TEST
CHILDREN’S ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS
SARAH:
Hello. Children’s Engineering Workshops.
FATHER:
Oh hello. I wanted some information about the workshops in the school holidays.
SARAH: Sure.
FATHER:
I have two daughters who are interested. The younger one’s Lydia, she’s four – do you take
children as young as that?
SARAH:
Yes, our Tiny Engineers workshop is for four to five-year-olds.
FATHER:
What sorts of activities do they do?
SARAH:
All sorts. For example, they work together to design a special cover that goes round an
egg
Q1
, so that when it’s inside they can drop it from a height and it doesn’t break. Well,
sometimes it does break but that’s part of the fun!
FATHER:
Right. And Lydia loves building things. Is there any opportunity for her to do that?
SARAH:
Well, they have a competition to see who can make the highest
tower
Q2
. You’d be amazed
how high they can go.
FATHER: Right.
SARAH:
But they’re learning all the time as well as having fun. For example, one thing they do is
to design and build a
car
Q3
that’s attached to a balloon, and the force of the air in that
actually powers the car and makes it move along. They go really fast too.
FATHER:
OK, well, all this sounds perfect.
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FATHER:
Now Carly, that’s my older daughter, has just had her seventh birthday, so presumably she’d
be in a different group?
SARAH:
Yes, she’d be in the Junior Engineers. That’s for children from six to eight.
FATHER:
And do they do the same sorts of activities?
SARAH:
Some are the same, but a bit more advanced. So they work out how to build model vehicles,
things like cars and trucks, but also how to construct
