UNIT 5 CB- SPEAKING

• Watch news/ performances/ football matches,learn foreign languages • Send/ receive letter/ picture quickly • Cook rice/ meat/ fish/ vegetables, keep food/ rice warm • Keep air cool/ w

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TASK 1: work in pairs ask and

answer questions about the uses of modern inventions.

Example:

A: Can you tell me what a cell phone is used for?

B: Well, it is used to talk to people when

you are away from home.

• Watch (news/ performances/

football matches),learn (foreign languages)

• Send/ receive (letter/ picture) quickly

• Cook (rice/ meat/ fish/

vegetables), keep (food/ rice) warm

• Keep air (cool/ warm) when it (hot/ cold)

Sample conversations:

A: Can you tell me what

a television is used for?

B: Well, it is used to watch news,

performances, football matches and we can also learn foreign

languages on TV

Sample conversations:

A: Can you tell me what

an air conditioner is used for?

B: Well, it is used to keep the air cool when it’s hot and to keep the air warm when it’s cold

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Information technology is very useful to our lives It allows us to:

1……… very large amounts of information,

2……… information quickly,

3……….information as soon as we receive it.

With the development of information

technology, we can now:

4……… messages from one computer to another,

5……… long distance meetings in which the participants can see each other on the screen,

6……… use of central stores of information,

7……… TV programmes to other countries,

8………TV programmes from other countries,

9………houses, bridges, gardens, and buildings.

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Work in pairs: Look at the ideas in Task 2, and

then rank them in order of importance Give the reasons?

TASK 4

WORK IN GROUPS: TALKING ABOUT THE USES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (Use the information above)

I think information technology is very

important to our lives because it allows us

Write a short paragraph about advantages and

disadvantages of information technology