(Supplementary Materials for Specific Textbooks--Q: Skills for Success: Listening and Speaking 5)
90 Second Listening: docs, pub
1. What university do the events take place at?
2. When does the climax of many outreach programs occur?
What does it occur with?
3. During the week-long celebration of science, what kind of atmosphere do the university buildings take on?
4. Which departments get together during this amazing week?
5. What is the largest public event that the university runs every year?
How many visitors come to all of the events?
6. Which materials are mixed together in the project called “Crash, Bang, Squelch!”?
When you mix these materials together, what kind of material do you get?
7. What is the serious point behind “Crash, Bang, Squelch!”
Report 1
Narrator: The climax of many outreach programs run by the University of Cambridge occurs in March each year with a science festival. Sober university buildings take on a carnival atmosphere in a week-long celebration of science.
Nicola Buckley: It’s a unique chance for all the scientific, mathematical, engineering departments to get together and put on this amazing week of activities for kids and adults. And you’ve never seen anything like it with all of these quite staid university buildings being sort of overrun by children that week, and it’s just a chance to open the doors and interest people in science, really. The science festival is a very large event at the university. It’s the largest public event we run each year. We record over 45,000 visits to all of the events. The atmosphere on the Science on Saturday is absolutely fantastic.
Narrator: This experiment is part of a project called “Crash, Bang, Squelch!” By mixing corn flour and water, you get a material that can both be a liquid and a solid at the same time. It’s strange, and fun to play with, but there is a serious point. It might cause a child to begin to think differently about the materials of everyday life.
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