Unit 5. Technology and you

Tien Giang School for gifted students
Class : 10 English
Group : 4
DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN IS DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY
Before you read
a)Match the objects their names.
1. a CT scanner_G
The first CT scanner was used in 1972
Inventor : Godfrey Housnfield
Nationality : English
Today, CT scanners can acquire an image(s) in less than one second, with the image displayed immediately. Modern ‘high end’ scanners can acquire up to 64 images at once. Such scanners are called Multi Slice units.
Before you read
a)Match the objects their names.
2. a microwave oven _F
Introduced in 1967, the Amana Radarange microwave oven would forever change theway American families prepare meals.
Before you read
a)Match the objects their names.
3. an air conditioner_ A
Appeared in 1920s in a movie theater
Before you read
a)Match the objects their names.
4. a computer_H
Pioneer Argonne computer scientist Jean F. Hall.
AVIDAC, Argonne's first digital computer, began operation in January 1953. It was built by the Physics Division for $250,000.
Before you read
a)Match the objects their names.
5. a washing machine_C
Before you read
a)Match the objects their names.
made by Beatty Bros of Canada
Before you read
a)Match the objects their names.
6. a blood pressure monitor_E
Before you read
a)Match the objects their names.
7. a digital audio player_D
1993 DysonWith no bag to get clogged with dirt and dust, it never loses
2003 RoombaIt uses sensors to clean the floor on its own.
Inventor : James Murray Spangler, a department-store janitor in Canton , Ohio
called a “suction sweeper,” in 1908
Year : 1907
VOCABULARY
Maid (n) [meid] : đầy tớ gái
Multifunctional (a) : đa chức năng
Tester (n) ['test?] : máy kiểm tra
Instantly (adv) ['inst?ntli] : lập tức, ngay tức khắc
Blood pressure (n) ['bl?d,pre??] : huyết áp
Cholesterol (n) [k?'lest?r?l] : chất cholesterol, chất mỡ trong máu
Slip of paper (n) : tờ giấy
Insert (v) [in's?:t] : nhét vào, lồng vào
Slot (n) [sl?t] : cái khe
Browse (v) [brauz] : lướt (web), đọc lướt qua ( sách)
Icon (n) ['aik?n] : biểu tượng
Be envious (of) (a) : ghen ti, đố kị
CPU ( Central Processing Unit) : bộ xử lý trung tâm
Unbelievable (a) [,?nbi'li:v?bl] : không thể tin được
LCD screen ( Liquid Crystal Dislay screen) : màn hình tinh thể lỏng
Reading text :
Read the text and do the tasks that follow
a)Choose the best title for the reading passage.
1.Home of the Future
2.Living with modern Technology
3.Future Technology
 Living with modern Technology