Заняття № 23Тема: Наука і технічний прогрес. Past Indefinite. Методичні рекомендації:1. Вивчіть нову лексику.
2. Прочитайте та перкладіть текст " The achievements of science and technical revolution"
3. Дайте відповіді на питання.
4. Прочитайте та перекладіть про цікаві факти технічного прогресу.
5. Виконайте граматичні вправи на вживання Past Indefinite .
1. Вивчіть нову лексику.to go forward [ tə ɡoʊ ˈfɔːwəd ] - йти вперед
oven [ ˈʌvn ] - піч
handy [ ˈhæn.di ] - зручно
vacuum cleaner [ ˈvæk.juːm ˈkliː.nə] - пилосос
coup [ kuː] - переворот, вдалий хід
in a fraction of a second - в долю секунди
pay bills - оплачувати рахунки
conclusion [ kənˈkluːʒn ] - висновок
2. Прочитайте та перкладіть текст " The achievements of science and technical revolution"
As the years go forward our life becomes faster, a lot of new things appear, our mind develops and it cannot stop. It`s like a strong river which never ends to run and it is rapidly spreading all over the Earth.
Many centuries ago people even couldn`t imagine that we will be able to exchange information using telephone, fax, Internet as long as they couldn`t think that there are a lot of planets except our Earth and that people can fly their.
If we think how had everything developed, how many new things had appeared and how had the minds of people become so wide we even won`t be able to understand it because nowadays we cannot imagine our life without such inventions like lamps, ovens, central heating and others.
During the centuries people have been invented the things to make our life easier. A great invention such as transport plays one of the most important roles in our life.
We live in flats, can appear in different point of Earth within a day, can say hello to people who live in another point of the world. All those things are a product of technical progress and it doesn`t stop to grow and develop.
Nowadays we live surrounded by machines and other inventions. And with new inventions we become happier because nearly everything is making by machine not by ourselves.
And from day to day appear more and more new things. And we don`t think about how the first inventions were created. The only thing we know that we never will return to the life which people lived a lot of centuries ago because there is no way back.
Everything is handy. We use at home vacuum cleaners to clean the flat, ovens to cook, lifts to walk down in our houses, lamps to make our flats light….
There are a lot of such things like this, and we even don`t think about when and where and who invented it. And it`s so simple to us. And it`s so dear to us that we cannot even live without it. Our century is a century of developing informational connection. Faxes, TV, Internet, and Telephone became the most popular way of getting and sending information.
One of the greatest inventions of the century is computer. It`s the coup in the technology. When Charles Babbage (1792-1871), a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University invented the first calculating machine in 1812 he could hardly have imagined the situation we find ourselves today.
Computer becomes like a brain of human but the only thing it cannot do is to feel. The other things are easy to it. As everything computers also develop. The possibilities of it are so wide. It can do more than 500000 sums in a fraction of a second.
Programming became one of the most useful and popular profession. Nowadays computers can pay wages, reserve seats on planes, control sputniks, compose music. Also everybody knows the words Cd Rom, a means of storing information on a disk to be read by a computer,
e-mail, which becomes one of the ways to exchange information,
the Internet —
a network that is a way to get information, to communicate with people, to find everything you need.
More and more people become Internet users because we can do so many things their and also cannot say all of them. You can chat there, find job, pay bills, get music, buy something, find referats, and know the latest news exchange information with other people in each point of Еarth by e-mail and a lot of other functions. As for me it became a usual thing to be connected to Internet. It attracts me by a wide variety of different kinds of information which is necessary to people. Of course I use a lot of other things of technology at home. And I think that the main point of such inventions as vacuum cleaners, which we use at home, radio, TV set, mixers, refrigerators, one of the most important thing in every flat all these were invented only after the invention of electricity. So I find the question about technical progress very wide and it`s impossible to say about all inventions. And in conclusion I want to say that the technical progress won`t stop and the machines will substitute everything except one the human.
3. Дайте відповіді на питання 1. By what means can we to exchange information?
2. And with new inventions we become happier because nearly everything is making by machine not by ourselves, don't we?
3. What became the most popular way of getting and sending information? 4. Прочитайте та перекладіть про цікаві факти технічного прогресу.Technology fast facts
1. 160 billion e-mails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.
2. Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.
3. 9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.
4. Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).
5. A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers.
6. There are some 1 billion computers in use.
7. There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.
8. There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.
9. The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.
10. Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.
11. Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
12. Facebook has 500 million registered users… about 100 million less than QQ.
13. About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, 450 million of them speak English. See list of Internet languages.( 1. English – 452 million / 2. Mandarin – 321 million / 3.Spanish – 129 million / 4. Japanese – 94 million / 5. French – 73 million /6. Portuguese – 73 million / 7. German – 65 million /8. Arabic – 41 million /9. Russian – 38 million / 10. Korean – 37 million /
All others – 258 million/.
14. Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet).
15.One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle.
16. Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.
17. The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year.
18. Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.
19. The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.
20. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.
21. About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.
22. 24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.
23. People view 15 billion videos online every month.
24. On average, US onliners view 100 videos per month each.
25. Flickr hosts some 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 15 billion.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-9FaJPhFxQ9. Виконайте вправи на вживання Past Indefinite Tense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk2RLn1YIfsВправа 1. Вставте дієслово to be в Past Indefinite (Past Simple). 
1. Where ... you? - I ... at the cinema.
2. It ... cold and rainy yesterday.
3. ... your husband at work on Friday? - No, he ... not. He ... at home.
4. Where ... my pen? - It ... into my bag.
5. Where ... they yesterday? - They ... at the hospital.
6. ... she a teacher? - No, she ... not. She ... a doctor.
7. He ... a driver.
8. ... you at the factory? - Yes, I ....
9. I ... interested in music.
10. Where ... Tom? - He ... at work.
11. ... they in Kyiv? - Yes, they ....
12. Where ... these pencils? - They ... on the shelf.
Вправа 1. Підкресліть дієслова в Past Indefinite (Past Simple). 
In the summer I visited my grandparents. We went to the forest, swam in the river, went fishing, read books, went to the cinema, watched TV all the time. I visited my friends, played football, listened to music, worked in the fields, went boating, had a good time. I picked berries and mushrooms. I lay on the sand.
Вправа 3. Вставте дієслово, що підходить за змістом в Past Indefinite (Past Simple). 
be (2), feed, take, start, visit, listenThe children went to London. The Tour ________at Hyde Park in the morning. The children_______the ducks and squirrels there. Then they ________photos of Trafalgar Square. The next stop __________the British Museum. They also ___________ the Tower of London. The children _______to the famous bell Big Ben. In the evening they ________ very tired.
see, find, help, be, put, catch, beOne day the children were on the ship. The sea was quiet. Suddenly they _________the pirates' ship. The pirates_________ the children and _______them in a dark room, but Kevin ________ Steve and Maggie. In the room the children ________ the eighth magic pearl. Kevin put the eight pearls together and saved the Shell Kingdom. Kevin's parents _______very happy.
