Unit 5: Technology and you Listening

Look at these pictures and tell us what they are used for?. Car and airplane / transport passengers - They are used for transporting passengers.. - They are used to transport passengers.

Look at these pictures and tell us what they are used for ?

Car and airplane / transport passengers

- They are used for transporting passengers.

- They are used to transport passengers.

Camera / take pictures

- Camera is used for

taking pictures

-Camera is used to

take pictures

Hair dryer / dry hair

- Hair_dryer is used for drying hair.

- Hair_dryer is used to dry hair

UNIT 5 : TECHNOLOGY AND YOU Period 27

PART C : LISTENING

LOC HUNG HIGH SCHOOL

2 Pre - Listening :

Look at the table

1 How many electronic appliances are there

in the table ? -

2 What are they ?

 How often do you use each of the

items below ? Put a tick (  ) in the right column Then compare your answers with a partner

six

They are radio , cell phone , camcorder , computer ,

TV , fax machine

very often sometimes never

Radio

Cell phone

TV

Fax

New words :

- Worried (adj) to be anxious

- Secretary (n)

- Invite (v ) sb to do sth

- Memory (n)

- Refuse (v)

- Headache (n)  to have a headache

- To ask sb to do sth

- Visual display unit (VDU)

- Excuse (n)  Make an excuse: (say sorry)

You will hear an old company director talking about his experience of learning how to use a computer Listen to the tape and decide

whether the statements are true or false

3 While – listening

Task 1 : Listen to an old company director

talking about his experience of learning how

to use a computer Decide whether the

statements are true (T) or false (F)

T F

1 The man was worried when his

son bought a computer

2 The man became worried when his

secretary asked him to buy a computer

3.The man decided to take some computing

lessons.

4 His son didn’t understand about

the computer

5 The man understood the

lessons very well.

6 After a few lessons the man

began to feel tired

7 The man continued to learn

how to use a computer after a

few lessons.

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Task 2 : Listen to the old man’s story again

and write in the missing words

He was very helpful He (1) invited me to sit down in front of the computer sreen I did not know what it was called When I asked him what it was, he said that it

was a VDU.I (2) still didn’t know what VDU was, but I was too shy to ask him anymore From that moment

my memory (3) refused to learn because he told me

a lot of things that I really didn’t understand at all

After a few lessons I began to feel tired.I made an (4)

excuse ,saying that I had a (5) headache I

suggested we should leave the lesson for another day Since then I haven’t said (6) anything about the

computer to my son and my secretary

4 Post - listening : Listen to the man’s talk again Ask and answer the questions

1. What did the man’s son buy ?

2. Why did the man become worried ?

3. What didn’t the man know ?

4. What happened to the man’s memory ?

5. What did the man suggest ?

 1 He bought a computer

secretary asked him to buy a computer.

lesson untill another day.

5 Homework

 Prepare new lesson Unit 5 (cont) : Writing

 Go through and learn the lesson.