(Students guessed about the
theme)
Task
2.
Now look at the
pictures and answer the questions.
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What do you see on these
pictures?
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What’s the difference in these
pictures?
Concept checking:
What should you do?
Descriptor:
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Answer the questions (with picture
support)
Team 1. Discuss in
group. Why are new technologies helpful and useful for our
life?
Descriptors:
A learner
1. Discuss in groups the
advantages of new technologies.
Team 2. Discuss in
group. Why are new technologies harmful for our life and
people?
Descriptors:
A learner
1. Discuss in groups the
disadvantages of new technologies.
One volunteer of
each group represents the arguments for and against new
technologies.
Descriptors:
A learner
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gives arguments for and against of usage
of new technologies, discussed in the group using vocabulary of the
theme.
Task 3.
AFL:
group assessment.
Read to
the story about mobiles and answer the questions. Circle the
correct answer. Teacher reads the story to the
class.
I’m standing
in a queue at the supermarket. The woman in front of me is talking
on her mobile phone while the shop assistant is filling her bags.
I’ll say something if she doesn’t stop soon.No, I won’t. My phone’s
ringing now. If it’s my boyfriend, I’ll tell him he’s late again!’
Oh, it’s my mum. Well, I’m just… Why are so addicted to mobile
phones? There are now over forty million people in Britain with
mobiles and if the present trend continuous, ever man, woman child
in Britain will soon have one-or two, or three!
Britain with
mobiles and are possibly bad for us. You can spend a fortune if you
use your mobile a lot. According to some scientists, if we go on
using mobiles, we’ll cook our brains. Some people even say that
radiation from mobiles causes cancer. Psychologists say we are
becoming dependent on mobiles. Dr. Oliver James talks about ‘
phoneliness’-in modern society we are lonely, so if people ring us
up or send us text messages, we feel wanted.
Activity: For more able learners
read and write the correct information.
1.The speaker is at the ––––––––––.
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The woman in front of
the speaker is –––––––––––.
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The person who is
calling to the speaker is––––––––––.
Activity: Read and mark sentences True or
False
1.People say that radiation causes
cancer.––––––––––
2.Modern people are not dependent on
mobiles.–––––––
3. In
modern society we are alone without
mobiles.–––––
Descriptors:
A learner
-Read the text and chooses the right
answer;
-marks sentences
correctly.
-find and translate the new
words.
-choose the meaning of the
words in the dictionary and writes them in the
table.
Task:4 Make up a cluster
about the advantages and disadvantages of new
technologies.
Work in
groups.
Team 1.
Discuss in group and make a
cluster about advantages of new technologies.
Team 2.
Discuss in group and make a
cluster about disadvantages of new technologies.
Two volunteers protect the
clusters of the group.
Concept checking: What
should you do?
Descriptors:
1.Draw a cluster with
advantages and disadvantages on usage of new
technologies.
More able
learners make presentation of clusters.
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