3. Study the following chart: The Passive Voice

Tenses in Passive Voice	Structures	Examples
Present Simple	am/is/are +V3	Inventions are made in different countries
Present Progressive	am/is/are +being +V3	An experiment is being made in here.
Past Simple	was/were+ V3	Dynamite was discovered by Alfred Nobel in 1867.
Past Progressive	was/were+ being+V3	While T. Edison was experimenting with his apparatus he was being watched by his assistants.
Present Perfect	have/has been +V3	A lot of inventions have been made by the end of the 20th century.
Past Perfect	had been+V3	The first gas stove have been made long before the first electric stove appeared.
Future Simple	will be +V3	Soon computers will be used in most institutions.
Future Perfect	will have been+V3	By next year this program will have been developed

4. Make up your own sentences using this chart as a model and verbs from the box.

5. Read and translate the texts about British inventors:

Michael Faraday is the inventor of the electric motor. Without this, we would not have the technological appliances we take for granted today. Faraday’s face used to be on the British twenty pounds note from 1991 to 2001.

George Stephenson designed a steam train locomotive called the “Rocket”. It was a great success and encouraged the growing of railways, which played a very important part in the Industrial Revolution in the late 18^th and 19^th centuries. Many of the items we use today were invented during that time.

Charles Babbage is considered by most to be the “Father of Computing”. By 1834, he had invented the “analytical engine” which established the basic principles of computing. Although he never completed any of his computing machines, he detailed drawings were used to build a model of his Difference Engine №2 at the London Science Museum. It was completed in 1991, and it performed mathematical calculations very accurately..

6. A) Find the examples of the Passive Voice in the text.

b) Define what tenses are used.

7.Project Work: Make up a presentation about famous inventions and inventors. Use these questions:

1. Who is the inventor?

2. What country is he\she from?

3. What did he\she invented?

4. When was it?

5. Do people still use it?

6. Do you use this invention?

Unit 3.New Technologies

1. Answer the questions and make a word map:

1) What new technologies can you name?

2) What new technologies do you use?

3) What new technologies would you like to have?

2. Here are some of the modern inventions that are used in everyday life.

a) Match items in column A with phrases in column B and make sentences.

Ex: People use a sewing machine to sew and to do embroidery.

b) Work in pairs. Ask and answer the question: Why do people use……..?

A	B
What gadgets & machines do people use?	Why do people use them?
a camera	to wake up people and to tell the time
a microwave oven	to watch pre-recorded videos
a mobile telephone	to have fun and to entertain
an electronic game	to use different programs, print, documents, listen to the music, watch films, use Internet
a video recorder/ player	to operate the TV set from a distance
a TV set	to orient in the unknown place and to use maps
a vacuum cleaner	to cook, defrost, reheat pre-prepared food
a talking alarm clock	to entertain, to watch films and news
a computer	to work with different programs, to use the Internet everywhere you like
a TV remote-control unit	to take photos
a laptop	to clean, to vacuum dust
a GPS navigator	to make calls, to send text and media messages, to use the Internet