Unit 5. Technology and you

Warm up: KIM’S GAME
Look at the words quickly, then write down as many as possible those words
Places of scenic beauty
Miraculous
Hardware
Calculation
Speed up
Lightning speed
Storage device
Memos
Interact
Unit 5: TECHNOLOGY AND YOU
A- READING 2
I. PRE-READING:
Activity: Predicting T/F statements:
1. We visit shops, offices and places of scenic beauty with the help of computers.
2. We can’t learn foreign languages on computers.
3. Computer is incapable of doing almost anything you ask it.
4. You can relax by playing computer games or listening to computer-played music.
Predict
T
F
F
T
F
T
F
T
II. While- reading :
Task 1: Checking T/F statements:
1. We visit shops, offices and places of scenic beauty with the help of computers.
2. We can’t learn foreign languages on computers.
3. Computer is incapable of doing almost anything you ask it.
4. You can relax by playing computer games or listening to computer-played music.
T
F
F
T
(Line 1,2- paragraph 1)
We can learn foreign languages on computers (Line 6- paragraph 1)
...It is capable of doing almost anything you ask it to. ( Line 2,3 – paragraph 2)
(Line 1,2 from the end of paragraph 3)
Task 2: Read the text and fill in each blank with a suitable verb.
1. Computers help us ______ shops, offices and places of scenic beauty.
2. We ______ newspapers and magazines on computers.
3. We can _____ bills produced by computers.
4. With the help of computers, we _______ letters from and _____ letters to anywhere around the world.
5. Everyone can _____ foreign languages with a computer.
visit
read
pay
send
receive
learn
III. Post- reading
Friday, October 18th, 2013
Task 3: Read the text again and complete the diagram about the computer
COMPUTER
a miraculous device
Calculating
machine
typewriter
Personal
communicator
Device for entertainment
It can
add
subtract
multiply
divide
We can type and print documents
We can
interact with
We can
relax by
letters
memos
requests for leave
other computers
people around
the world
playing computer games
listening to computer-played music
1
4
2
3
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Homework:
Revise the vocabulary
Prepare new lesson: Find out the use of some devices below:
+ radio:
+ cell phone:
+ fax machine:
+ electric cooker:
+ camcorder: