Unit 1 A day in the life of

Transmit/ receive/ make/ process/ store/ send/ hold/ design 1... Information technology is very useful to our lives.[r]

What are they?

Unit 5: Technology and you

Lesson 2: Speaking

Task 1 Work in pairs Ask and answer questions about the uses of modern inventions

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

Make conversations using the prompts

below

learn foreign language

football matches, learn foreign language

picture quickly

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Task 2: Complete the

sentences below Use the words in the box

Transmit/ receive/ make/ process/ store/

send/ hold/ design

1 Store

2 Transmit

3 Process

4 Transmit/ send

5 Hold

6 Make

7 Send

8 Receive

9 Design

Information technology is very useful to

our lives It allows us to:

1 Store very large amounts of information

2 Transmit information quickly

3 Process information as soon as we

receive it

With the development of information

technology we can now

another

5 Hold long distance meeting in which the

participants can see each other on a screen

6 Make use of central stores of information

7 Send TV programs to other countries

8 Receive TV programs from other countries

Task 3 Look at the ideas in task 2 and

which is the most important?

information technology is to ……

information technology is that we

Task 4: Talk about the uses of

information technology

Homework

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