ТОР 5 статей:
Методические подходы к анализу финансового состояния предприятия
Проблема периодизации русской литературы ХХ века. Краткая характеристика второй половины ХХ века
Характеристика шлифовальных кругов и ее маркировка
Служебные части речи. Предлог. Союз. Частицы
КАТЕГОРИИ:
- Археология
- Архитектура
- Астрономия
- Аудит
- Биология
- Ботаника
- Бухгалтерский учёт
- Войное дело
- Генетика
- География
- Геология
- Дизайн
- Искусство
- История
- Кино
- Кулинария
- Культура
- Литература
- Математика
- Медицина
- Металлургия
- Мифология
- Музыка
- Психология
- Религия
- Спорт
- Строительство
- Техника
- Транспорт
- Туризм
- Усадьба
- Физика
- Фотография
- Химия
- Экология
- Электричество
- Электроника
- Энергетика
Unit 7. Inventions That Shook the World
| Topics, Problems, Situations | Intercultural Awareness | Speaking | Writing | Reading | Listening | Project |
| Do you use modern inventions in everyday life? What electrical or electronic goods would you/would you never like to have at home? What inventions have become commonplace nowadays? Do you know anything about great inventions and great inventors? Can you represent inventions on the time line? What inventions have been made by Russian scientists and inventors? What fads about inventions do you know? What do you think about different inventions? How to organize the household? What are pros and cons of high-tech devices? What would you like to invent? | the world’s great inventions of the 19th and 20th centuries: a car, television, a vacuum cleaner, a photocopier, Microsoft, cloning, etc. and inventors: T. Edison, J. L. Baird, I. Kulibin, A. Lodygin, V. Petrov, the Cherepanovs and others; some facts from the life of an ordinary family in the USA in the 1920s | I. About modern inventions that are used in everyday life; the most useful/important thing at home, its main characteristics; different inventions: time/place/inventor; devices and gadgets people could buy and use in the 1920s; advantages/disadvantages of different devices II. Functions Giving an opinion; giving arguments; explaining one’s choice; agreeing/disagreeing; discussing; giving reasons for agreeing or disagreeing; asking and answering questions about inventors and inventions; expressing probability; making conclusions; comparing; giving themselves time to think; asking about preference; warning someone; responding to thanks III. Grammar Structures For revision: V-ing form; Simple Past; Present Perfect; Past Perfect; Simple Past Passive; Present Perfect Passive; sth / sb is said to be...; can New: Past Perfect Passive IV. Lexical Items New: 61 | I. A 15 second commercial for a product about Russian inventors; the inventions made before learners were born II. Writing Skills Taking notes | I. Opinions about some of the modern inventions used in everyday life; people’s attitude towards technology; short passages from dictionaries, newspapers and science fiction articles about the time and place an invention was made; some facts about the world’s great inventors; fads about inventors and their inventions; a story from the autobiographical book “Belles on Their Toes”; advantages of knowing computering (from the book “Bloodline” by Sidney Sheldon) II. Reading and Thinking Skills Reading for specific information; reading for the main idea; reading for detail; understanding at the level of literal comprehension; guessing words by word building/analogy/definition; understanding types of relation between the word and the context; understanding sequence; extracting cultural information; applying background knowledge III. Grammar Reading Structures For revision: Past Perfect Active New: Past Perfect Passive IV. Lexical Items New: 94 | I. Opinions about some of the modern inventions used in everyday life; a conversation in a shop; a TV commercial; people’s attitude towards technology and electrical devices; about inventors and inventions II. Listening and Thinking Skills Listening for the main idea, for detail, for specific information | What would you like to invent? |