Unit 5. Technology and you

SPEAKING

SUMMARY
WARM UP
Controlled Practice
Communicative Practice



ACTIVITY 1:
QUIZ GAME

1. The machines that copy your documents into many?
2. You can find a lot of information on this.
3. The machine to catch your action
4. This device helps you communicate in a long distance
5. This machine makes the air cool during summer
QUIZ GAME

6. You can listen to some broadcasting with this machine
7. The machine to run the compact disc
8. This new modern technology can take the place of humans in factories
9. The brief form of “television”
10. This device helps send document down telephone lines to another places

Ask and answer questions about the uses of modern inventions above:

Example:
A: Can / Could you tell me what an electric cooker is used for?
B: It’s used to cook rice and keep it warm.

PRACTICE
Radio
Telephone
Air conditioner
Telly
CD player
Internet
Fridge
Computer
Photocopier
Camcorder

ACTIVITY 2:
Work in pair
Complete the sentences below. Use the word in box ( use some verbs more than once):
Transmit
Receive
Make
Process
Store
Send
Hold
Design

Transmit Receive Make Process Store Send Hold Design
Information technology is very useful to our life. It allows us to:
______Very large amounts of information,
________Information quickly,
________Information as soon as we receive it.
With development of information technology we can now:
______Messages from one computer to another,
____________Long distance meetings in which the participants can see each other on a screen,
__________Use of central stores of information,
___________Tv programmes to other countries,
_________Tv programmes from other countries,
_________Houses, bridges, gardens and buildings.
ACTIVITY:
Name some modern inventions at your home and tell the classmates what you mostly use it for.