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Vocabulary tasks:

7. Answer the following questions to the text.

  1. What is Chernobyl?

Chernobyl was a nuclear power station in Ukraine where the accident happened.

  1. What conclusion did British scientists make?

They decided that the power station was dangerous, because the reactor did not have enough protection in case anything went wrong.

  1. Who reported an increase in radioactivity?

Sweden, Denmark and Norway reported an increase in radioactivity

  1. When did President Mikhail Gorbachev tell the people about the accident?

It was eighteen days before President Mikhail Gorbachev finally told the people of the USSR about the accident.

  1. What did Chernobyl disaster cause?

  1. It caused that the air, food and water around Chernobyl were radioactive, and that it was dangerous for people to stay there. The Chernobyl disaster had many effects on the electricity industry everywhere in the world.

8. Are the following statements about the text true or false?

  1. Nuclear power is a way of making electricity. -True

  2. British scientists had looked at the design of power station and decided that it not was dangerous.-False

  3. First the radioactivity was noticed at the Forsmark nuclear power station. -True

  4. The Chernobyl disaster had many effects on the electricity industry everywhere in the world.-True

  5. The alternative types of energy are wind power and power from the heat of the sun.- True

9. Match the first part of the sentence (1 –6) with the second part (a-f).

1.c We use electricity in our homes and in industry.

2.f The reactor did not have enough protection.

3. a They changed the pressure in one reactor.

4.e The scientists and the government did not want to say about accident

5. d People in Kyiv wondered why there were no buses in their city.

6. b The scientists at the power station carried dangerous experiments

10. Complete the sentences with words from the box.

disaster - radiation - discovered - nuclear power – radioactivity - accident

  1. After the Chernobyl disaster, many people told their governments that they did not want nuclear power.

  2. Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie discovered radium.

  3. People thought that leukaemia was caused by radiation .

  4. In parts of East Germany radioactivity was 100 times the normal level.

  5. It seems that nobody was killed directly as a result of the accident .

  6. Doctors believe that the Chernobyl disaster has caused at least 5, 000 cancer deaths in Europe.

Speaking task:

11. Talk about the keywords you should use to find information on mobile phones that connect to the Internet.

If I need to find information on mobiles phones that connect to the Internet, I’ll use many different keywords depending on some peculiarities. If I want to know about different types of mobile phones, I’ll use such words as mobile devices, a smartphone, multitouch smartphones or a feature phone. I think it’s very important to know some technical properties of the mobile devices: download request/response times, the latency of over-the-air data transmission, memory etc. It’ll be necessary to find out information about the types of connection: a mobile network or a wireless network. I’ll also search information about different mobile operating systems, and browsers and their peculiarities. I’d like to know if the mobile phones support a wide variety of other services such as text messaging, MMS, email, short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), business applications, gaming and photography

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