UNIT
11

Teacher: Bui Thi Chin

Technolagy
LESSON 7:
LOOKING BACK

1. Write the correct form of the words in brackets.
1. My friend said he really enjoyed doing (science)
_____________ experiments
and finding out how things worked.
scientific
2. Production of these chemicals causes serious
environmental
(environment)________________  pollution.
3. There have been major new (develop) ____________  
developments in space
research and satellite technology.
4. It is known that new scientific (discover)__________ 
dicoveries are being
made all the time.
5. It seems (natural)___________  for
a child to spend so much time
unnatural
by himself or herself.

Science and technology:
engineering
farming
home life
entertainment
Science and technology energy
medicine
space exploration
communication
architecture
leisure

3. Complete the word web…

Thomas Edison was one of the greatest inventors of the world. He was
responsible for more than one thousand (1) ____________ including
the
inventions
electric light bulb and the record player. He also created the world's first
industrial research (2) ____________ 
laboratory Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio,
USA. When he was 10 years old, he set up a small laboratory after he had
read a (3)________ book
his mother showed him. In 1869, he borrowed
Science
some money and began to make inventions. In 1876 he built a new
laboratory so that he could spend all his time (4)_____________.
He
inventing
planned to turn out minor inventions every ten days and a 'big trick' every
six months. He developed many devices that brought
great (5) ____________ to
people's life. He once said that the value of an
benefits
idea lay in the using of it. Edison died in 1931, after having a
remarkably (6) ___________ life.
productive

4. Change the sentences into repoted speech.

1.“They are doing an experiment.”
they were doing an experiment.
=>He said that __________________________________.
2.“You have to sign the paper again.”
=>She told me __________________________________
that I had to sign the paper again.
3.“We watched a television documentary on the future of nuclear power.”
=>Tam said ______________________________
that the 10 o'clock flight to Kuala Lumpur would be an hour late.
4.“The 10 o'clock flight to Kuala Lumpur will be an hour late.”
=>They announced _______________________________
that they had watched a television documentary on
the future of nuclear power.
5.“In 50 years' time we may be living on the moon.”
=>Scientists said that  in
_____________________________________________
50 years' time we might be living on the moon.

5. Rewrite these sentences in direct speech.
Example:  Louise told me that he had rung me the night before.
→ Louise: “I rang you last night.”
1. Kien said that he had missed the train.
→ Kien said, “I missed/ have missed the train.”
2. Duong said that he could run very fast.
→ Duong said, “I can run very fast.”

3. Mia told me that she would hand in the report the next day.
→“I'll hand in the report tomorrow,” Mia told me.
4. She said that she was reading a science fiction book about life on Venus.
→ She said, “I'm reading a science fiction book about life on Venus.”
5. He told me he would be a lawyer when he grew up.
→“I'll be a lawyer when I grow up,” he told me.

6. Write one prediction…

Education/ food/ leisure/ energy/ home life/ transport/ communication
• Example: In transport, we will probably travel faster and further in flying cars
and spaceships.
- In education, we will probably have no
• Cues
schools. We will learn lessons on the
Internet.
-solar energy all year round
- For food, we will probably use nutrion pills
-no schools, lessons on the Net
instead of normal food.
-nutrition pills instead of normal - For leisure, we will probably watch 5Dfood
cinema at home.
- In energy, energy saving devices will be
-5D-cinema at homehome
used in home and industry.
-security protection with cameras
- In home life, robots will probably do the
-entertainment centre at home
household chores.
- In communication, email will probably
-smart phone app
replace snail mail.

Homework:
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Practice listening
Write again
Do exercise part E in workbook
Prepare the Looking back and project.