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UNIT 18

«THE PAST AND THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY»

LESSON 1. «THE PAST AND THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY»

Goals:
- to teach students to use passive constructions in the appropriate context;
- to encourage the use of thematic vocabulary;
- to develop listening skills to correct text;
- to encourage the use of sentences in a passive state during spoken language.
Type of the lesson: combined

PROCEDURE
І. INTRODUCTION

T: Hello everybody, I hope everything is OK because we have a great topic for the
lesson today.

Task 1. Read the tong twisters
1) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
2) Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.
3) There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go
through.

II. MAIN PART

Task 2. Read the text and retell it.
HAVING COMPUTER PROBLEMS
When we return to the office, I know I have to try to make some headway with my
report. Unfortunately, as soon as I sit down in front of my computer, it starts acting up. First,
my computer screen freezes and I have to boot it up again.
Then, when I try to print a copy of my report, it won’t print. I discover that the problem
is that the printer is jammed, so it takes some time to clear it and for it to work again. Finally,
when I think that my computer worries are over, my mouse and keyboard go haywire. I finally
give up and call the computer tech. I don’t usually like calling the computer tech to help me
with computer problems. She’s nice enough, but she always makes me feel like I did something
bad to my computer - something I shouldn’t have done - even when I haven’t.
When she arrives, she sits down at my computer and asks me a lot of questions to find
out what the problem might be. I tell her about the problems I had and she asks if I’d had any
problems while working on my word processing program. I say that everything was fine, but
I did have some trouble formatting one of my files and got an error message when working
on my spreadsheet program. She starts doing something to my computer, typing on the keys a
mile a minute for a long time. Finally she says, “Okay, it’s fixed. You shouldn’t have any
more problems now - as long as you don’t abuse your computer.” Of course I never abuse my

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