Universidad De Antofagasta

UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA
INGLES INSTRUMENTAL
DEPARTAMENTO DE EDUCACION.


UNIT 1: MATTER AND ENERGY


A. WORD STUDY SECTION

Consult your teacher or a dictionary if you don’t know the
meaning or the pronunciation of thefollowing words.

A.1 A.2 A.3 A.4
NOUNS VERBS ADJECTIVES TWO-FUNCTION
WORDS

matter sense burn easy rust (vb-n)
space taste bear hard burn (vb-n)
weight odor sourentire shape (vb-n)
steel lack chop soft change (vb-n)
steam break heat (vb-n)
ice melt cool (vb-n)
coal fill
undergo


A.5 Complete these sentences with words fromthe list


01. To travel in ................ can be very difficult for man.
02. The law of conservation of ............ is an essential principle in science.
03. Antarctica isa mass of land covered with ...............
04. In engineering it is essential to protect metal structures from .............
05. The ice in glaciers ............... in the summer06. The combustion gases are separated from the ................ by the boiler-tube walls.
07. The internal-combustion engine is another form of ............. engine.
08. A diamondis a very ............ rock.
09. Vision is one of our most important ...............

A.6

Matter: Something that occupies space, can be perceived by one or more
senses, andconstitutes any physical body, or the universe, as a
whole.
Energy: The work that a physical system can do in changing from one
state into another.




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B. READINGPASSAGE : MATTER AND ENERGY

Matter is something that occupies space and has weight. A substance is a special kind of matter which can be easily distinguished from other kind of matter. Thus water,...