Unit 5: Technology and you - Listening

Washing machine Microwave oven Modern inventions... Students’ name TV CAMCORDER PHONE CELL COMPUTER MACHINE FAX … …... The man became worried when his secretary asked him to buy a co

Washing machine Microwave oven

Modern inventions

CD player

Air conditioner

Vacuum

cleaner

Modern inventions

English 10

Unit 5:

LISTENING

How often do you use each of the items?

Students’

name TV CAMCORDER PHONE CELL COMPUTER MACHINE FAX

…

…

Vocabulary

worried

refuse to do sth

excuse

Ex : He was late and ma

de an excuse.

headache

Visual Display Unit

(a) = anxious (n) = ability to remember (v) = to reject, incline to do sth (n) = a reason that you give to explain your behaviour

(n) = continuous pain in head = (VDU) computer screen

Task 1: True (T) or False (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

computering lessons

4 His son didn’t understand about the

computer

5 The man understood the lesson very

well

6 The man continued to learn how to use

a computer after a few lessons

T F

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









Task 2: Listen and write in the missing words

He was very helpful He (1) me to sit

down in front of the computer screen I did

not know what it was called When I asked

him what it was, he said that it was a VDU I

(2) didn’t know what VDU was,

but I was too shy to ask him any more From

that moment my memory (3) to

learn because he told me a lot of things that

I really didn’t understand at all

invited

still refused

Next

After a few lessons I began to feel tired I

made an (4) , saying that I had a

headache I suggested we should leave

the lesson for another day Since then I

haven’t said (5) about computer

to my son and my secretary.

Task 2: Listen and write in the missing words

excuse

anything

Key

Retell the story of the old company director and his experience of learning how to use a computer

Can you give some advice about how

to help old people use computer?

RETELL STORY

Television Computer

Rice cooker Dishwasher Printer

Projector

Camera

Hairdryer

Photocopier

Do exercises in workbook

Write the summary of the story in the notebooks

Preparing for writing lesson