TecE 1 / 1119 K10 Note 2

1. Read the following text about iron and steel:
Vocabulary box:

1.1 Please answer the following questions on the text:
a) Which elements do most magnets contain?
b) What are the advantages of iron?
c) Where do we use steel?
d) What must we do to make iron really hard?

1.2 Find one English word in the text which means the same as the phrases below.
Example: of great value = important
a) at the present =
b) to include/to comprise =
c) to be able to attract =
d) benefit/superiority =
e) used in building =
f) to form =
2. Introduce yourself to your tutor. Please write about your personal
background, qualifications and your job (between 100 and 150
words).

3. Put the following sentences into the simple past tense:
a) Large amounts of hydrogen are used in industry.
b) It forms a colourless, odourless gas.
c) The chemical industry takes many kinds of raw materials and turns
them into useful products.
d) We build in a catalyst.
e) When do you work in the laboratory?
f) He reads the reports.
g) The technician does not always measure all the parameters.
h) They show me the new tools and tell me about their advantages