Lesson 7 unintended consequenses look at the following photos and try to guess a general message

LESSON 7 UNINTENDED CONSEQUENSES

Look at the following photos and try to guess a general message



Ex1 Work in groups of 4/5. Think and write some inventions or discoveries of humanity in history which brought unintended consequences.

A popular invention, discovery or an event	Unintended consequences
an atom 2.	a terrifying weapon/atom bomb 2.
3.	3.
4.	4.

1. 
   Match the words 1-13 with the appropriate definitions a-m.
   

1. to harm	a. to begin something such as a plan or introduce something new such as a product;
2. to alter	b. the time of year when crops are cut and collected from the fields;
3. to exploit	c. to eat or drink especially a lot of something;
4. harvest	d. the state of having no food for a long period often causing death;
5. a sparrow	e. no longer existing;
6. to launch	f, to hurt someone or damage something;
7. exhaustion	■ g. to control or limit something that is not wanted;
8. extinct	h. an amount of something positive such as food or profit, that is produced or supplied;
9. starvation	i. when insects come together in a large group;
10. to swarm	j. to change something, usually slightly, or to cause characteristics of something to change;
11. a yield	k. a small grey-brown bird which is especially common in towns;
12. to consume	1. a condition of extremely being tired;
13. to curb	m. to use something for advantage;

2. 
   (T2) Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks with appropriate words and phrases.
   

Chinese farmers were not (a) with the little harvest they gathered in 1958. Calculation showed that (b) kg of grain was eaten by each sparrow. Under the influence of sparrow grain seed eating habit a Chinese leader Mao Zedong ordered the (c) of sparrows. The whole (d) __________ killed hundreds of millions of sparrows. Ways of (e) __________included breaking eggs, killing chicks as well as shooting sparrows down from the sky. On December 13, sparrows were terrorized by children, workers, farmers holding their pots and pans (f)_________ birds’ landing. Result of these efforts was a nearly (g)____________ of sparrows in China. Sparrows were replaced with another type of crop eater, a large type of grasshopper population (h) . In 1960, it became known that sparrows ate also (i) which made Mao Zedong order to stop Great Sparrow War.

9. Read the texts and fill in the gaps with appropriate ‘consequences’ from the box below.

Consider the development of a nuclear power plant at an ocean site. The anticipated and intended goal or consequence 'is the production of electric power. The undesired but common and expected consequence is the heating of the ocean water near the plant. An undesired and improbable consequence

Number of prohibiting laws of human actions like selling alcohol drinks, birth, abortion also have unintended results. In the history keeping domestic animals was banned in cities, thinking of making cities more modern and cultural and to increase intelligence. People disposed them off after tax had been set for keeping them. Human stupidity as the results of running after beauty.

Most modern technologies have negative consequences that are both unavoidable and unpredictable. For example, almost are the unexpected consequences of the application of modern technologies. Invention of the automobiles resulted

One of the innovations - the Internet has already had an impact on a human life significantly. It changed the ways in which we meet each other, the ways we run business, the ways we share information, and many more. Still, all of this is surely only the small tip of a huge iceberg, . We cannot begin to anticipate the consequences of this technology. is also unintended consequence of the e-mail service. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi abilities are not detected fully.

The other technology which has stirred the public imagination in this century is the cloning of animals, and the possibility that we may eventually be able to clone human beings. Who knows what consequences it may bring?

Another much desired technology is robot. People expect robots as their helpers or slaves and are going to have much happier life. If we look at peoples’ dependency on computers today, it is difficult to anticipate if or vice versa.