A New Building Method Uses Origami to Fold Metal Structures
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists at MIT made a new building way.
- A2
Scientists at MIT and partner universities created a new building method.
- B1
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and partner universities have created a new construction method.
- B2
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and partner universities have created a new construction method based on origami.
- C1
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and partner universities, researchers have developed a construction system based on origami, the art of folding flat sheets into three-dimensional shapes.
- C2
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and partner universities, researchers have developed an origami-based construction system.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- fold
- to bend something flat so that one part of it lies on top of another part
- calculate
- to find a number or amount by using mathematics
- stiff
- firm and hard, and not easy to bend
- frame
- the basic structure of a building or object that holds it together and gives it shape
- support
- something that holds the weight of an object and stops it from falling
- sculpture
- a piece of art that is made in three dimensions from stone, metal, wood, or another material
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.