Read the summary of the text above. Put the words (on the right) into the gaps (on the left).

Scientists have made the smallest electric motor (1) ____________ created. It is a feat of scientific (2) ____________ that most of us could never even try to understand. Dr. Charles Sykes and his team from America’s Tufts University created the motor from a single molecule (3) ____________ a billionth of a metre wide. Dr Sykes is in (4) ____________ with the Guinness Book of World Records to have his motor recognized as the smallest ever. The current world-record (5) ____________ is a 200-nanometre-long nano-tube made from carbon. Dr Sykes’ creation is an (6) ____________ 200 times smaller. Naturally, the researchers hope their creation has uses for (7) ____________. It will be used to power the tiniest machines ever built, and be used by doctors in nano-surgery and (8) ____________ surgery.

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It is the first time an electric motor has been made from a single molecule. Scientists can make molecules (9) ____________ energy from light and chemical (10) ____________ into movement, but Dr Sykes’ invention is the first to be (11) ____________ as a motor – something that can continually generate power. There is some (12) ____________ -boggling science behind Sykes’ device. A combination of chemicals and metals produces the miniscule motor that (13) ____________ 50 times a second. Dr Sykes was excited about the future of his (14) ____________, saying: “The next thing to do is to get the thing to do work that we can (15) ____________ - to it to other molecules, lining them up next to one another so they’re like miniature (16) ____________-wheels.”

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(From breakingnewsenglish.com)

Search the Internet and find out more about Dr Sykes’ nanotechnology device. Share what you discover with your partner. Make a presentation about nanotechnology. (See Appendix 1)

Answer the questions.

1. How do you think scientists can work with and make things that are a billionth of a metre wide?

2. What is nanotechnology? Do you know of any examples of it

3. What uses do you think the motor will have for mankind?

4. When do you think nanotechnology will be a widely used part of our life?

5. Do you think it’s possible to get smaller than nano?

6. How might nanotechnology change things like computers and iPads?

Make a summary of the texts. (See Appendix 4)

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The world's smallest electric motor	\|	Text A. Russian mathematician receives the 2014 Abel Prize (1,800 characters).

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