Angličtina pro matematiky I
Course materials and homework week VII.
379 University Life
Miki talks about her university.
Pre-listening, discuss with your neighbour.
a) Name some famous American universities.
b) What is multi-culturalism? How can universities be multi-cultural?
c) Who is a nobel laureate?
d) What is scientific engineering?
e) Do you think that students at universities in this country or Slovakia are generally interested in politics?
Listen and answer the Qs.
1. Which university did Miki attend? …………………………………………….
2. Why is the university famous? ………………………………………………..
3. Which natural beauties did she mention?……………………………………
4. Chat happened there during World War II? ………………………………..
5. Where was she living in the first year? ……………………………………..
6. What are co-ops?........................................................................................
7. Where was she working during her studies?.............................................
Listen again and fill in the missing words.
Todd: Miki, you went to UC Berkeley, a very famous university in the U.S. What is your university like? Why is it famous?
Miki: Why is it famous? Well, I suppose historically it's kind of famous, recent history, because it was a center for the freedom of 1 ……….. movement in the 1960's and the civil rights movement, and it's pretty much where multi-culturalism, feminist studies and those sorts of so called liberal political movements were born and they're still quite strong today on campus and so students kind of get drawn to that, the political aspect of it I suppose, also the, it's a research university and it 2 ……… nobel laureates, very famous professors, at the top of their field, it's also quite a beautiful campus, I love the campus, it's not, it's not, how do you say?
Todd: It's not like maybe a college town, or?
Miki: Ah, no, it's not really a college town, of course, because it's right smack in the middle of a metropolitan area which is the Bay Area, and just right across the bay from San Francisco. The 3 …………….. is quite beautiful. There's the ocean to the west. There are mountains to the east and just beautiful 4 ……….. sunsets going down into the Golden Gate. The natural scenery is just beautiful, and the architecture of the campus is quite beautiful too, and apparently during the war, World War II, a number of tests were done on campus in terms of 5 ……………… floral species with each other, and so you have firs next to 6 ……. which is a strange combination. The idea was would they kill each other.
Todd: Oh, Wow! That's awful!
Miki: Yeah, no, so there's some scientific engineering going on on campus.
Todd: But the trees survived?
Miki: Yes, as a 7……………….
Todd: Well, that's good. You can't fool nature.
Miki: No. no, but it is a beautiful campus, and I went there for four years as an undergrad. I lived in the dormitory for the first year and I lived in the co-ops from the second through the fourth year and the co-ops are kind of a housing community that's owned by students, it's run by students and is there for quite cheap so it attracts poor students who work, while they go to school at the same time, and that's who I was. I worked at a restaurant, I worked at a sandwich shop, I worked at a toy store, I worked as a secretary to 8 …………….. school and lived quite cheaply in these co-ops which 9 ……………. also had marvelous parties and almost every weekend there was some party somewhere that one of these co-ops was putting on, and it was really wonderful.
Todd: Wow! 10 …………. like a good time.
Miki: Yeah!
Listen again and fill in the missing words.
Todd: Miki, you went to UC Berkeley, a very famous university in the U.S. What is your university like? Why is it famous?
Miki: Why is it famous? Well, I suppose historically it's kind of famous, recent history, because it was a center for the freedom of speech movement in the 1960's and the civil rights movement, and it's pretty much where multi-culturalism, feminist studies and those sorts of so called liberal political movements were born and they're still quite strong today on campus and so students kind of get drawn to that, the political aspect of it I suppose, also the, it's a research university and it attracts nobel laureates, very famous professors, at the top of their field, it's also quite a beautiful campus, I love the campus, it's not, it's not, how do you say?
Todd: It's not like maybe a college town, or?
Miki: Ah, no, it's not really a college town, of course, because it's right smack in the middle of a metropolitan area which is the Bay Area, and just right across the bay from San Francisco. The natural scenery is quite beautiful. There's the ocean to the west. There are mountains to the east and just beautiful gorgeous sunsets going down into the Golden Gate. The natural scenery is just beautiful, and the architecture of the campus is quite beautiful too, and apparently during the war, World War II, a number of tests were done on campus in terms of integrating floral species with each other, and so you have firs next to cedar which is a strange combination. The idea was would they kill each other.
Todd: Oh, Wow! That's awful!
Miki: Yeah, no, so there's some scientific engineering going on campus.
Todd: But the trees survived?
Miki: Yes, as a matter of fact.
Todd: Well, that's good. You can't fool nature.
Miki: No. no, but it is a beautiful campus, and I went there for four years as an undergrad. I lived in the dormitory for the first year and I lived in the co-ops from the second through the fourth year and the co-ops are kind of a housing community that's owned by students, it's run by students and is there for quite cheap so it attracts poor students who work, while they go to school at the same time, and that's who I was. I worked at a restaurant, I worked at a sandwich shop, I worked at a toy store, I worked as a secretary to put myself through school and lived quite cheaply in these co-ops which incidentally also had marvelous parties and almost every weekend there was some party somewhere that one of these co-ops was putting on, and it was really wonderful.
Todd: Wow! Sounds like a good time.
Miki: Yeah!
Math Made Easy Finding the Volume of a Cone
How do you calculate the volume of a cone?
Listen and answer these questions.
1) What happens when the ice-cream clerk is generous?
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2) What can happen to the cone when you put in too much ice-cream?
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3) What is the name of the space inside the cone?
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4) Which parts of the cone are circular?
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5) What is r, how do you get it?
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6) What is h and how can you measure it?
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7) What kind of a number is ?
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8) What do you do with the fraction?
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9) What are the units of measure for this cone?
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10) Why do you have to put 3 at the end of the solution?
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