After reading activity. Task 1. Answer the following question

Task 1. 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. Use of 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?

Task 2. Decide which of the following statements are true (T) or false (F):

1. Future technology will allow the generation of today to live longer due to advances in medicine.

2. Obviously, things won’t be smaller and faster with the use of smaller chips.

3. Older weapons were smarter, more precise than future ones will be.

4. The use of more environmentally friendly materials in new gadgets as well as a push for low power usage will sit well with the current world environmental policies.

5. Based on current trends there are a number of factors that will certainly feature in future gadgets for men.

6. To enable new gadgets to advance this way science will be looking to macrotechnology and the use of smart materials to accommodate faster processors and micro-electronics.

T	T	T	T	T	T
F	F	F	F	F	F

 

Task 3. Match the English words and word combinations with their Ukrainian equivalents:

1. gadget 2. improve 3. offer 4. obviously 5. eco-friendly mаterials 6. LCD 7. LED 8. touchpad control 9. advance 10. envision

a) екологічно безпечні матеріали b) уявляти c) світлодіодний d) сенсорні панелі управління e) просуватись вперед f) рідкокристалічний g) очевидно h) пропозиція, пропонувати i) покращувати, вдосконалювати j) пристрій

 

Task 4. 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 5. Choose appropriate definition to each word in the table:

touchpad generation gadget member complex advantage control envisage advance offer

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

2. __________ present or proffer (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. _________ the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events.

5. _________ 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. _________ contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event.

9. _________ consisting of many different and connected parts.

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

 

Task 6. Complete each sentence, using one of the three words provided:

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

a. imagine;

b. dream;

c. think.

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

a. give;

b. support;

c. cause.

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

a. Obvious;

b. Yes;

c. Surely.

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

a. unification;

b. use;

c. iteration.

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

a. deny;

b. diminish;

c. stop.

 

Task 7. Write down the antonyms of the next words. 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.

 

GRAMMAR

Past Perfect Continuous

Task 8. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of the Past Perfect Continuous:

1. The kitchen craft avocado slicer is ingenious gadget no long ________ (to wonder) people.

2. Computer simulations which _______ (to prepare) by the architects show how stunning the building will look with its new roof of green cumberland slate.

3. A number of programmers working on big mainframe computers _______ (to develop) different computer games during the following years.

4. The hand levers for operating the clutch and brakes _______ (to optimize) for perfect ergonomics and are adjustable.

5. Sti _______ (to perform) temporal integration without destroying the phase-locking information of regular sounds -- the phase locking information that we hear.

6. Ships _______ (to carry) nuclear weapons then banned from British ports.

7. Full assembler based nanotechnology _______ (to exist) in the realm of the far distant future.

8. Nanotechnology in medicine ______ (to limit) to devices that monitor or replace biochemical processes in the body.

 

Task 9. Fill in the gaps with one of the verbs from the list in the Past Perfect Continuous: