it like this:
4,653	four thousand, six hundred and fifty-three
5.653	five point six five three
1.01	one point oh one or one point zero one
0.57	point five seven