2. Warm-up: Materials and Their Properties

How many materials do you know? Can you list their properties? Test yourself by completing this crossword puzzle. Then focus on plastic only. What do you think: what is the future of plastics? Do you think they will be used in the future? What will happen after crude oil deposits are depleted? Answer these questions in this forum. Finally, practise your speed reading by finding answers to these questions. You should first find the correct text in your coursebook (Bonamy, D. (2011). Technical English Level 3 Coursebook. Pearson Longman, p.117), scan the text and find the answers as quickly as possible because the task has a time limit set.