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UNIT 11: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED

1. Listen and read

What can you see
in the pictures?
Do you know
these characters?

Where are they now?
What are they talking
about? ...

* VOCABULARY

- enormous (adj): To lớn, khổng lồ
- spaceship (n): du thuyền không gian
= area
- field (n):
công nghệ
- technology (n):
- crop yield (n):
năng suất cây trồng
- development (n):

Sự phát triển

Listen to the conversation between Duong,
Nick , Chau and Dr. Nelson

1.a) Find the words in A in the conversation. Then match
them to the words in B with similar meanings.
A
A
1: Developments
1.developments
2. Field

2. field
3.Enormous
3.
enormous
4. Economic
5.The
keys
4. economic
6. Benefits
5. the keys
6. benefits

BB
The answers
a.a.the
answers

b. Area

b. area
c. Progress (n)
c.d.progress
(n)
Big
Money-making
d.e.big
Help
e.f. money-making
f. help

1. b) Answer the questions.
1. Where are Nick, Duong and Chau?
They are at the Science Club
2. What is the subject of Dr. Nelson's talk?
It is the roles of science and technology in the 21st century.
3. What fields are science and technology greatly changing?
Science and technology are changing everything.
4. What did Nick's dad tell him?
He told Nick that only robots would work in factories and clean
our homes in the future.
5. What did Chau's science teacher say?
His teacher said that there would be no more schools: They'd
just stay at home and learn on the internet.

1.C. Work with a partner. What fields are
mentioned in the conversation which are affected
by science and technology?
travel

Education

Economy
Workplace

Home

1. d) Put a word/phrase from the box in each blank.
flying cars
field

economic development
space
the key

field of telecommunications ( vi ễn thông) has
1. Technology in the _____
developed greatly over the last decade.

2. In the future, ordinary people may travel into _____
space on spaceships.
3. He said he worked very hard and that was ______
the key to his success.
4. An international meeting on ___________________
economic development took place in
Singapore last week.
5. If we had __________
now, we could solve the problem of traffic
flying cars
jams.

SCIENCE - TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE: Knowledge about the

world, especially based on
examining, testing, and proving
facts.
TECHNOLOGY: Things and ways
of doing things that are based on

2. Put one of the words/phrases from the box in each gap.
There is one extra.
science subjects
technology
machines
scientific progress

technique
researchers

1. Her teacher said she was really good at ______________ , but she was
not very good at English
2. Advances in __________ have improved crop yields by over 30%
3. Cancer ___________ have made great progress, but many aspects of this
disease need further study.
4. Scientific will be trying to invent _______ to teach children at home.
5. Thanks to _________________, our world will be transformed greatly.

We add prefix im-/ un- to make a word
have the opposite meaning

Ex: happy >< unhappy
realistic >< unrealistic
important >< unimportant
possible >< impossible

3. Give the opposite of the words in brackets, using the
prefix “un-” or “im-”
1. This is a species of insect previously (known) unknown
_______ to biologists.
2. I don't like science fiction novels much. I think they are (realistic)
___________.
unrealistic
3. It is almost (possible) __________
impossible to keep up with the latest developments in
computing.
4. The teacher said that accurate measurement was (important) unimportant
___________ this
experiment.
5. Fortunately, the river flowing through our town is (polluted) __________.
unpolluted

4. Game: Find someone who….
Ask your classmates YES/ NO
questions, using do or will. If they
say YES, write their names in the
box.

AT H
OME
Learn by heart new words.
Find more words with un-/ im Prepare next lesson 2. A closer look 1