Лексико-грамматические упражнения по английскому языку по теме "Изобретения" 8 класс

Лексико-грамматические упражненияф по теме «Изобретения»

для учащихся 8 класса УМК О.В.Афанасьева И.В.Михеева

Составила: учитель английского языка Симонова Елена Евгеньевна МБОУ СОШ №22 с углубленным изучением иностранных языков г. Ульяновск

Choose the right answer

• 1. You use the internet very first thing in the morning. a) Yes b) No
• 2. A day without viewing your myspace (Facebook…) account will be…

a) Dreadful b) Normal

• 3. You have more virtual friends than real. a) Yes b) No
• 4. On your birthday, you receive more greetings on myspace (Facebook…) than in

real life. a) Yes b) No

• 5. When your internet is down or your computer is broken, it literally throws you

into a panic. a) Yes b) No

• 6. Do you spend more than three hours a day surfing the Web? a) Yes b) No
• 7. Do you lie about the amount of time you spend on computer activities? a) Yes b) No
• 8. Do you skip meals or eat at your computer so that you can stay online? a) Yes b) No
• 9. Do you experience a sense of euphoria, excitement or relief when you're at the computer? a) Yes b) No

Results:

• If you gave 0-3 “A” Answers
• Congratulations! You probably have very little tendency to waste time surfing the net.
• You probably do exotic things like reading books and going outside and speaking to
• people face-to-face.
• If you gave 4-6 “A”Answers
• You like the internet..a lot...But you're not addicted to it. You have a balanced
• relationship with your online use, and that's a good thing.
• If you gave 7-9 “A” Answers
• The Internet has become a part of your daily life. You know your way around a
• computer, so if anyone needed tech-help, you would be the one to choose! But please,
• GET OFF THE COMPUTER AND DO ANYTHING ELSE!!!

Virtual Reality

Advantages

Disadvantages

You can learn the latest news

Access useful information

Can spread violence, pornography and advertising

Communicate with friends

Exercises in killing rather than in thinking

Watch films

People can mix the real world with the virtual one

Doctors can practise operations on different parts of human bodies

Do much harm to our health

…

…

Change the forms of the given words to make the text lexically correct

We've got rid of some diseases thanks to success discoveries and inventions in biology and medicine. The progress has already changed people's lives and made it much longer. Life is becoming more and more active so it's not the time to stop. Are any breakthroughs possible? The sphere which is under a great interest now is medicine. People want to live longer, healthier, and happier. That's why scientists all over the world are working on parts of body made artificial

Fortunate , we are not able to grow artificial liver, lungs or other important organs for transplantation still, but for now a piece of liver has been grown. Such an implant can help in recover of damaged parts in future. Besides, artificial skin has been grown in Italian Laboratory in Pomezia which is definite progress. Moreover, the research of an eye is taking place in several directions, and one of them is bionic eye: that is an electronic camera combined with the chip implanted

into the retina. The success is already registered in grow retina on mice.

Complete the sentences with the given words and word combinations. There are some extra options

False, artificial, progress, industries, develop, factories, research, invented, experiments, machine, modern, new, engine, discovered

Due to fast scientific ________ very soon we'll have technology which will help people to live longer and more happily.

I've bought a _____ laptop recently because my cat's broken the one I had before.

Google is the most popular search ___________ according to the statistic.

More than 10 years' _____________ in medicine allowed to get great results in understanding viruses.

Unfortunately, a lot of people who _________ useful devices have stayed unknown.

Alexander Fleming ________________ penicillin by chance.

Thousands of unsuccessful _______________ allowed us to refuse that idea.

Alice by Yandex is a great example of ________________________ intelligence.

In some ________________ eco-friendly equipment is used, which allows to save up resources and implement reusing techniques.

Drones and robots will help us to __________________ spheres dangerous for people.

To begin with,... To start with,... In the first place,... First of all,... Finally,... Last, ...

Besides, ...also ... In addition, ... What is more, ... Moreover, ...  More than that, ... Furthermore, ...