Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Lesson 15
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L A T E S T A C H I E V E M E N T S
O BJECTIVES
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have an idea about the latest achievements in different spheres
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the usage of the 3rd conditional
• 
practice creative and imaginative writing
Skills to be practiced: listening, speaking, reading, writing 
STAR TER
a. Focus students’ attention on the photos. They match the pictures A-B 
with the pictures in the second line.
1. b 
2. c 
3. a
b. Pairwork. Let students their decisions with their partners and answer 
the questions.
LISTENING
1. A sk students to sort out and put the words given below in 
relevant line so they make a synonym group.
speculation
thought
contemplation
theory
to have craving for
want
desire
demand
piles
heap
mass
stack
implement
tool
instrument
utensil
immense
vast
huge
enormous
foster
nurture
encourage
breakthrough
outbreak
achievement
ultimately
eventually
finally
2. Play the tape. While listening ask students to number the 
sentences according to their order in the listening material.
1. The thing we would like to do is speculation but not philosophical 
issue of the topic.
2. First computers were huge in size.
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3. Several decades ago, calculation was accomplished without 
calculators.
4. Registration processes would be much longer.
5. There would be less female employees.
6. Typewriters were prototypes of modem PC.
7. Nowadays people do not appreciate the capabilities of recent 
inventions
TAPESCRIPT
What if a computer hadn’t been invented?
One may say: “Things are the way they are, and unlikely would be 
the other way” However, the matter we would like to concem is not 
philosophy. The speculation is on how would it have tumed out without 
an issue, the usability and access of which we take for granted.
Originally, the idea stems from the development of space program. 
Craving for space exploration brought humanity to many inventions that 
are now, not a bit associated with space. Our devices, like laptops and 
iPod, are predated by the workable computer unit that used to be the size 
of a big hall.
Our grandparents were taught how to operate an abacus, not calculators 
that seems inconceivable at the time being. Furthermore, many adults 
don’t know how to operate a computer in a competent manner.
So where would the world be if there were no computers? It probably 
be less busy place. Offices would have had different fumiture, more 
shelves, less tables, piles of files and papers all around. Cinemas and 
theatres would become more popular; streets would be noisier as poor 
clerks would have operated as distributors as well. Less convenient living 
and working places and vehicle, nonstop ringtones and time-consuming 
registration processes. Less women would have worked at the offices 
because of tougher housekeeping conditions. Lower production rate at 
the factories would have caused higher prices. There wouldn’t be any 
mobile phones to say nothing of intemet or computer games. Lacking 
leisure activities would lead to the increase of crime rate.
Obviously, present-day generation would concem these as something 
incredible, but the fact is that previous generation used to experience 
that life. If to ask they may describe a fairy like story of own childhood, 
when juniors used to believe that computer was the unnatural implement

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of an evil named Fantomas. The only thing that would slightly resemble 
computer at that time was a typewriter. All the documents and files were 
organized using it, when, a single punctuation mistake caused retyping 
the whole document.
All the same, computes are the result of human mind and if once it 
has brought to existence no doubt that further achievements in science 
and technology will bring immense inventions.
We are seldombothered about how achievements in science contribute 
our lifestyle and what it would have happened if they hadn’t been there. 
Major breakthroughs in science ultimately foster global development 
and enhance the routine of individuals.