- •I. Read the text
- •1 . Here is a crossword. Guess the meanings of the words with the help of their definitions
- •Unit III. New computer art mirrors viewer’s mood
- •Warm-up
- •2. Talk about how important your computer is to you. How does it help you in your life? What things do you like doing with it? What other fields of computers’ applications do you know?
- •I. Read the text
- •II. Comprehension check
- •1. Read the article and say whether these sentences are true (t) or false (f)
- •2. Answer the following questions
- •IV. Listening
- •1. Listen to your teacher reading and fill in the spaces
- •V. Grammar Focus: Modal Verbs
- •1. Find the examples of modal verbs in the text. What other modal verbs do you know? Revise modal verbs with your groupmates and your teacher
- •2. Choose the best variant
- •3. Translate the sentences paying attention to the meanings of modal verbs and infinitives used with them
- •4. Insert a suitable modal verb in the right form
- •VI. Discussion
- •4. Discuss the following topics
- •Homework
- •I. Read the text
- •I. Read the text
- •Unit VI. Computers 'to match man by 2029'
- •I . Read the text
- •Unit VII. Artificial Brain
- •Warm-up
- •2. Read the title of the text and try to predict which words/word combinations can be found here. After reading the text see who is the best predictor
- •I . Read the text
- •II. Comprehension check
- •1. Answer the questions
- •1. Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text
- •III. Listening: Listen and fill in the gaps.
- •2. Team work: Students a strongly believe creating an artificial brain is a good thing; Students b strongly believe the opposite
- •2. Discuss these opinions with your partner(s)
- •I. Read the text
- •1. Say whether these sentences are true (t) or false (f)
- •5. Put the words into the gaps in the text
- •1. Make a report about the pros and cons of cloning. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson
- •2. Imagine that you have a clone. Your clone is 15 years old. Write your diary entry for one day you spent with him/her Unit 9. Television shoes
- •III. Vocabulary
- •1. Insert an appropriate word or phrase from the text
- •4. With different partners have these fun 2-minute debates. Your teacher will time you and tell you to change partners
- •1. Write an imaginary article for a fashion magazine. Explain in the article what the future of fashion will look like and how the function of our clothes will change.
- •2. Imagine you are a child. Write a letter to the children’s newspaper to tell people what you think of this new invention
- •I. Read the text
- •I. Comprehension check
- •1. Say whether these sentences are true (t) or false (f)
- •2. Look through the text and find the sentence proving that
- •3. Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible)
- •4. Write 1-2 questions and ask them your groupmates
- •I II. Vocabulary
- •1. Here is a crossword. Have fun
- •1. While listening, delete five incorrect words from the ten in bold in each paragraph. In pairs / groups, think of better words to replace them
- •V. Discussion
- •1. Discuss these opinions with your partner(s). Do you agree with them?
- •2. Answer the following questions
- •1. Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word
- •2. Write your opinion about the Stealth Text technology Texts for supplementary reading
- •Text 2. Human noise pollution a danger to sea life
- •Text 5. New Warnings For Video Games
- •Text 6. Microsoft Launches Bing Decision Engine
- •Text 7. Eu warns of hidden ringtone charges
- •Text 9. Scientists use windows to trap solar energy
- •Text 10. Scientists test WiTricity – Wireless Electricity
- •Список используемой литературы
- •Оглавление
- •Unit VIII. Cloned dogs in training to sniff for drugs ………47
- •Unit X. Self-destructing mobile phone messages …………...60
4. With different partners have these fun 2-minute debates. Your teacher will time you and tell you to change partners
Children should exercise for 6 hours a day. vs. That’s too long.
Children should not be allowed to have a TV in their bedrooms. vs. Bad idea.
TV is educational. vs. TV damages young minds.
V. Grammar Focus: Complex Subject
1. Remember what you know about Complex Subject
2. Translate the following sentence paying attention to the infinitives used with the Complex Subject construction. Note that there are sentences without Complex Subject
a. It is said that he works 16 hours a day.
b. You are not supposed to park here. It’s for private parking only.
c. The company is known to have lost a lot of money due to the crisis.
d. The weather is expected to become better on Monday.
e. I expect my friends to make a surprise on my birthday.
f. Ivan is having a blind date. The girl is believed to be wearing jeans and a white T-shirt.
g. This door is a fire exit. It’s supposed not to be blocked.
h. Heavy rains are reported to have caused a flood.
i. Peter the Great is known for his progressive policy.
j. It is said that there is a secret tunnel between these two houses.
k. Angelina Jolly is known to have several adopted children.
l. I know Arthur to take part in street racings.
3. Write the sentences in another way, beginning as shown
a. The new shoes will reduce how much TV kids watch. (to expect)
New shoes are expected to reduce how much TV kids watch.
b. A British student has made an amazing invention. (to report)
A British student ____________________________________________
c. The technology will mean healthier lifestyles for children. (to suppose)
The technology____________________________________________
d. Children have to wear television shoes all day long. (to expect)
Chidren___________________________________________________
e. Modern Britains suffer from weight problems. (to know)
__________________________________________________________
f. She has included a lot of exercise in her daily routine. (to say)
_________________________________________________________
4. Make up your own sentences to illustrate the Complex Subject construction
HOMEWORK
1. Write an imaginary article for a fashion magazine. Explain in the article what the future of fashion will look like and how the function of our clothes will change.
2. Imagine you are a child. Write a letter to the children’s newspaper to tell people what you think of this new invention
Unit 10. Self-destructing mobile phone messages
Useful words and phrases
to launch - начинать, разрабатывать, развивать
to destroy - разрушать
to stay secret - оставаться тайной
a subscriber - (зд.) пользователь
to appeal - нравиться
a cheat - обманщик, мошенник
to erase – стирать, вычеркивать. уничтожать
WARM-UPS
1. Are there lots of secrets in your e-mails? In pairs / groups, discuss the kinds of things or information you (or others) might want to self-destruct when writing to the following people:
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2. In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words are most interesting and which are most boring. Have a chat about the topics you liked
Hi-tech / text messages / secrets / mobile phones / Internet links / software information / business people / love cheats / 007 / David Beckham / 40 seconds