2. Answer the following questions.

1. Who was the television invented by?

2. When was the first petrol driven car produced ?

3. When was camera photography produced?

4. Who was the telephone invented by?

5. When was the computer designed?

3Read this extract. In pairs discuss the advantages and disadvantages of television and its effects in your life.

The first commercial television broadcast was made on April 20, 1939 by Radio Corporation of American (RCA). Since 1939, it has become one of the most important facts of modern life. Television is very much a part of the modern world. Its effects are felt all over the world.

Television is a reflection of the modern world, say some people. It shows contemporary society. It effects customs and culture, others say. Television is bad for culture because it keeps culture from growing, say still others.

Good or bad, television is difficult to avoid. Its pictures enter homes, stores, airports and factories. We can’t imagine our lives without television, that is definitely true.

SPEAKING. Discuss these questions with your partner.

a) What is the most important inventions for you. Why?

b) What the most incredible building you have ever seen?

2 Which of the four inventions do you think is the best. When and where did they invent?

3 Complete the questions with the words in the box. Ask and answer the questions with your partner.

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1. Do you drive fast and enjoy overtaking other cars?

2. Has your car ever broken _______?

3. When was the last time you ran out of______?

4. Do you always go to work/college in the rush______?

5. Are there a lot of traffic ______ in your city?

WRITING. 1 Rewrite the sentences from active into passive. Match the inventions with the inventors.

1. Karl Benz produced the world’s first petrol-driven motor car in Germany in 1885

2. In 1981 Bill Gates invented Microsoft –DOS. (Disk operating System) (TheUSA)

3. In 1908 James M. Spangler from the USA built the first vacuum cleaner.

4. Sergei Korolev designed the first artificial satellite in 1957. (Russia)

2 Write the words in the correct order to make sentences .

1. were in the Many mistakes made last dictation by the pupils

2. a well-known was written The story by writer.

3. by workers in 3 months The house will be built

4. the by zoo-keepers zoo are fed At twice a day animals

5. has been The magazine read by of our class all the pupils

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3 Write the description of a building in you town (5-6 sentences) Questions for computer based test

1`. The Eiffel Tower ____ in 1889

1. was built

2. built

3. were built

4. is built

2. Australia_____ by Capitan Cook in 1770

1. was discovered

2. were discovered

3. is discovered

4. are discovered

3.These songs ______ last year

1. was recorded

2. recorded

3. is recorded

4. were recorded

4.Most children _____ in state schools.

a) are educated

b) were educated

c) is educated

d) was educated