TOMORROW'S WORLD Before reading check these words in the dictionary
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develop textiles, generate electricity, monitor
fitness, spray-on fabric, minute fibres, dry instantly,
turn into, garment, dissolve, booth, drop in, look
into, bandage, fully-functional, lighter, no assembly
required, endless possibilities, cartridge, skin graft,
immersive gameplay, take sth to the next level,
lightweight, surgeon, audience Прочитай и переведи текст. Запиши перевод в тетрадь. Пришли свой перевод вместе с заданием на проверку
What technology do you use? What games do you
play? Let's take a look into tomorrow to see what
everyday life will be like in the (very near) future.
What will we be wearing in
the future? While some
scientists are developing
textiles that allow the wearer
to generate electricity as
they walk and others are
working on clothes that
monitor your fitness, Dr
Manel Torres and Prof Paul
Luckham have invented a
spray-on fabric. The spray contains minute cotton, wool, linen
or acrylic fibres that dry instantly on your skin and turn into
garments like T-shirts or tops. You can wear it, wash it and wear
it again - just like the rest of the clothes in your wardrobe. Then,
when you get bored, you can dissolve it and use the material
again to make something new. Fabrican took ten years to
develop and Dr Torres hopes that in the future there will be
spray booths in stores where you can drop in to design
something new. They are also looking into its use for spray-on
bandages and furniture coverings. So forget about that walk-in
wardrobe because with Fabrican, all you need is a shelf. Read again and for
questions 1-7, choose from the
texts (A-C).
Which text mentions:
robust material?
a form of recycling?
a potential first-aid use?
treasure-hunting?
a machine which needs
putting together?
an easy way to go
shopping?
an invention with
limitless potential?
1. What new invention was Alexander Bell using when he said, "Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you"?
Answer: Alexander Bell was using the telephone.
2. When Titanic hit an iceberg in 1912, where was it travelling to?
It was travelling to the USA.
3. When Neil Armstrong said, "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind", where was he standing?
He was standing on the moon.
4. Where was Isaac Newton sitting when he discovered gravity?
He was sitting in his garden at Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham in Lincolnshire.
5. Where was Mark Zuckerberg studying when he invented Facebook?
He was studying at Harvard.
6. Where were people celebrating the new millennium when they took this picture?
They were celebrating the new millennium in Sydney, Australia.
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