UNIT 4-Medina
UNIT 4-Medina
UNIT 4-Medina
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Lesson 4A
Vocabulary
Listening
Listen to the audio and fill in the blanks.
The clock struck twelve and people worldwide wondered what the new decade
has in store for us. Many hope the 2020s will improve things for the
And the Earth. The 2010s were little chaotic. Global warming put our
existence in danger; 1 WAS CONTINUE around the world; millions 2 STILL
LIKE clean water and education; and thousands of species became extinct.
Technology and more cooperation between nations will hopefully make the
2020s better.
A technology 3 _wed side predicted our lives will be more like science
fiction. It wrote: "The decade will take us even further toward a world were
far-out ideas like hooking 4 brings up _ , and even immortality, become
topics of serious conversation." A futurologist wrote about flings come and
5 unlimited energy. He said: "The 2020s will be when the incredible promise
of technology finally happen." Let's talk in 2030 to see if this comes true.
Writing
1. Touch jet ware: It is relevant because it is a smart TV from which you can manage different
things in an idle way and with a very sophisticated interface, you can get applications that
you can interact with your own TV, allows linkage with any electronic device that
can control from my cell phone.
2. Lamps with water and salt: a project that tries to supply light to communities or villages that
have very difficult access to electricity. They work with salt and water. Their promoters claim
that with this energy source they can provide light eight hours a day for six months, which is the
time in which the consumables need to be replaced.
3 Solar mobile chargers
A battery portable which enable charge the mobile no need for electricity.
The simple process is put the movil in the windows, a car or another place sun visible because this
charguer use energy sun. A energy more accessible and much cheaper.
It´s a inventt next to be created, in the actuality in the world exist a lot of differents charge portables
but pollute a lot and they are more disposable. For other face the solar mobile chargers, is a alternative
ecologic for the enviroment and economic.
4 Super speed shoes This invention would be very good since it would help us to carry out our activities in
a faster way it will be great if this invention is known and used by all.
It would also be one of the inventions that would help all the people who have many earrings It would
help them to be able to move to their jobs or schools You could also add a variety of speed, color, size or
design to this invention could have a mechanism that helps us eliminate calories and thus avoid obesity. I
am sure that in the future it will be a good invention. (Ivonne Medina)
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Lesson 4B
Listening
Listen to the audio. Anne talks about her New Year’s Resolutions. Mark
true or false the following sentences.
B. Listen to the audio again and fill in the missing words in each
sentence.
Finish the story of the visit to the fortune teller. You can give
the final you want according to the previous text. Use will and
be going to. Your composition must have 120 words.
Remember to give details to support your story.
1. This was a man who lived in a small town, and he
boasted of being a great clairvoyant. Every day people
went to see him in the square, so that he would predict
the future. The man read the palms of their hands, threw
the cards and looked into their crystal ball, before
answering them in a mysterious voice about the
surprises that fate had in store for them.
2. In the afternoon a girl called him on his cell phone and he answered and said,
"Hello, this is the psychic line, how can I help you?
-Hello Phillipa! I would like to know more about my future, I was wondering if I
will find true love?
-Ok, before I start telling you about your future, I need your credit card
information, isn't it ok?
Look, I'm paying for this call and this is too much!
-Don't worry about it. Let's talk about your future and I'm sensing that you're in a
relationship.
3. The fortune teller tired of works every day making known the difference
problems, an fortunes, a relationship, an economic and more, of the persons. A
day she will decide lie to a client.
They day arrived, she will speak to a client about your future. She be going to
say in 3 days you will win the lottery, but before you can to me 5000 dollars to
fulfill it. Because after this she be going to escape to the montains, she be goint
to find findthe Liberty.
4. The woman insists on knowing who that man will be who will come into her life without
giving her card details.The seer told her that if she did not do it, she would lose the arrival of
that man in her life, so the woman gave her enough money so that the seer continues telling his
fortune in love.The seer informed the woman that for two days that man would arrive, the
woman was very excited and blinded by the desire to have a love, she did not think that it would
be a scam since she trusted a lot in fate and luck Disappointed, the woman realized that she had
been scammed and that love would never come.(Ivonne Medina)
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