UNIT 5 TECHNOLOGY AND YOU

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

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shook
boot
full
rude
true
foothall
July
shoe
look
put


good
soup
should
wool
through
school
wood
push
fruit
fool



II. Below you have some of the amazing achievements of modern technology. Match the names in column A with the definitions in column B.
A B
1. video recorder a. a kind of sophisticated typewriter using a computer
2. photocopier b. a 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, ect
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.
III. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words in the box. Use your dictionary if you need.
laptops hard downloaded virus Internet scanner
websites floppy surfing software chat forum
1. It’s so easy to use a ______ when you want to send photographs to friends by e-mail. It’s just like using a photocopier.
2. I’ve lost a lot of data. I wonder if my computer has a ______.
3. I’m always impressed by people who carry their ______ on aeroplanes and work on them during the flight.
4. Those ______ disks don’t store nearly enough information. You really need to use your ______ disk for all the data you want to store.
5. If you want some photos of the USA, you could just try ______ the Web. You’ll be amazed how many you can find.
6. I belong to a great ______. There are about ten people who are all interested in 1960s music. We e-mail one another almost every day, and can talk live to one another.
7. I ______ a good program from the Internet the other day. Would you like a copy ?
8. Do you ever visit any ______ for pop stars or film stars ? Some of them have photos and music too.
9. ______ is the programs that you put into a computer to make it run.
10. Students should be encouraged to use the ______ as a resource.
IV. Complete the second sentence so that it follows on from the first. Use the present perfect.
1. My hair is tidy now. I’ve brushed my hair.
2. The door is open. Someone ______ the door.
3. This is Oliver’s drawing, look. Oliver ______ a picture.
4. The calculator is broken. Someone ______ the calculator.
5. United are the winners. United ______ the game.
6. There’s no more wine in the bottle. We ______ all the wine.
7. The floor is clean now. I ______ the floor.
8. I know my number now. I ______ my number by heart.
9. The guests are here now. The guests ______.
10. I’m still working on the computer. I ______ with the computer yet.
V. 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. Computerisation of public records (8) ______ (enable) government departments to analyse the needs of citizens in detail. Some of us may wonder, however, whether life (9) ______ (really / improve) as a result of these changes. 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