1. Work in pairs. Look at the photos of gadgets (A-C). Do you think they are good or bad ideas? Which is your favourite and why? 2. Check the meaning of the words below. Then listen and repeat. Which materials do you think are used to make the gadgets in exercise 1? 3. Do the quiz in pairs. Then check your answers with your teacher. 4. Work in pairs. Look around the classroom. What things are made of the materials in exercise 2? Think about furniture, the building, clothes and possessions.
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1. Work in pairs. How many different things do people use mobile phones for? Think of as many as you can in two minutes. 2. Read the text. What happened in 1973, 1986, 1992 and 1997? 3. Study the first two sentences of the text in exercise 2. Then complete the Learn this! box. 4. Find twelve examples of the passive in the text. Which examples are a) plural, b) negative or c) a question? 5. Read the Look out! box. Complete the sentences with the present simple or past simple passive of the verb
1. Work in pairs. Describe the photos. Where are the people? What do you think they are saying? 2. Read the Listening Strategy. What are the intentions of the speakers in sentences 1-6? Choose from the verbs below. Match three of these sentences (1-6) with the photos. 3. Listen and identify the intentions of the speakers. Choose one verb in exercise 2. 4. Listen to a doctor and a headteacher, and circle the TWO correct options for each person. 5. Prepare a short speech to do one of these things
1. Look at the photo. What things do you think a wearable gadget can do?
2. Read the text and check your ideas from exercise 1. 3. Match the underlined passive forms in the text (1-9) with the tenses below (a-h). 4. Complete the predictions with the affirmative future passive form of the verbs below. 5. Work in pairs. Say if you agree or disagree with the statements in exercise 4. Use the phrases below to help you. 6. Complete the sentences with the verbs below. Use the present perfect passive
1. Would you like to travel to another planet? Why? Why not? 2. Read the text. Do you think it is a good idea to colonise the moon and / or Mars? Give reasons for your answer. 3. Look at the highlighted verb + preposition collocations in the text. Find five more verbs (with for (×2), to, with, and at). 4. Read the Dictionary Skills Strategy. Then look at the dictionary entry for recover. Which preposition is used with it? 5. Complete the sentences with the words below. Use a dictionary to check