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THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY GADGETS
(02:40)
PRE-LISTENING
6. What is a gadget?
7. What latest gadgets can you name? Make a list.
8. Which from your list is the most important for you? Why?
9. Study the following words and phrases:
“to project”, “to magnify”, “(to) clip”, “magnetic field”.
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the whole video-track and answer the following questions:
5. How many gadgets are described in the text?
Watch the video-track a part by part and answer the following questions:
00:00 – 00:47
6. What gadget is described?
7. What can you do with this gadget?
8. Why is it so useful?
9. Which synonym is used instead of the word ‘comfortable’?
10. How does it work? Fill in the gaps in the following text with the words you hear:
| The keyboard (1) __________ by projecting red diode laser (2) __________ through the refracting field shaped like a (3) __________ . A lens magnifies and (4) __________ the light … into any flat surface … and (5) __________ the motion of user’s (6) __________ and communicates the (7) __________ wirelessly to the receiving (8) __________ . |
00:48 – 01:10
11. What gadget is described?
12. What is its capacity?
13. How is it connected to a computer?
14. How does it work?
01:11 – 01:47
15. What gadget is described?
16. How many elements are included in this gadget?
17. What is the capacity of a clip?
18. What can you do with this gadget?
19. How is it connected to a computer?
20. How does it work? Fill in the gaps in the following text with the words you hear:
| (1) __________ on the pen’s tip (2) __________ a radio (3) __________ to the clip on the (4) __________ of the page. It (5) __________ the position of the (6)__________ . |
01:48 – 02:32
21. What gadget is described?
22. What is its capacity?
23. What can you do with this gadget?
24. How small are the capsules inside the display screen?
25. What makes negatively charged black sides and positively charged white sides in capsules inside the display screen change their position?
POST-LISTENING
26. What gadgets shown in the track, do you think, are of great importance?
27. Why do people design gadgets?
28. What kind of gadget would you like to be designed?
VW TOUAREG GADGETS
(02:30)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What is a gadget?
2. What gadgets do cars usually have?
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the whole video-track. Match the phrases from columns A, B and C in the table below to form sentences in order to answer the following question:
3. What can you do with the VW Touareg gadget that is shown in the track?
You can…
| A | B | C |
| set | the disposition of a virtual picture | to choose options. |
| see | the parameters | in front of your car. |
| project | temperature | while navigating your car. |
| use | the road | on the road. |
| watch | sensor display | for a driver and a passenger. |
| set | the Russian language | behind your car. |
| navigate | the virtual position of your car | of climate control. |
| use | the direction of wheels | of you car, moving along the road. |
| change | the road | on the road. |
| watch | your car | of your car. |
POST-LISTENING
4. Think of similar sentences about other car gadgets. What can you do with … ?
You can … .
THE BEST JAMES BOND GADGETS
(04:52)
PRE-LISTENING
1. Do you know James Bond? Do you remember any of films with him? Do you remember any of gadgets that he used?
2. Do you know the following words and phrases:
“mission”, “to crack”, “a missile”, “spectrum”, “a gun”, “space”,
“to discover”, “to prevent”, “to break out”, “to accompany”,
“to identify”, “to seize a control”, “water supply” .
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the whole video-track and answer the following question:
3. How many gadgets that were used by James Bond are described in the text?
4. What are they?
Watch the video-track a part by part and answer the following questions:
00:00 – 00:20
5. How did James Bond complete his missions?
6. What helped James Bond to complete missions?
00:21 – 00:25
7. Complete the following sentence with the words you hear:
| Let’s take a (1) __________ at some of the (2) __________ Bond (3) __________ and how they were worn over the last (4) __________ years. |
00:26 – 01:05
8. Complete the following with the words you hear:
| … Early car (1) __________ had been around for (2) __________ years. But these were essentially (3) __________-wave (4) __________ with the (5) __________ to the existing lane-line grid because it (6) __________ in the same spectrum as most ‘walky-talkies’. … |
9. When did car phones become commercially available?
01:06 – 01:47
10. Complete the following with the words you hear:
| … The safe (1) __________ was the (2) __________ of (3) __________ . Real (4) __________ crackers at the time used listening (5)__________ , (6) __________and other more destructive (6) __________ . … |
11. When and where was an auto-dialer designed?
12. What was the most advanced lock ever built?
01:48 – 02:08
13. When did ray-guns stop being simply fictional toys?
14. What company began manufacturing laser weapons?
02:09 – 02:27
15. Where is the scene of ‘The Moonraker’ set?
02:28 – 02:52
16. What is special about the boombox shown in the track?
17. When did German police discover the hand guns?
18. What were these hand guns like?
02:53 – 03:35
19. What did James Bond have to do in ‘Tomorrow never dies’?
03:57 – 04:31
20. What mission is James Bond completing in the film mentioned in this part of the track?
21. What is the name of organization that accompanies the idea of creation of implants to identify pets and human?
Watch the video-track again and complete the following table:
22. Fill in the gaps in the following table:
| year | gadget | name of the film | name of an actor as James Bond |
| Sean Connery | |||
| a safe-cracker | On Her Majesty’s Secret Service | George Lazenby | |
| laser | Moonraker | Roger Moore | |
| The Living Daylights | |||
| a remote-controlled car | Pierce Brosnan | ||
| Quantum of solace |
POST-LISTENING
23. Which of these gadgets is/are of most importance? Why?
24. Which of these gadgets is/are widely used nowadays?
BRIDGES
Part I
1. Why do people build bridges? Where are bridges usually built?