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Answer the questions.
1 In what aspects of our life does technology play its role?
2 How did people make a call when telephones didn’t have dials?
3 How are modern telephones different from the old ones?
4 What do people use PCs for?
5 In what way can the Internet be helpful?
6 Are computers used in the field of medicine?
7 What are the disadvantages of technological development?
8 Why are people worried about their privacy?
9 Which problem should become very important in the following years?
10 Does this article give more positive or negative facts about technology?
Ко второму вопросу
II Read the text. Speak on the topic related to this text.
Text 1
Like the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Russian Museum contains one of the finest collections of Russian art in the world. The collections of both museums describe the entire history of Russian art. However, while the Tretyakov Gallery has the finest collection of icons, the Russian Museum’s leadership is based on its collection of late 19th and early 20th century Russian works. One of the best characteristics of the Russian Museum is that it is organized in a clear chronological progression giving a very good picture of the major development in the history of Russian art.
Related topic: “Art and Art Museums”
1 Are you interested in art?
2 Who teaches you to understand art?
3 Do you prefer modern or ancient art?
4 What kind of museum is the text about?
5 In what way are the collections of the both museums different?
6 Have you ever visited the Tretyаkov Gallery or the Russian Art Museum?
7 Why is art important?
8 Who teaches you to understand art?
9 What famous painters do you know?
10 When did you last go to a picture gallery? Whose works did you see there?
Text 2
The River Thames
The river Thames is the cleanest river in the world that flows through a capital city. However, fifty years ago the river was so polluted that it was declared biologically dead. From 1830 to 1860 thousands of people died of cholera as a result of the pollution in the Thames. Despite the foul smell, people continued to wash and bathe and drink from the river. In 1878 the pleasure ship Princess Alice sunk in the river collision. Most of the 600 or so passengers who died didn’t die from drowning; they died because of the pollution in the river.
The water in the Thames became clearer and people’s health improved only after ‘treatment plants’ had been built at the beginning of the 20th century.
Related topic: “Problems of Ecology”
1 How long has the Thames been the cleanest river in a capital city?
2 What helped to make it clean?
3 Is water in the area where you live clear or polluted?
4 Why is pollution a big problem for people now?
5 What pollutes water and air?
6 What other environmental problems is it necessary to solve?
7 How can people solve these problems?
8 What can you personally do to help nature?
9 What things can be recycled and reused? Why should we recycle and reuse?
10 Is it important for schoolchildren to discuss all these problems at the lessons? Why?
Text 3