Learning objectives

10.4.2 Understand specific information and detail in extended texts on a range of familiar general and curricular topics, and some unfamiliar topics

10.5.5 Develop with support coherent arguments supported when necessary by examples and reasons for a wide range of written genres in familiar general and curricular topics

10.6.8 Use a variety of future active and passive and future continuous forms on a wide range of familiar general and curricular topics

Assessment criteria

• Identify specific information and details in a text

• Connect ideas into a coherent paragraph using linking words justifying responses with examples and reasons

• Apply future active and passive and future continuous forms

Level of thinking skills

Knowledge and comprehension Application

Higher order thinking skills

Duration

20 minutes

Reading

Task 1. Read the text and choose the correct option.

1. Nanotechnology is the latest breakthrough in technology. It refers to science and technology in dimensions smaller than one thousand nanometers. One nanometer is a billionth of a meter. The research in nanotechnology is going primarily in two directions, construction of objects atom by atom and production of nano-sized machines. This field of technology is still mysterious for me, and includes a number of undiscovered things.

2. Imagine if we could build objects by assembling the atoms. It is fascinating that we could build whatever we wanted, from a diamond to a flower. We would simply gather the necessary atoms in the correct way to make anything we wanted. If you got hungry, you wouldn't have to cook. You would just order what you wanted from a machine and it would assemble the food for you, atom by atom. If you needed new clothes, you wouldn't have to go to the store or even sew, a machine would assemble the atoms into a beautiful outfit.

3. Another branch of nanotechnology research involves making nano-sized machines for different purposes. It is surprising that these nano-sized robots could go into your body and cure diseases. If you got sick you wouldn't need to have surgery. You would just drink a solution that contained the little nano-robots and they would repair your body from the inside, like little mechanics.

4. Nanotechnology raises interesting questions, but, in my view, it has a lot of potential. If we could use nanotechnology to produce food and objects, it would mean the end of hunger and poverty. Perhaps we could even travel long distances almost instantly by disassembling our atoms in one place and reassembling them in our destination. The sky is the limit to what we could do with nanotechnology!

   1. Nanotechnology as a science is ….

      1. Exciting for the author.

      2. Interesting for the author.

      3. Unknown for the author.

Assessment criteria

Task

№

Descriptor

Mark

A learner

Identify specific information and details in a text

1

writes ‘C’ for the 1^st question;

1

writes ‘A’ for the 2^nd question;

1

writes ‘B’ for the 3^rd question;

1

writes ‘A’ for the 4^th question;

1

2

writes ‘B’ for the 5^th question;

1

writes ‘A’ for the 6^th question;

1

Connect ideas into a coherent paragraph using linking words justifying responses with examples and reasons

Apply future active and passive and future continuous forms

3

clearly conveys own opinion;

1

supports opinion with arguments;

1

includes reasons and/or examples;

1

uses connectors to link paragraphs logically;

1

uses topic-related vocabulary accurately;

1

uses future active and passive forms

accurately;

1

uses future continuous forms accurately.

1

Total marks

13