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Warm Up

Vo­ca­bu­la­ry Game:



Topic: Sci­ence

First Step: The teacher is going to tell a word in the be­gin­ning.

Se­cond Step: The first stu­dent should tell ano­ther word which comes to his/her mind first.

Third Step: The pro­cess con­ti­nu­es un­till each stu­dent finds an eng­lish word which is re­la­ted with the one they have heart last.

Dis­cuss the ques­ti­ons

• What three gad­gets do you use most often? Have they chan­ged in your life­time?



• Which of your gad­gets would you like to up­date? Why?



• What mo­dern tech­no­lo­gy makes your life ea­sier? What makes it a bit more dif­fi­cult?

Video Time

1
Watch the first video (from 01:04 to 01:56)
and the se­cond video (from 02:56 to 04:13)
and say which tech­no­lo­gies are com­pa­red.

https://youtu.be/DENG7Q7VRgo?t=64

https://youtu.be/DENG7Q7VRgo?t=176

2
Look at some sen­ten­ces about the tech­no­lo­gies from the video and guess the mis­sing in­for­ma­ti­on. Watch both parts of the video again and check your ans­wers.

a) ebook rea­ders: the che­a­pest ver­si­on can hold books in a di­gi­tal form.



b) cars: the 1908 model had a top speed of mph. The 2017 model has a speed of mph.



c) lap­tops: the first lap­top had a -inch screen and weig­hed pounds. The new mo­dels have 13-15-inch screens.



d) mo­bi­le pho­nes: the 1973 model weig­hed kg and took hours to re­ch­ar­ge.

3
Read the sen­ten­ces and say what they are about.

EBOOK REA­DER CAR LAP­TOP MO­BI­LE PHONE



a) This mo­dern model has a lon­ger talk time than the old model.

b) It’s the best gad­get for re­a­ding.

c) This gad­get is the most mul­ti­func­tio­n­al of all the ob­jects shown in the video.

d) This gad­get has the big­gest screen.

e) The mo­dern model has a more pow­er­ful en­gi­ne than the old one.

f) This is the hea­viest thing in the video.

g) Some people say that it’s worse for your eyes than the paper ver­si­on.

Game:

You are going to lis­ten to some clues about an ob­ject and must guess what it is. The fewer clues you need to guess the ob­ject, the more points you re­cei­ve.

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