Unit 5. Technology and you

Listen to the song and complete the missing words.
When I was young I’d listen to the (1) ________ , waiting for my favorite (2) ________ . When they played, I’d sing along. It made me (3) ________ . Those were such happy times, and not so long ago. How I wondered where they’d gone. But they’re back again, just like a long lost (4) ________ , all the song I love so well. Every sha-la-la-la, every whoa-oh-oh-oh still shines.
radio
songs
smile
friend
YESTERDAY ONCE MORE
Computer
Fax machine
Television
Radio
Telephone
Camcorder
Unit 5: Technology and you Lesson: Listening
Before you listen
How often do you use each of the items below ? Put a tick in the right column.
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Listen and repeat.
Worried
Memory
Refused
Excuse
VDU ( visual display unit)
Headache

Task1: Listen to an old company director talking about his experience of learning how to use a computer. Decide whether the statements are true ( T ) or false ( F ).
2. The man became worried when his secretary asked him to buy a computer.
3. The man decided to take some computing lessons.
1. The man was worried when his son bought a computer.
 The man wasn’t worried when his son bought a computer.
F
T
T
4. His son didn’t understand about the computer.
5. The man understood the lessons very well.
6. The man continued to learn how to use a computer after a few lesson.
 His son understood about the computer very well.
 The man really didn’t understand the lessons at all.
 The man didn’t want to learn how to use a computer after a few lesson.
F
F
F
He was very helpful. He (1) _______ me to sit down in front of the computer screen. I did not know what it was called. When I asked him what it was, he said that it was a VDU. I (2) _____ didn’t know what VDU was, but I was too shy to ask him any more. From that moment my memory (3) ________ to learn because he told me a lot of things that I really didn’t understand at all. After a few lessons I began to feel tired. I made an (4) _______ , saying that I had a headache. I suggested we should leave the lesson for another day. Since then I haven’t said (5) _________ about the computer to my son and my secretary.
Task 2: Listen to the old man’s story again and write the missing words.
invited
still
refused
excuse
anything
After you listen
Listen to the man’s talk again. Then retell his story, beginning the story with the following sentence:
The story is about an old man who doesn’t know how to use the computer…………..
Homework
- Retell the story at home.
- Prepare WRITING lesson.
- Learn vocabulary in the lesson by heart.