Hands across the Oceans

162 IELTS Pilot Project – Possible Topics for Presentations

I Introduction

You will find useful information about presentations in the following links:

http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_/browse.html

http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_4/Homework_Starters.html#tcsel

Homework starters

http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_701538500/Science_Experiment_Oral_Presentation.html

Science experiment oral presentation

http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_701509750/Science_Fair_Project.html

Science fair project

II Presentations Based on Answering Questions

1 Is the weather worse than it used to be?

2 Can cars actually run on hydrogen cells

3 Does smell weigh anything?

4 Do we really use only 10% of our brain?

5 Artificial diamonds

6 Creating clouds

7 How do animals know when a storm is approaching?

8 Why is the moon larger when it’s close to the horizon?

9 How does a microwave oven work?

10 Swine flu

11 Lie detectors

12 Food can make us smarter

13 Boomerangs

14 The bends

15 UFOs

16 Aliens

17 The moon and tides

18 Why children have more allergies now than in the past

19 Likelihood of extraterrestrial life

20 Penicillin

21 Why do leaves change color and fall in the autumn?

22 Why do we blush?

23 Why do we have fingernails?

24 Why do we yawn?

III Other Topics

1  The scientific method

2  A history of science

3  UFOs

4  Alien abduction

5  The Bermuda Triangle

6  Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the 17^th century

7  The influence of Moslem scientists and philosophers on the modern world

8  Scientific controversies

9  Web 2.0

10 Space lab

11 Development of space travel

12 Development of World Wide Web

13 CERN

14 Aral Sea

15 Arabian Gulf

16 Endangered species in Arabia

17 Development of Dubai

18 Refugees

19 Water and Middle Eastern countries

20 Ancient monuments in the Middle East

21 The Nazca Lines

22 Strange insects

23 History of mathematics

24 Climate change, energy and transportation

25 Genetic testing

26 Human genome

27 Black holes

28 Gravity

29 Money

30 Coastal and marine ecosystems

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