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VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
Task 1
Task 1
1.Match the words with the definitions
2. Choose the correct word.
a. The mechanic lost/missed his leg in an accident.
b. Engineers are developing a(n) artificial/fake eye for the blind.
c. The robot has two individual/single microprocessors: one for movement and one for communication.
d. The new robotic leg will allow/let the man to walk again.
e. The brain controls/guides all the organs in the body.
READING
READING
“The Age of Cybernetics”
“The Age of Cybernetics”
Task 1
Task 1
“The Age of Cybernetics”
Have you noticed how many science-fiction stories have got cyborg characters? To start with, there are the Borg in Star Trek and the Cybermen in Dr Who. The Terminator films feature machines with a human appearance and living flesh on top of their metal skeletons. In Robocop, the main character is a police officer who looks like a machine, but beneath his robotic body 1……….
So, what is the fascination with these part-biological, part-mechanical beings? 2………. dream of one day being able to become like machines, or is it that we just want to use technology to fix people's disabilities? It's probably a bit of both, but the reality is that cyborgs will be here sooner than we realise.
Many scientists and doctors have been working 3……… to develop robotic limbs that can be attached to humans. With this technology, people who lose an arm or a leg will have the chance to live almost normal lives again. 4………. He now has two robotic arms that his brain controls through wires connected to nerves in his chest muscles. Later, in 2003, engineers developed an "eyeborg' for a completely colour-blind artist, Neil Harbisson. The eyeborg is a camera-like device which the artist wears on his head and allows him to identify colours.
Some scientists believe that we are entering 5………. , where man and machine are going to become one. No one really knows, though, how far this will go. What is for sure is that people who need them will soon have artificial limbs that they will be able to control with microchips in their brains. 6………. Some scientists believe it will be possible to make artificial eyes that can see better than human eyes. We are not quite there yet, but the idea of a real cybernetic man is getting closer and closer to becoming reality.
3. Read the statements. Then read the text and put events a-f in the correct order.
a. the Age of Cybernetics
b. with sophisticated technology
c. Engineers will design smart joints such as knees and ankles that will function just like real ones.
d. For example, in 2001, American technician, Jesse Sullivan, lost both of his arms in an accident.
e. he has a human mind with human feelings
f. Is it perhaps that some people
1- 2- 3- 4- 5-
4. Read the text and for questions 1-5 choose the best answer a, b, c or d.
Click the button "Kahoot Game"
5.Fill in: become, function, dream, control, connect, develop. You can use your dictionary.
GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR
Study the rules of using CONDITIONALS
Task 1: Practice using Conditionals
Task 1: Practice using Conditionals
LISTENING&SPEAKING
LISTENING&SPEAKING
Task 1
Task 1
6. Use the ideas in the text and your own to explain how cybernetics will improve people's lives. Write a few sentences. Tell the class.
WRITING
WRITING
Task 1: Read and watch situations with happy endings
Task 1: Read and watch situations with happy endings
Situation 1
Situation 2
Task 2: Imagine that you were feel depressing,write a story with happy ending
Task 2: Imagine that you were feel depressing,write a story with happy ending
LIST of answers
LIST of answers
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