UNIT 5 TECHNOLOGY AND YOU

Tick the column that matches the sound in. the italicized letter(s).

/ u /
/u:/

/ u /
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shook
boot
full
rude
true
football
July
shoe
look
put


good
soup
should
wool
through
school
wood
push
fruit
fool



Below you have some of the amazing achievements of modern technology. Match the names in column A with the definitions in column B.
1. video recorder a. a kind of sophisticated typewriter using a computer
2. photocopier b. machine which records and plays back sound
3. fax machine c. a machine which records and plays back sound and pictures
4. tape recorder d. a camera which records. Moving. Pictures and sound
5. modem e. a machine for chopping up, slicing, mashing, blending.
6. camcorder f. a machine which makes copies of documents
7. word processor g. a machine which makes copies. of documents and sends them down telephone lines to another place
8. food processor h. a piece of equipment allowing you to send information from one computer down telephone lines to another computer.
Complete the second sentence so that it follows on from the first. Use the present perfect.
My hair is tidy now. I`ve brushed my hair.
The door is open. Someone _________ the door.
This is Oliver`s drawing. Look! Oliver _________a picture.
The calculator is broken. Someone_________ the calculator.
United are the winners. United _________ the game.
There`s no more wine in the bottle. We_________ all the Wine.
The floor is clean now. I _________the floor.
8. I know my number now. I ____________ number by heart.
9. The guests are here now. The guests_______________
10. John is still working on the computer. I __________ with the computer yet.
Read the following passage and put the verbs in the correct form, present perfect or past simple.
Twenty years ago few people (1)...............(realize) that computers were about to become part of our daily lives. This short period of time (2)............(see) enormous changes, in business. Education and administration. jobs which (3).........(take) weeks to complete in the past, are now carried out in minutes. Clerks who (4).......... (spend) all day copying and checking calculations are now freed from these tedious tasks. In offices, the soft hum and clicking of word processors (5)...........(replace) the clatter of typewriters. Schoolchildren (6)..........(become) as familiar with hardware and software as their parents (7) ........ (be) with pencils and exercise books. Computerization of public records (8)........(enable) government departments to analyze the needs of citizens in detail. Some of us may wonder, however, whether life (9)............(really/ improve) as a result of these chimes. Many jobs (10)............... (disappear), for example, when intelligent machines (11).........(take) over the work. Employers complain that clerical staff (12)...........(become) dependent on calculators and cannot do simple arithmetic. There are fears that government (13)...............(not/do) enough to ensure that personal information held on computers is really kept secret. Certainly, many people may now be wondering whether the spread of computers (14)............(bring) us as many problems as it (15).............. (solve).
Use the words and phrases to make sentences in the present perfect passive. Make any other necessary changes and additions.
1. These words/ spell / wrongly?
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Mike/ offer/ opportunity / study abroad.
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The package/ deliver/ yet?
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Have you heard about David / He/ attack/ a bull.
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Three hostages/ murder/ terrorists.
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Millions of pounds` worth of damage/ cause / a storm.
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Me house at the end of the street / sell / last month.
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you / ever bite/ a dog?
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These machines / not use / at least five years.
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The road / block / an hour / after / accident.
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Fill in the blank with a verb from the box in the correct tense of the passive. Use each verb once only.

do used to drink pay freeze beat
cut blow down collect speak leave


1. Mary kept trying to talk to me while my hair
This money box ____________ for two years.
A lot of trees in the storm last summer.
Those suitcases behind if you aren`t careful.
The rent______________, I think.
Spanish differently in Spain and in Colombia.
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