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2 6
U N IT 3 INFORMATION AGE

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P r e s e n t i n g a n e w t e c h d e v i c e
1 W o rk in p a irs and c r e a te a n e w te c h n o lo g y . D is c u s s th e
c a te g o rie s in th e c h a rt and s ta r t to p la n y o u r te c h n o lo g y .
LESSON 6 Project
Tell th e ty p e of technology
(machine, digital, com puter, robot)
Explain w h at your technology is for
(education, entertainm ent, health, business, 
home life, school life)
D escribe w h at your technology can do
Give your technology a nam e
2 S h a re y o u r id e a w ith th e c la s s . U se th e fo llo w in g as a m o d e l:
Our new technology is ... . It is fo r ... . This technology can ... .
We named it ... . Our technology is necessary because ... .
3 V o te f o r th e b e s t te c h n o lo g y . W rite th e n a m e s o f th e te c h n o lo g y
y o u v o te f o r in e a c h c a te g o ry . T hen ta k e a c la s s v o te to c h o o s e
th e b e s t te c h d e v ic e .
1) M ost creative 2) M ost useful 3) M ost interesting/fun 4) I want one right now!
Unit 3 • Lesson 3
3 a W o rk in p a irs . Read w h a t p e o p le w r ite to th e ir n e w s p a p e r.
A s k and a n s w e r to c o m p le te th e s e n te n c e s .
P u p il B: lo o k a t th is p a g e . A s k a b o u t A b b y a n d M r S m ith .
e .g . When did Abby hope to becom e the youngest person to sail round 
the world alone?
My nam e’s Lewis. In Iceland, superm arkets have a plastic bottle system. 
The shoppers get 10p fo r every plastic bottle they recycle at a special 
machine. The superm arket has sold 311,500 bottles since the system 
began last year. That means that people had more than £30,000 fo r their 
actions to help nature.
I’m Freya. Some of my friends and I learn to swim. But fo r our lesson we 
fly across the North Sea from a Scottish Island! It takes 25 minutes to get 
Shetland with our teacher and we travel 55 miles!
My nam e’s Abby. In ... (1 When) I hoped to become the youngest person 
to sail round the world alone. But I d id n ’t do it because the sea was too 
dangerous. In the sea people took me to the other ship. 
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years later some 
people saw ... (2 What) near the coast of Australia.
I’m Mr Smith. Two very special Socorro dove chicks appeared at Chester 
Zoo. The chicks haven’t been found in the wild fo r ... (3 How long) years. 
There are few er than 200 of them in the world and all are living in human 
care. People in Socorro Island, near Mexico, try to make a ... (4 What kind 
of) place fo r the doves.