DEVICES
What does the word ‘device’ mean?
Name the devices you have.
Name the devices that you use most in a day.
Name the devices that you don’t use in a day.
Do you really need all those devices?
Read and understand the following text, and say why such a glossary has appeared.
iPhone glossary
1)
iPhone
Pretty much the coolest portable gadget ever made. It has only one button and everything else
is operated by the touch screen. It's an iPod, a phone, and an Internet browser. It can also be a
remote control, computer mouse, electric razor, mouse trap, a taser, deodorant, hand grenade, and
gives you eternal life.
2)
iPhone addiction
iPhone addiction is a condition created where you find it impossible to sit your iPhone down for
even a second, the need to look for new apps, use existing ones, text messaging, checking your
facebook, reading email, etc. It overwhelms you and eventually you fall into your own world where it's
just you and your iPhone. At that point you’ve become an iPhone Addict with a serious addiction and
need to seek help. In this case iPhone accessory giveaways can act as a medication to the problem.
3)
iPhone Fever
When someone purchases an iPhone and becomes completely obsessed with it. They orient
their life around the iPhone.
4)
iPhone-it
The act of using an iPhone to gather information, like directions, movie times, etc.
5)
iPhone Guy
The guy who owns an iPhone and wants everyone to know. For him, it's a status symbol that he
can afford a $150 phone. Whenever anyone asks a question to which the answer is unclear, always
responds ‘let me check my iPhone’.
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6)
iPhone smart
Used to describe the wealth of knowledge someone brings to the table, only on the basis of
ownership of an iPhone.
7)
iPhone slave
A person who uses an iPhone.
8)
iPhonatic
A person who is overly attached to his/her iPhone.
9)
iPhobia
The fear of dropping, scratching or damaging your iPhone.
10)
Ipheezy
Slang for the iPhone.
11)
iPhone 5С
The iPhone 5C revolutionizes the iPhone market forever. Changes: new colours. Ok, come
back next year for the exact same thing again.
12)
iPhone 6
A waste of money.
13)
iPhone 7, etc.
iPhone 77 hasn't been defined yet. Can you define it?
Do you use this app?
Why don’t people use this app frequently?
How can you characterize the people who never discover this app?
1. Find the phrase in the text, then complete it.
1.
a status symbol
2.
accessory giveaways
3.
brings to the table
4.
completely obsessed with
5.
need to seek help
6.
overly attached to
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7.
portable gadget
8.
revolutionizes the … market
9.
to sit … down for
10. wealth of knowledge
Make your own sentences with the given expressions.
2. Fill the gaps in the sentences using these key words from the text.
iPhone (2)
iPhone addict
iPhone fever
iPhone-it
iPhone Guy
iPhone smart
iPhone slave
iPhobia
iPheezy
iPhone 5C
iPhonatic
1)
1: ‘Johnny really knows his way around the city. He must have lived there for years. He
knew when all the train schedules on my line, and the best restaurants.’
2: ‘Not really. He's just ______________.’
2)
A: Hey buddy, heard you got a new cell phone, what is it?
B: Yea, check this out.
A: Not ______________ again, your such an ______________.
3)
Cam: Hey, did you hear? Jessie got an Iphone.
Burte: Oh boy... Guess we won't see him anymore. He's gonna catch _____________ :(
4)
Greger has an ______________, but not an ______________.
5)
John: Mike, we're going to a nightclub. You bring a girl with you?
Mike: No, I have my ______________ .
6)
Person #1: Where's the nearest supermarket?
Person #2: Hold on, I'll ______________.
7)
She is such an ______________; she takes it into the bathroom.
8)
She's got an extreme ______________ when it comes to her phone.
9)
Showing a picture to friends an ______________ says: ‘I took this picture on my
iPhone, doesn't it look great?’
10)
The ______________ is your wife, husband, boyfriend, or girlfriend that is constantly on
their iPhone and dismisses everything that is going on around them.
3. According to the text are these statements true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false ones,
and answer the questions.
1.
iPhobia is a state of the firm believe that iPhone dropping, scratching or damaging will never
happen.
Can you define iPhilia?
2.
iPhonatic is a person who is overly attached to his/her iPhone.
How will you call a person who is overly attached to his/her Samsung/ Lenovo/ LG, etc.
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3.
iPhone 5С revolutionizes the battery technology market forever.
What does your phone revolutionize?
4.
iPhone addiction is a condition created where you find it possible to sit your iPhone down for
even a week.
Provide examples of other kinds of technical addictions. What do they mean?
5.
In case of Iphone Fever you orient your life around the iPhone.
What does it mean?
6.
An iPhone Guy owns an iPhone and wants everyone to know.
Describe an iPhone Guy. And does an iPhone Girl exist? What kind of person is she?
7.
iPhone has only one button and everything else is operated by it.
How is this button called? What is it for?
8.
iPhone is a status symbol for an iPhone guy, and that status he can afford for $150.
What kind of devices is a status symbol in your country?
9.
iPhone is the most awful fixed widget ever made.
What gadgets do you consider awful, and what cool?
10. iPhone destroys you and eventually you no longer belong to your own world.
Name 5 devices that have ever overwhelmed you.
11. iPhone-it is an act of using an iPhone to gather information, like directions, movie times, etc.
What is yourphone-it?
4. Make up your own glossary for a user of any other mobile phone brand. Use words and
expressions from the text and Ex. 1-3.
MUSIC CORNER
1. What do you associate (the first things that comes into your mind) the word „online‟
with?
2. Skim over Brad Paisley's Online lyrics.
I work down at the pizza pit
And I drive an old Hyundai
I still live with my mom and dad
I’m 5'3 and overweight
I'm a Sci-fi fanatic
Mild asthmatic
Never been to 2nd base
But there's a whole another me
That you need to see
Go check out MySpace
'Cause online I'm out in Hollywood
I'm 6'5 and I look damn good
I drive a Maserati
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I'm a black belt in Karate
And I love a good glass of wine
It turns girls on that I'm mysterious
I tell 'em I don't want nothing serious
'Cause even on a slow day I can have a three way
Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online
So much cooler online
I get home, I kiss my mom
And she fixes me a snack
I head down to my basement bedroom
And fire up the Mac
In real life the only time I
Ever even been to LA
Was when I got the chance with the marching band
To play tuba in the Rose Parade.
Online I live in Malibu
I posed for Calvin Kline, I've been in GQ
I'm single and I'm rich
And I got a set of six pack abs that'll blow your mind
It turns girls on that I'm mysterious
I tell 'em I don't want nothing serious
'Cause even on a slow day I can have a three way
Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online
Yeah I'm cooler online
When you got my kinda stats, it's hard to get a date
Let alone a real girlfriend
But I grow another foot
And I lose a bunch of weight every time I log in
Online I'm out in Hollywood
I'm 6'5 and I look damn good
Even on a slow day, I can have a three way
Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online
Yeah I'm cooler online
I'm so much cooler online
Yeah I'm cooler online
3. There are two lives of a character: Online and Offline. List their ingredients.
4. Watch Brad Paisley's Online. Write down ten phrases (five for each life) which best
describe the atmosphere and the meaning of being Online and Offline for this guy.
5. Compare and contrast two lives:
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 give a brief description of them
 what they have in common
 what way they are different
 what life you’d prefer
 explain why
6. There is such an expression “a taste of life”. What does it mean? Does offline life taste
or only online one? List tastes of two lives.
VOCABULARY
1. Correct the spelling
It’s hard to veiebel that no one had computers a few years ago. I wonder how people lived.
There must have been a lot of pkwoerrpa. I can’t imagine writing everything by hand. I also wonder
how
everything rkodwe without
computers.
We
need
computers
today
for
everything.
Hospitals, sotripra, the police… nothing can work without computers. I’m sure I’d be ten
times beuris than now if I didn’t have a computer. Imagine having to find a ipeec of paper and
an oveelnpe and then walking down the street to mail a letter! I love my computer. It makes
everything in my life so ncenvotine.
Sure, it zeefsre and sacrhes sometimes. Sure I lose some data. But that’s not often. Most of
the time my computer is like my best friend.
2. Synonym match:
1)
backup
a) a postcard created using digital media
2)
bug
b) a place on a disk for holding multiple files
3)
to crash
c) a button
4)
data
d) a computer program that is intended to prevent the computer
from working normally
5)
to download
e) an error in a computer program or system
6)
e-card
f) a mobile phone used as a small computer and connects to the
Internet
7)
file
g) a set of pages of information on the Internet about a particular
subject
8)
folder
h) a general-purpose computer, used at home
9)
hard disk
i) a set of keys used to input information to a computer
10) icon
j) a copy of a file or other item of data made in case the original
is lost or damaged
11) key
k) a small, flat computer that is controlled by touching the screen
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12) keyboard
l) a portable personal computer with a clamshell form
13) laptop
m) information stored on a computer as one unit with one name
14) personal computer
n) a small picture of a program, option, or window
15) smart phone
o) pieces of information
16) tablet
p) a device fixed inside a computer for storing programs and
information
17) virus
q) to copy (data) from one computer system to another or to a
disk
18) website
r) to fail suddenly
3. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box. Mind the word form.
backup
website
to crash
to download
e-card
file
folder
icon
key
keyboard
laptop
virus
external hard disk
1.
‘I can’t find the letter I wrote to Judy anywhere on this computer.’
‘Wasn’t it a ______________ called Judy.docx? I think you saved it in the ______________
called Holidays.’
2.
Apparently there’s a terrible new computer ______________ that can destroy all the
information on your hard disk. The newspapers call it the Letter Bug.
3.
I can’t afford to buy new computer games so I ______________ them from the Internet.
4.
Computers are great but when they ______________, you can lose a lot of your data.
5.
I found a really interesting ______________ yesterday with details of jobs and courses
abroad. It’s called www.jobshop.com.
6.
If you want to open Google Chrome, click on the ______________.
7.
It’s too late to send Jasmine a birthday card to arrive by tomorrow. Let’s send her an
______________ instead.
8.
I’ve just bought a ______________ computer so I can write letters and articles while I’m
on my round the world trip.
9.
The ______________ is the part of the computer that you type on.
10.
To get a capital letter, press the shift ______________ and the letter you want.
11.
We have all our dictionaries and encyclopedias on ______________. They take up less
space than books.
12.
You should always make a ______________ of the work you do on the computer. Then
if the computer crashes, you won’t lose the work.
4. Do a crossword.
Across
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4. The system for using computers to send messages over the Internet. (5)
6. A directory containing related files or documents. (6)
8. A flat surface, as part of a computer, on which words, picture, etc are shown. (6)
9. The programs and other operating information used by a computer. (8)
10. An act of pressing a button on a mouse. (5)
12. Or to power off a computer, i. e. to remove power from a computer's main components in a
controlled way. (8)
13. To remove (data) from a computer's memory. (6)
16. Once it was in the top 6 Internet browsers. But by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared due to
the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser software. (8))
18. A small picture or symbol on a computer screen that you point to and click on (= press) with a
mouse to give the computer an instruction. (4)
19. Abbreviation for Uniform Resource Locator, which is an address on the World Wide Web. (3)
20. To make (a data file) inaccessible after use, so that it is securely stored until required again. (5)
21. To kill (a file or process) or to wipe (a disk). (5)
24. In a computer, it is the part that processes all the data and makes the computer work (an
abbreviation). (3)
25. A file or program that can be uploaded to your computer from the Internet or disk. This file or
program is uploaded without your knowledge and is intended to do damage to your computer. (5)
26. WWW stands for the World Wide… . (3)
Down
1. To keep information by moving a copy to a storage location. (4)
2. The most widely used operating system for personal computers from Microsoft. (7)
3. A piece of computer software that you use to search for information on the Internet. (7)
5. This stands for one million hertz – a measure of the clock speed of a computer. (3)
7. An electronic machine that is used for storing, organizing, and finding words, numbers, and
pictures, for doing calculations, and for controlling other machines. (8)
10. This kind of Internet connection is much faster than dial up Internet access. You can also watch tv
on it. (5)
11. Abbreviation for Internet Service Provider. (3)
13. A view on a computer screen that contains icons representing files, programs, and other features
of the computer. (7)
14. To change (text) on a computer. (4)
15. A list of choices. Each choice represents something that you can do using the computer. (4)
17. A movable indicator on a computer screen used to show the position, for example, where typed
text will be inserted. (6)
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20. To fail suddenly, for example, when anything no longer works correctly and you 'lose' all the work
you've done since the last time you saved. (5) 22. A long, thin strip at the side of a computer window,
used for moving its contents up, down, or across. (9)
23. To move (an image or highlighted text) across a computer screen using a tool such as a mouse.
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5. Comparison game. Complete the table.
similarity
difference
smart phone
tablet
laptop
personal computer
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SPEAKING AND WRITING
1. Lots of devices make life better and easier. But there are others people wonder why
someone has come up with them. Take a look at some of such devices. Give them a
name. Say how, when, where to use them. How much they cost. What kind of people is
in need of them.
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2. Come up with a new device. Draw a picture of it. Give it a name. Write a user guide for
it.
3. Look at the chart below. It shows the average time people spent daily using various
forms of media.
What can you see from the chart? Comment on its information.
4. Compile a similar chart for you. Give the reasons why you spend much or little time
using these forms of media.
5. Complete two diagrams:
Device 
 device
6. Create a Cinquain poem.
1 line – device.
2 line – 3 adjectives.
3 line – 3 verbs.
4 line – 3 nouns.
5 line – conclusion.
7. Device Survey.
Write five GOOD questions about devices. When you have finished, interview other students.
Write down their answers.
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student 1
student 2
student 3
Q.1.
Q.2.
Q.3.
Q.4.
Q.5.
Make a mini-presentation on your findings.
8. Write a letter to a device expert. Ask him/her three questions about devices. Give
him/her three of your opinions on it.
9. Browse the Internet for articles related to different kinds of devices. Write your findings
about them in the table.
Device
Advantages
Disadvantages
Make a mini-presentation on your findings.
10. Conversation questions:
 What is a computer / a mobile phone / any other device for you?
 When did you use a computer / a mobile phone / any other device for the first time? What was
it like? How did it differ from the one you have now?
 How useful are computers / mobile phones / other devices to you?
 What is the best thing about a computer / a mobile phone / any other device?
 What is the worst thing about computers / mobile phones / other devices?
 Are there any features on your computer / mobile phone / other devices you don’t need?
 What would you like computers / mobile phone / other devices to do that they can’t do now?
 What is software?
 What is your favorite piece of software / application?
 What is the greatest piece of software ever created?
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 Do you ever worry about other people listening to your mobile telephone conversations /
looking at your mobile phone / computer activities when you are in public?
 Do you prefer watching movies or playing video games? Why?
 Do people’s personality change when they’re gaming?
 What is your favorite website? Why do you like it?
 Would you like to have your own website? What for? What would it be like?
 Which computer / mobile phone / any other device maker is the best?
 What would you miss most if your computer / mobile phone / other devices were taken away?
 What was life like before computers / mobile phones / other devices?
 What would your life be like without your computer / mobile phone / other devices?
 Do you think computers / mobile phones will always look similar to the way they do now? How
will they change?
11.
Comment on the following statements.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
All for one, one for all, that is our device.
I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence.
My phone died so I spent some time with my family today. They seem like nice people.
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
Today even kids have iPhones. When I was a kid, I felt cool with my new pencils.
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same
information.
12. Choose one of the following „device‟ activities. Make up a dialogue of about ten or
twelve lines on it.
1) Send or receive text messages;
2) Access the internet;
3) Send and receive emails;
4) Download apps;
5) Get directions or recommendations;
6) Listen to music;
7) Participate in a video call;
8) Watch videos;
9) Play games.
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AUDIO CORNER
1. Listen to a man, speaking about smartphone addiction and the negative effects of
social media on the society. Write down his ideas.
1)
He gets on the train to work, takes a look around him… And what does he see?
2)
What kind of game does he offer to play?
3)
People can't be separated from smartphones. What is it like for them?
4)
Smartphones themselves are not the problem. But what is the problem?
5)
Why has he been criticized for being hypocritical?
6)
What is Facebook to him?
7)
Why does he fear for the future of the children being born now – digital natives as they are
known?
8)
He says, ‘I don't know what it's like to live in a world without …’ – without what devices?
9)
But he doesn't get cravings to …
10) And what do addicted smartphone Facebook users do?
11) Is Facebook a form of entertainment? What is it?
12) We really don't have to worry about keeping computers busy. They keep us busy. We are
their…
13) Why have smartphones also blurred the lines between work and home?
14) He says he sees people compulsively reaching for their smartphones. What is the next step?
15) How close will technology and social media be to people?
16) The next generation could be enslaved to social networks for …
17) There's a problem: the degradation of the meaning of the word … and the devaluation ….
18) He can completely empathize with someone who says that if they leave their mobile phone at
home they will feel anxious because they won't be able to contact someone in an emergency;
but not with someone who says …
19) People can't go extended periods without being able to receive …
20) So he has decided enough is enough. And…
2. Do you agree or disagree with his ideas?
3. He thinks that due to smartphones we lose the very things that make a splash in blood.
What does he mean? What are the very things that make a splash in blood?
4. He says, „If I go to bed tonight and slip into a coma to awake thirty years from now I will
find…‟ What will he find?
5. Write an essay “Devices of the 22nd century”.
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DRAMA CORNER
1. Work in groups. Create a story of conversation between people and devices.
Put down:
Characters' Names.
Words that describe them physically: age, height, weight, hair color, etc.
Words that describe them psychologically, emotionally.
Summarize what will happen in your story.
2. Dramatise your stories.
READING, WRITING, SPEAKING
1. Read the questionnaire, and answer the question: Do you think you are addicted to
your smartphone or not?
1)
Do you look at your smartphone before you roll out of bed in the morning?
2)
Do you get excited when your smartphone rings?
3)
If you’re in a public place by yourself, do you look at your smartphone so you don’t feel
so lonely?
4)
Do you often think you hear your smartphone ringing or feel it vibrating in your pocket
when it was really nothing?
5)
Do you feel lonely if your smartphone doesn’t ring for several hours?
6)
If your smartphone rings in the middle of any important meeting, have you ever taken it
out to see what it is?
7)
Do you regularly text, e-mail, surf the web, etc at transport?
8)
Do you frequently use your smartphone in classroom?
9)
Do you often use your phone for social networking (WeChat, Viber, Whatsapp,
Facebook, Weibo, Forum etc)?
10)
Do you quite often use your phone for playing games?
11)
Have you ever sent an e-mail, Tweet, or Facebook message, etc from your smartphone
when there was a computer in the same room you could have sent it from?
12)
Is it painful for you to think about what your life would be like without your smartphone?
13)
Do you charge the phone every day?
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14)
Do you have a name for your cell phone?
2. Draw up a questionnaire to figure out if a person is addicted to any other device. Use
verb forms that talk about future in your questions.
3. Read the text, say who you think won the gender argument.
Is a Computer a He or a She?
A pastor of a church who was previously a sailor, was very aware that ships are addressed as
‘she’, and ‘her’. He often wondered what gender computers should be addressed. To answer that
question, he set up two groups of computer experts. The first was comprised of women, and the
second of men. Each group was asked to recommend whether computers should be referred to in
the feminine gender, or the masculine gender. They were asked to give 4 reasons for their
recommendation.
The group of women reported that computers should be referred to in the masculine gender
because:
1)
In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.
2)
They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves.
3)
They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they are the problem.
4)
As soon as you commit to one, you realize that, if you had waited a little longer you
could have had a better model.
The men, on the other hand, concluded that computers should be referred to in the feminine
gender because:
1)
No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2)
The
native
language
they
use
to
communicate
with
other
computers
is
incomprehensible to everyone else.
3)
Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
4)
As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your
paycheque on accessories for it.
4. Give some more reasons why computers must be female or male.
5. Work in groups. Choose any three devices and specify their gender. Share your ideas
with the others.
6. Write about any device that will change the world in the future for 10 minutes. Show a
fellow student your paper. Correct each other‟s work.
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VIDEO CORNER
1. You will watch some video files. Your task is to choose one to write a magazine article
about it.
2. Read your article to the other students. Give each other feedback on your articles.
3. You will watch two videos. They show how kids and elders react to technology. Do you
have any idea why people react differently to technology?
4. Watch the videos and fill in the table.
Elders
functioning of
the device
expressions
they use to
react to it
devices from
their childhood
conclusions
they draw
Kids
functioning of
the device
expressions
they use to
react to it
conclusions
they draw
5. How would you react to a 1970's era computer? How would your grandparents react to
Google Glass? Make a list of expressions you and they would use to react.
6. Write a 200 word essay „Life without Modern Gadgets‟.
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