IV. Answer the questions.

1. What is the origin of the word science?

2. What is the main purpose of science?

3. How do scientists find out what they want to know?

4. What does science involve?

5. Are discussions necessary for scientists? Why or why not?

6. Why is science so important in our life?

7. What famous scientists do you know? What are they famous for?

V. Match the statements with explanations.

• Science is both a body of knowledge and a process.

• Science is exciting.

• Science is useful.

• Science is ongoing.

• Science is a global human endeavour.

1) The knowledge generated by science is powerful and reliable. It can be used to develop new technologies, treat diseases, and deal with many other sorts of problems.

2) In school, science may sometimes seem like a collection of isolated and static facts listed in a textbook, but that's only a small part of the story. Just as importantly, science is also a process of discovery that allows us to link isolated facts into coherent and comprehensive understandings of the natural world.

3) People all over the world participate in the process of science.

4) Science is a way of discovering what's in the universe and how those things work today, how they worked in the past, and how they are likely to work in the future. Scientists are motivated by the thrill of seeing or figuring out something that no one has before.

5) Science is continually refining and expanding our knowledge of the universe, and as it does, it leads to new questions for future investigation. Science will never be “finished”.

VI. Complete the table and translate the words.

Verb	Noun	Verb	Noun
measure	measurement	collect	collection
develop		discuss
involve		imagine
manage		illustrate
improve		express
move		identify
agree		classify
advertise		observe
employ		generalize
invest		found
pay		conclude
require		communicate
achieve		systematize
arrange		decide
argue		create

VII. What do they study? What is a science of...

... stars and galaxies? ... mind and behaviour? ... matter and motion?

....sight and light? ... wealth*?

... human past?... number, shape, quantity?

*(Wealth means goods and services transacted with the help of money)

VIII. Study the information given in the table.

	science	hypothesis	theory	experiment	result
definition	a system for organizing the knowledge about a particular subject	an idea or explanation of sth that is based on a few known facts but that has not yet been proved to be true or correct	a formal set of ideas that is intended to explain why sth happens or exists	a scientific test that is done in order to study what happens and to gain new knowledge	the information that you get from a scientific test or piece of research
verb +	study	form, formulate, have, make, propose, put forward, suggest, consider, discuss, examine, test (out), support, accept, reject	have, hold, advance, develop, formulate, propose, confirm, prove	carry out, conduct, do, perform, describe	get, have, receive, analyse, evaluate, publish, give
+ verb		concern, predict	evolve, suggest	confirm, demonstrate, illustrate, prove, show, fail	demonstrate, indicate, reveal, show, confirm
adj.	natural, physical, environmental, agricultural, medical, political, social, linguistic, applied	acceptable, working, scientific	complete, current, new, classical, scientific	animal, field, laboratory, medical, psychological, scientific, practical, simple, interesting, successful, unsuccessful	good, positive, preliminary, inevitable, surprising
phrases	the history of science, the laws of science, science and technology, the world of science		theory and practice, in theory	by experiment, experiment on, during the experiment	the result of the experiment

Learn the collocations by heart.