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    The document provides information about designing plastic chairs: 1) It describes the process of making a plastic chair, from computer modeling and design, to creating molds, manufacturing using mass production techniques, and testing the final products. 2) Key terms related to design and manufacturing are defined, such as ergonomics, granule, life-size, and plastic. 3) Questions at the end prompt discussion of chair design considerations and what factors are important to consumers when choosing furniture.

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    UNITS

    5–6 CLIL teacher’s notes

    Design technology WARMER


    VOCABULARY FOCUS Ask students to look around the classroom
    and count up how many different types of
    cool [v]: to become colder furniture they can see. Write them on the
    data [n]: information for making calculations board, and then brainstorm as a class a list
    of all the different types of furniture they
    designer [n]: someone whose job is to know, at school and at home.
    decide how to make things

    ergonomics [n]: the way that furniture is Students quickly read the text and answer
    1 
    designed so that it is comfortable and easy the question.
    to use Answer
    factory [n]: a building where machines The text is about the plastic chair.
    make things Before reading the text again, write the
    granule [n]: a small hard piece of something words in the Vocabulary focus box on
    the board and ask students to find them
    life-size [adj]: something that is the same in the text. Pre-teach some of the more
    size as the real thing complex words if necessary.

    mass-produced [adj]: made in large 2 S


     tudents read the text again in detail and
    quantities by machines circle the correct alternative. When students
    have finished, elicit the answers as a class.
    measurement [n]: the exact size of
    something in numbers Answers
    1 the same 2 comfortable 3 can 4 metal 5 hot
    melt [v]: to become liquid
    3 F ocus the students’ attention on the
    metal [n]: a hard material that exists
    sentences and ask them to scan the text to
    naturally in the ground
    find which stage in the process of making
    model [n]: a copy of something the chair each sentence refers to. They
    then write the stage. With less confident
    mould [n]: a shaped container into which students, ask them to work in pairs to
    you pour a liquid that becomes solid in the choose the answers. With stronger or more
    shape of the container confident students, ask them to work in
    pairs and do the activity without looking
    plastic [n/adj]: a common light and strong
    back at the text, trying to remember each
    material that is made from chemicals
    stage. They can then check their answers in
    shape [n]: the outer form of something the text before checking as a class.

    sketch [n]: a drawing Answers


    1 mould 2 testing 3 computer modelling
    structure [n]: the way in which something
    4 design 5 manufacture
    is arranged
    4 In pairs, students discuss the questions. With
    a less confident class, you could brainstorm
    ideas together first and write them on the
    board. Elicit answers from the class. For
    question 2, you can do a class survey to find
    out which factors are most important and
    write the results on the board.

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