Imagine you work for a mobile phone company.
· Work in a group to design a mobile phone of the future.
· Think about the features it has and what it can do.
· When you have decided, try to draw the phone and label all the features.
· Then you can present your idea to the group
MOBILE PHONE QUIZ
How much do you know about mobile phones? Try this quiz and find out.
1) What is the average number of mobile phones owned by each British person?
a) 0.8
b) 1.8
c) 2.8
2) When was the first mobile phone created?
a) 1973
b) 1983
c) 1993
3) What were the first words spoken on a mobile?
a) “Can you hear me?”
b) “I’m on the train”
c) “Guess where I’m calling from?”
4) How many phone numbers could the first mobile phones hold in their memory?
a)10
b)30
c)100
5) How much money was spent last year in Britain on ring tones?
a) ₤ 26 million
b) ₤ 56 million
c) ₤ 76 million
6) Which country has the most mobile phones in use?
a) The United States
b) India
c) In China
7) How many people in the whole world own a mobile phone?
a) 4 million
b) 4 billion
c) 4 trillion
8) What percentage of drivers use their mobile phone while driving in the UK?
a) 0.8
b) 1.8
c) 2.8
9) How many texts are sent every second in Britain?
a) 1000
b) 5000
c) 10 000
10) What is the universal emergency number for all mobile phones in the EU?
a) 112
b) 999
c) 911
TEST YOURSELF
1. 1 Kate ________ in London.
| A to live | Clive |
| B is living | D lives |
2. She ________English.
| A is | Care |
| B is being | D am |
She ________English now.
| A speak | Cspeaks |
| B is speaking | D are speaking |
4. Do you ________Russian?
| A speak | Cis speaking |
| B speaks | D are speaking |
You ________ to speak English now.
| A learning | Cis learning |
| B are learning | D learn |
Water ________ at 100 degrees celcius.
| A boiling | Cboil |
| B is boiling | D boils |
I ________ in Moscow with my friend (only for a couple of weeks).
| A am living | Clives |
| B live | D are living |
8. The water ________. Can you turn it off?
| A boil | Cis boiling |
| B to boil | D boils |
I ________English now.
| A am speaking | Cam saying |
| B speak | D is telling |
My parents ___ in a detached house.
| A lives | Cis living |
| B live | D living |
The Sun ___ in the East.
| A rise | Care rising |
| B rises | D rising |
12. Red traffic lights ___ “Stop”.
| A points | Cmeans |
| B reads | D speaks |
He ___ to any parties.
| A not to belong | Cdoesn’t belong |
| B don’t believe | D believes |
14. Do you ___ where the post office is?
| A knowing | Crealize |
| B know | D speak |
My mother usually ___ lots of money on clothes.
| A spends | Cis asking |
| B is wasting | D rejects |
Martin never ___ me text messages.
| A sends | Creceives |
| B doesn’t send | D obtains |
I ___ too much coffee.
| A drinking | Cdrink |
| B drinks | D is drinking |
The bank always ___ on time.
| A close | Copens |
| B serve | D open |
19. I ___ I’ll show you the city.
| A promise | Cam promise |
| B promising | D promises |
You ___ your things. You shold be more attentive.
| A always lose | Care always losing |
| B are losing always | D lose |
A solar eclipse ___ when the moon ___ in front of the sun.
| A happen, passe | Chappens, passes |
| B happens, is passing | D is happening, is passing |
22. What ___ of my hair?
| A do you think | Care you thinking |
| B think | D you are thinking |
23. What ___ about now?
| Ado you think | Care you thinking |
| Bthink | Dyou are thinking |
My term in university course ___ until next month.
| Ais starting | Cstart |
| Bstart | Ddoesn’t start |
He always ___ a blak hat.
| Awears | Cbring |
| Bclothes | Dsell |
26. When ___ ?
| Ais the plane arriving | Cthe plane is arriving |
| Bdoes the plane arrive | Dthe plane arrives |
27. Why ___ now?
| Adoes she cry | Cis she crying |
| Bshe cries | Dshe is crying |
28. What time ___ in the morning?
| Aare you getting up | Cdo you get up |
| Byou are getting up | Dyou get up |
This weekend I ___ my friends in Brighton.
| Avisit | Care visiting |
| Bam visiting | Dvisits |
30. ___ in the pool at the moment?
| ADo they swim | CAre they swimming |
| BThey swim | DThey are swimming |
UNIT 2
GRAMMAR: PAST INDEFINITE; PAST CONTINUOUS
TEXTS: GALILEO’S EXPERIMENTS; ALBERT EINSTEIN
PAST INDEFINITE
| Affirmative form | Interrogative form | Negative form | |
| I He She It We You They | played | I he she Did it play? we you they | I He She It did not play We (didn’t) You They |
!!! Але деякі дієслова мають неправильну форму дієслова у стверджувальних реченнях:
To read − read
To write − wrote
To go − went
To see − saw
Список неправильних дієслів подається у додатку “Irregular Verbs”.
SHORT ANSWERS
| Affirmative form | Negative form |
| I he she Yes, it did we you they | I he she No, it did not we (didn’t) you they |
Зверніть увагу!!!
1. Якщо слово закінчується на приголосну та літеру “y”, то перед закінченням –ed літера “y” змінюється на “i” (to try - I tried).
2. Літера “y” не змінюється, якщо слово закінчується на голосну + “y” (to play -I played).
3. Якщо слово закінчується на голосну + приголосну, приголосний подвоюється (to stop – I stopped).
Signal words: yesterday, a week (month, year) ago, last week (month, year), in 2012.
Past Simple вживається:
1. Для вираження дії, що регулярно відбувалася у минулому:
Last winter I spent a lot of time Минулої зими я проводив багато часу
in the library. в бібліотеці.
While she was in London, she Коли вона була в Лондоні,
wrote us letters every week. вона писала нам листи щотижня.
2. Для вираження факту в минулому:
What did you say? Що ви сказали?
The negotiations ended last week. Переговори закінчилися минулого тижня.
3.Для вираження послідовності минулих дій:
He came to the table, took a pen Він підійшов до столу, взяв ручку
and started writing. і почав писати.