2 Read the following short story and conjugate the verbs in the suitable tense form.

John ……….. (always travel) a lot. In fact, he ……….. (be) only two years old when he first ……….. (fly) to the US. His mother ……….. (be) Italian and his father ………… (be) American. John ……….. (be) born in France, but his parents ………… (meet) in Cologne, Germany after they ……….. (live) there for five years. They ……….. (meet) one day while John's father ……….. (read) a book in the library and his mother ……….. (sit down) beside him. Anyway, John ………… (travel) a lot because his parents also ………. (travel) a lot. As a matter of fact, John ……….. (visit) his parents in France at the moment. He ………. (live) in New York now, but ………. (visit) his parents for the past few weeks. He really ………. (enjoy) living in New York, but he also ……….. (love) coming to visit his parents at least once a year. This year ………. (fly) over 50,000 miles for his job. He …………. (work) for Jackson & Co. for almost two years now. He ………. (be) pretty sure that he ……….. (work) for them next year as well. His job ……….. (require) a lot of travel. In fact, by the end of this year, he ………… over 120,000 miles! His next journey ……….. (be) to Australia. He really ………. (not like) going to Australia because it is so far. This time he ……….. (fly) from Paris after a meeting with the company's French partner. He ………. for over 18 hours by the time he ……….. (arrive)! John ………. (talking) with his parents earlier this evening when his girlfriend from New York ……….. (telephone) to let him know that Jackson & Co. ……….. (decide) to merge with a company in Australia. The two companies ……….. (negotiate) for the past month, so it really ……….. (not be) much of a surprise. Of course, this ……….. (mean) that John ………. (have to catch) the next plane back to New York. He ………. with his boss at this time tomorrow.

[12] Beare K. English Tense Review for Advanced Level Learners, 2014

3 Find an example of an authentic text about science or education, highlight the tenses used their, identify them, then delete and prepare a grammar task on tenses. In class swap the tasks and practice the usage of tenses.

4 Create your own story related to science and/or education, using all the tenses in the Active and Passive Voice.

INFORMATION-ACCUMULATION: LISTENING

1 Lead-in: Answer the following questions and create an association map of the concept.

1. What is information society?

2. What characteristic features of information society can you name? [13]

2 Listen to the text and speak about its main idea.

3 Listen to the text about the information society and complete the gaps with suitable information.

• (1) ……………., and (2) ……………….. are making the world smaller and faster.

• The growth in telecommunications leads to starting a real (3) ………………… .

• Around the world, there are people who don’t understand the language that (4) ……………… of the information is written in.

• The contrast between countries that have information technology and those that don’t have is called (5) ………………. .

• The United Nations aims at making the information society a (6) ……………… for more of the developing world.

• In the nearest future the United Nations plans to provide 50% of the world’s population with (7) ……………… from educational institutions, health and cultural centres.

• The United Nations’ idea about information society has some (8) ……………… .

• The cyber cities are situated in (9) ……………….. .

• The domain name system (DNS) does not control (10) ……………….