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UNIT 11
TECHNOLOGY
11
Overview
Watch the video podcast. Who are you most similar to?
1
Read Hina’s text and watch the video podcast from 0:11-0:29. Complete the text with the words in
the box.
I love technology. I enjoy reading about 1 new gadgets and I spend a lot of
Hina
2 __________ on technology. I couldn’t 3 __________ without my mobile
phone because I 4 __________ my life with 5 ___________ , or without my
MP3 player because I love listening 6 __________ music. How about you?
How do you feel about 7 _____________?
new
plan
to
technology
money
live
it
Glossary: gadget = a small tool or machine that helps you do sth
2
Watch the video podcast from 0:29-2:56 and write the six items of technology the speakers talk
about.
1 computer
4 _________ player
2 m______ _______
5 l_______________
3 i_______________
6 e-book _________
3
Howdotheyfeelabouttechnology?Look at the people below and read the answers. Then watch the
video podcast from 0:29-1:21 and match people A-F to their answers.
A
B
C
D
E
F
Glossary: disturbing = makes you feel worried/upset; technophobe = a person who
inds it hard to use technology
1 I am deinitely not a technophobe. I have learnt to love technology very much, though, in my job.
D
2 For what I do, I’m probably quite a technophobe.
3 I have every latest gadget as it comes out.
4 I love technology – a lot. You know, everything about it like new gadgets, you know,
computers, things like that.
5 I’ve got lots of gadgets. I wouldn’t be… I wouldn’t know what to do without my laptop.
6 I hate technology. I ind it frightening and disturbing.
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4
Look at the people below and read the questions about them. Then watch the video podcast from
1:26-2:04 and write the answers to the questions. Watch the podcast two or three times if necessary.
1 Where’s his mobile phone?
Answer:
In his pocket
2 What’s her mobile phone
connected to?
Answer:
____________________
3 Why isn’t she using her iPod?
Answer:
___________________
4 Which items of technology does
he have with him?
Answer:
____________________
5 How many mobiles has she got?
Answer:
____________________
6 How many gadgets does he
have?
Answer:
____________________
Glossary: connected = joined; charged = to have electric power
5
Arethereanytemsoftechnologytheycouldntivewthout?Watch the video podcast from 2:05-
2:56. Tick (
✓
) the answers that speakers 1-6 give in the table below.
items
2
3
4
5
6
1
computer
✓
phone
laptop
iPod
TV
Internet
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TECHNOLOGY
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6
Look at the people below and complete their answers with the words in the box. Then watch the
podcast again from 2:05-2:56 and check your answers.
on turned that devastated essential broke
I couldn’t live without my
computer. Why not? Because
I’m 1 on it all the time. It
2 ________ down once for three
weeks and I felt like my husband
had left me – I’m not even
married. I was 3 ____________.
So no, I couldn’t live without my
computer.
I couldn’t live without my laptop.
I could probably live without my
phone. I quite like leaving it
4 __________ off for a while. But
the laptop’s
5 ____________.
My phone. I think
6 beyond ___________, I don’t
need anything else.
Vocabulary
7
Match deinitions a-f to phrases 1-6 in Ex 6.
a) using it
1
b) important and necessary
c) the opposite of turn on
d) apart from that
e) stopped working
f ) very sad/upset
Personalisation
8
Write your answers to the questions below.
What items of technology could/couldn’t you live without? Why?
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Fun FACTs
A mobile phone saved the life of a boy in Congo. To ind out more, go to
the BBC link below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/
witn/2008/ 1 2/08 1 203_congo_amputation.shtml
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