After reading activity

Task 5. Answer the following question:

1. What do you think about future gadgets?

2. What improvements would you like to see?

3. What is your favorite gadget? Why do you like it?

4. What will lead to miniaturization?

5. What will bring integration of all applications into one gadget?

6. What can`t we really predict about future gadgets?

7. What new application would you like to have in your gadgets?

8. What can we expect from the gadgets in the near future?

Task 6. Decide which of the following statements are true (T) or false (F):

1. In future, technologies will extend and improve people’s lives with the progress in medicine.

2. Probably, future gadgets would be faster and more sophisticated.

3. Over the last few decades scientists developed a lot of smart military equipment.

4. New gadgets will use less energy with the use of eco-friendly materials.

5. A lot of new programs will be applied in future devices.

6. One small gadget will contain as much as possible interesting applets.

1	2	3	4	5	6
T	T	T	T	T	T
F	F	F	F	F	F

Task 7. Match the English words and word combinations from the column A with their Ukrainian equivalents from the column B:

A	B
a gadget to improve to offer obviously eco-friendly materials LCD LED a touchpad control to advance to envisage	екологічно безпечні матеріали уявляти, передбачати світлодіод сенсорна панель управління просуватись вперед, розвиватись рідкокристалічний очевидно пропонувати покращувати, вдосконалювати пристрій

Task 8. Finish the following sentences using the information from the text:

1. One can only

2. Everybody has their

3. Obviously, things will get

4. Designs for ergonomics and aesthetics

5. To enable new gadgets

6. The use of more environmentally friendly

7. The integration of various technologies

8. Designs will be bolder with

9. Future weapons

10. We cannot really

Task 9. Choose appropriate definition to each word in the table:

touchpad generation gadget member complex advantage enable envisage advance offer

1. ____ – a small mechanical device or tool, esp. an ingenious or novel one.

2. ____ – to present (something) for (someone) to accept or reject as so desired.

3. ____ – a computer input device in the form of a small panel containing different touch-sensitive areas.

4. ____ –  to provide (smb., smth.) with adequate power, means, opportunity, or authority (to do something)

5. ____ – to move forward, typically in a purposeful way.

6. ____ – all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.

7. ____ – an individual belonging to a group such as a society or team.

8. ____– to conceive an image or a picture of, especially as a future possibility.

9. ____ – consisting of many different and connected parts.

10. ____ – a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position.

Task 10. Choose the proper item:

1. One can only _______ the future technology that our kids will be able to use on a daily basis.

1. imagine

2. dream

3. think

2. Future weapons will actually be smarter, more precise and reduce the need for machismo among countries and will _______ non-proliferation.

1. give

2. support

3. cause

3. ______, things will get smaller and faster with the use of smaller, but higher speed chips.

1. Obviously

2. Yes

3. Surely

4. The use of LCD, LED and touchpad controls and the ______ of many applications into one device that is what we can realistically envisage.

1. unification

2. use

3. integration

5. The integration of various technologies and applications into one new gadget will ______ the need to carry a number of items.

1. deny

2. diminish

3. stop

Task 11. Write down the antonyms of the next words and give their Ukrainian equivalents. The first is done for you:

Example: 0. famous – u_____n (unknown);

1. reduce – e____d;

2. allow – p_____t;

3. advance – s__p;

4. advantage – d______k;

5. improve – w____n;

6. complex – s____e;

7. encourage – h_____r.

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