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6 March 2023 Read On Get your goggles on – it’s British Science Week again! AROUND BRITAIN To get more people interested in science, British Science Week offers events and ideas for fun experiments. mit Audiodatei By Franziska Lange 1 PLANTING YOURpants in soil might not seem like a very scientific thing to do, but it’s fun activities like this that make the yearly British Science Week so popular. “Plant your pants” is just one of the many events, experiments and activities which will be taking place from March 10 to 19 this year. 2 The aim of British Science Week is to spark interest in science, technology, engineering and maths – or STEM for short – in people of all ages. Anyone can organise an event: British Science Week has a platform so that people can find each other to do so, but most events take place in schools, libraries, museums, community centres and research institutions. 3 British Science Week has a special theme each year. This year it’s “Connections”. Those that take part can explore how technology connects people around the world, how all animals are connected in an ancient family tree, or how atoms connect to make up everything around us. Kids below the age of 14 can design a poster about this year’s theme, enter a competition and win prizes. 4 Schools often use the activity packs that can be downloaded for free from the website. These packs include experiments and research activities. They also combine science with other topics, such as art, history and politics. 5 This year, the activity packs on the website encourage you to do experiments like “plant your pants” so you can find out how tiny organisms in the soil work to decompose matter. You can also build your own barometer, find out what it takes to design a bridge that can be used for heavy loads, or extract DNA from a strawberry. 6 During British Science Week, teachers often invite STEM Ambassadors, people who work in science, to talk to pupils. Talking about their fields and what it’s like being a scientist, they 0 – 2 GOGGLES Schutzbrille — to plant s.th. in soil etw. einpflanzen — pants (BE) Unterhose(n) — to seem scheinen — scientific wissenschaftlich — to take place stattfinden — aim Ziel — to spark interest Interesse wecken — engineering Ingenieurwesen — community centre Gemeindezentrum — research Forschungs- 3 – 4 theme Motto — connection Verbindung — to take part teilnehmen — to explore erforschen, erkunden — ancient uralt — to make s.th. up etw. zusammensetzen — to enter a competition an einem Wettbewerb teilnehmen 5 – 6 to encourage animieren — tiny winzig — to decompose zersetzen — matter Substanz(en) — load Gewicht — to extract DNA DNA extrahieren — ambassador Botschafter(in) — scientist Wissenschaftler(in) — to bring s.th. to life (fig) h.: etw. lebendig vermitteln — career berufl. Laufbahn 7 – 8 British Science Association Britische Vereinigung zur Förderung der Wissenschaft — annual jährlich — the public die Öffentlichkeit — audience Teilnehmer(innen) — ultimate goal oberstes Ziel — after all schließlich | Photo: Getty Images can bring STEM subjects to life and might even inspire pupils to think of a career in science. 7 British Science Week is organised by the British Science Association. It started as an annual meeting where scientists came together to discuss their work and present it to the public. From there, it grew into a festival with events and activities for schools, families and community audiences. The first official Britain’s National Science Week was held in 1994. The name was later changed to what it is today. 8 The ultimate goal of the organisers is to get people interested in STEM for more than ten days. After all, the activity packs can be used all year for fun experiments, not just during British Science Week. You can find all of the activity packs on the British Science Week website: https://www.britishscienceweek.org/activity-packs/ m e s s e • Die Sprachzeitung • Wir freuen uns auf Sie! Treffpunkt: didacta 2023 in Stuttgart Halle 3, Stand A34 7. 3. – 11.03.2023 Feeling down? Do something nice for someone else SCIENCE • MENTAL HEALTH A study showed that being kind to others helped more than other therapies did. mit Audiodatei und By Siobhan Bruns 1 DOING SOMETHING nice for someone else not only brightens that person’s day – it also brightens yours. And if you’re really feeling down, it may help more than other types of therapy, a study says. 2 Researchers at Ohio State University interviewed a group of 122 adults with moderate or severe depression and anxiety and split them into three groups. 3 Two groups were asked to do things often used in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for depression and anxiety. 4 One CBT group was told to plan social activities two days a week. The other CBT group was asked to make notes about their negative thoughts at least twice a week and to write down ideas about what they could do to feel less depressed and anxious. 5 A third group was told to perform three acts of kindness a day, two days a week. Acts of kindness were defined as “big or small acts that benefit others or make others happy, typically at some cost to you in terms of time or resources”, the Ohio State News website says in an article about the study. 6 The acts of kindness those in the group later reported doing included baking cookies for friends, offering to give a friend a ride, and leaving sticky notes for roommates with words of encouragement. Übungsmaterial Performing acts of kindness, like baking cookies for a friend, helps those with depression and anxiety. | Photo: Getty Images 7 All 122 people in the study did what they were asked to do for five weeks and then were interviewed by the researchers again. The researchers then checked with the participants after another five weeks to see how they were feeling. 8 The researchers published what they had found in The Journal of Positive Psychology. All three groups reported greater life satisfaction and a reduction in depression and anxiety symptoms, but those who performed acts of kindness showed the most improvement. 9 Dr David Cregg of Ohio State University, who led the study, said: “Social connection is one of the ingredients of life most strongly associated with wellbeing. Performing acts of kindness seems to be one of the best ways to promote those connections.” 0 – 1 TO FEEL DOWN sich niedergeschlagen fühlen — mental health psychische Gesundheit — study Studie — kind nett — to brighten s.o.’s day (fig) jdm. etw. Gutes tun 2 – 4 researcher Forscher(in) — moderate mittelschwer — severe schwer — anxiety Angstzustände; innere Unruhe — to split (into) … aufteilen (in) … — cognitive behavioural therapy kognitive Verhaltenstherapie — twice zweimal — anxious besorgt; unruhig 5 – 6 to perform an act of k. eine gute Tat vollbringen — to benefit s.o. jdm. guttun — typically üblicherweise — at some cost h.: mit einigem Aufwand verbunden — in terms of … was … anbetrifft — resources Ressourcen; h.: Materielles; Geld — to report … von … berichten — to give s.o. a ride jdn. im Auto mitnehmen — sticky note Klebenotiz — roommate Mitbewohner(in) — encouragement Ermutigung 7 – 8 to check with s.o. (erneut) bei jdm. nachhaken — participant Teilnehmer(in) — to publish veröffentlichen — to find h.: herausfinden — journal Fachzeitschrift — life satisfaction Lebenszufriedenheit — reduction Verringerung — improvement Verbesserung 9 to lead leiten — social connection soziale Bindungen — ingredient Zutat; h.: Bestandteil — strongly stark — to associate s.th. with s.th. eine Sache mit etw. in Verbindung bringen — wellbeing Wohlbefinden — to promote unterstützen
Read On March 2023 70 Jahre 7 Old School | 1968 Machines that Talk and Walk 1 MACHINESseem to be getting more and more like people. You know what a COMPUTER is, don’t you? It is a machine that can add, subtract, multiply, and divide. It can solve a problem in a few minutes. It may take a man many years to figure out the same problem by himself. 2 Computers have “memory” devices: thousands of tiny parts inside the machine. But a computer cannot think for itself. A man has to tell it what to do and how to do it. He uses special cards or tapes to “feed” the machine with problems. Computers help figure out taxes, run machines in factories, predict the weather or election returns. They keep spacecraft on the right course. Some computers can even talk. “Optical scanners” can “read” numbers, printed words, or even handwriting. “Electric eyes” (tiny light beams) can pick out the differences in shapes of letters or numbers. 3 Reading machines can read zip code numbers on the mail in post-offices. Then the mail is automatically sorted. 4 Scientists are now working on a “pedipulator,” a walkingmachine. A man inside this machine, whose arms and legs will be strapped to small, movable controls, can move the machine’s “arms,” “hands,” and “legs.” The pedipulator may lift heavy materials, help build houses, dig tunnels, and unload lorries. A giant “walking lorry,” controlled by one man, will walk about and carry heavy materials across wide streams, through jungles, or over mountains. It will step over obstacles in its way. (AM.) – My Weekly Reader (adapted) GE (General Electric) developed the Pedipulator, or “Walking Truck,” for the U.S. Army in the 1960s. | Image: Popular Mechanics Magazine (1965) 0 – 1 TO SEEM scheinen — computer Elektronengehirn, Rechenmaschine — to subtract subtrahieren — to solve a problem h.: eine Rechenaufgabe lösen — to figure s.th. out (coll) etw. lösen, ausrechnen 2 memory device Speichervorrichtung, Informationsspeicher — tiny winzig — tape Band; h.: Lochstreifen — to feed (fig) füttern — taxes Steuern — to run a machine eine Maschine/einen Mechanismus bedienen, - in Gang halten — to predict voraussagen — election returns Wahlergebnisse — spacecraft Raumfahrzeug(e) — scanner Abtaster — printed gedruckt — light beam Lichtstrahl — to pick out ausmachen, erkennen — shape Form 3 – 4 zip code number Postleitzahl — scientist (Natur-)Wissenschaftler(in) — to strap to mit Riemen befestigen an — movable beweglich — control Lenk-, Steuervorrichtung — to lift heben — to dig graben — to unload entladen — lorry Lastwagen — giant riesig — stream Fluss, Strom — to step over hinwegtreten über, sich hinwegbewegen über — obstacle Hindernis New School | Today ChatGPT: The clever chatbot TECHNOLOGY • AI A new artificial intelligence chatbot can write detailed essays, making teachers worry. American English By Jessica Stuart 1 THE NAME “ChatGPT” has been trending across the internet for the past few months. What is ChatGPT? 2 “ChatGPT is like a super smart computer that can understand and respond to what you say in English. It can help you learn new words and phrases, and can also answer questions you have. Think of it like a talking dictionary that you can have a conversation with.” This explanation doesn’t come from a person. It comes from ChatGPT itself, an artificial intelligence chatbot that can respond to all types of questions and orders. 3 ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence research company that also created the popular image generator DALL-E 2. While DALL-E 2 can create digital art from written requests, ChatGPT can give you words, lots and lots of words. It can answer questions, tell jokes, find errors in a computer programmer’s code, and even write long and accurate essays. And that worries teachers. 4 Christian Terwiesch, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, announced in January that ChatGPT had passed the fi- nal exam for his school’s MBA program – something that can be difficult for a lot of human students. 5 For anyone interested in AI, this is exciting news. As New York Times reporter Kevin Roose says, ChatGPT is “the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public.” For teachers who want to stop students from cheating, though, ChatGPT is making their jobs harder. 6 The New York City Department of Education has now banned the chatbot from the city’s schools, saying it doesn’t “build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.” Some university professors are also changing the way they teach. One professor, Antony Aumann, told the Times that he’s now making students write first drafts of essays in class. 7 It’s unlikely that ChatGPT, which is backed by Microsoft and now used by thousands of people, will go away any time soon. But there is some hope for teachers: GPTZero. Created by Edward Tian, a computer science student at Princeton University, the app can tell you if the essay you received was written by a real person or by clever AI. 0 – 2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE(AI) chatbot Chatbot mit künstlicher Intelligenz — detailed detailliert — essay Aufsatz — to respond to s.th. auf etw. reagieren — phrase Ausdruck — explanation Erklärung — order Anweisung 3 to create entwickeln; s.w.u. erstellen — research company Forschungsunternehmen — image generator Bildgenerator — request Anfrage — error Fehler — programmer Programmierer(in) — accurate fehlerfrei 4 School of Business Fakultät der Wirtschaftswissenschaften — to announce bekannt geben — MBA = Master of Business Administration M. in Betriebswirtschaft — program Studiengang — human menschlich 5 – 7 to release s.th. to the general public etw. der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich machen — to cheat schummeln — though allerdings — Department of Education Bildungsministerium — to ban verbieten — to build h.: fördern — criticalthinking and problem-solving skills Kompetenzen in den Bereichen kritisches Denken und Problemlösung — draft Entwurf — unlikely unwahr scheinlich — to back s.o./s.th. jdn./etw. (finanziell) unterstützen — computer science Informatik The computer room at Tetley’s Brewery in England, 1968. ChatGPT is a type of artificial intelligence technology that uses natural language processing and machine learning to generate human-like conversations. | Photos: Getty Images 70 Jahre easy English, aus unserer Redaktion, jeden Monat neu!
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