- •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
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
A hi-tech company in the U.K. has lunched a text messaging service that automatically destroys e-mails 40 seconds after people open them. This should be populated with anyone who wants secrets to stay secret. Subscribers have to download an application called StealthText to their mobile phone to use the service. The software’s developer Staellium UK hopes its product will appeal to both business people who heal with sensitive information and love chats. A representative said the company wants to give e-mail senders more control over the massages they send instead of trusting recipients to delay them.
The technology books like something from a 007 movie. Staellium CEO Carole Barnum said the new service has “massive benefits for people from all walks of lifetime”. She also said: “Ultimately, no one will have to sorry about their messages or pictures ending up in the wrong feet ever again.” Staellium’s website suggests soccer superstar David Beckham might need SteathText. His friend Rebecca Loos suspiciously failed to delete his embarrassing mails last year. StealthText messages are not totally erased, but say on a special computer. However, the recipient has no further access to them after 40 seconds.
V. Discussion
1. Discuss these opinions with your partner(s). Do you agree with them?
There should be self-destruct buttons for spam – before it reaches my phone.
I will definitely use the new StealthText service.
What if the recipient saves the message? It doesn’t destruct then!
People shouldn’t send messages they might regret later.
The world is becoming too secretive. There is too much suspicion.
I don’t care who knows my secrets. I have nothing to hide.
What happens if it’s a really long message that takes 80 seconds to read?!!?
2. Answer the following questions
What do you think of the idea of “self-destructing” mail?
Do you think you’ll be using the service?
How often do you send mail that you would not want other people to read or that might end up in the wrong hands?
Do you worry about privacy on the Internet?
What do you think of the fact that the world’s intelligence services can read all of your mail?
Would you get angry about mails you receive disappearing after 40 seconds?
Would you trust your partner if they started sending you StealthText messages?
Who do you think will benefit most from StealthText?
Did you like reading this article?
3. Talk to you partner(s) about the people you would and would not give information to and why?
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FRIEND |
BOSS |
COLLEAGUE |
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Creidt card PIN number |
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Biggest secret |
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Most shameful experience |
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Salary |
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Details of past romances |
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VI. Grammar Focus: General revision
1. Correct mistakes if there are any
a. There is somebody behind us. I think we are being followed.
b. The firemen told everybody leave the building.
c. Michael has succeeded in pass all exams this summer.
d. I need paper to make notes. Could you get me some?
e. If we had caught the 10.30 train, we would have arrived in time.
f. I would like you to come to us tonight.
g. She is not working tomorrow, so she musn’t get up early.
h. The thieves are believed to have got into through the kitchen.
i. The speed limit is 30 miles an hour. You shouldn’t have drive 50 miles here.
j. How often do you go to the swimming pool? - I try to do it regularly.
k. He is out of town at present. He may be back soon.
l. I wish I knew her number. I would call her.
m. The company is not independent. It owned by a larger company.
n. Robert is known be a champion.
o. I have been living in Ufa since I was born.
p. Mother watching her children play in the yard.
r. I like to be more high and strong.
q. People studying in our university are supposed to become highly qualified specialist.
s. You are in the art gallery. You needn’t touch pictures.
t. The office manager had alreedy typed the documents. I’ll take them to signing.
2. Choose the topic (e.g. message, telephone, communication, etc) and make sentences using the required grammar constructions)
a. Active voice (any tense)____________________________________
b. Passive voice (any tense) ___________________________________
c. Modal verb ______________________________________________
d. Modal verb+Passive construction_____________________________
e. Participle I or Gerund ______________________________________
f. Complex Subject __________________________________________
g. Complex Object __________________________________________
h. Comparison of adjectives ___________________________________
HOMEWORK