Стр.30-31 Модуль 2 ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 9 класс

2b Science fiction to fact

1. Reading 1

   Read the introduction and the subheadings. Which device:

   • can help you travel through time;
   • can make you disappear;
   • enables you to control electrical items using your brain;
   • replicates different foods?

   Listen and read to find out.

2. Read the text again. For questions 1–10, choose from the texts (A–D). The texts may be chosen more than once.

   1. makes some people concerned about using it?
   2. works like something from the natural world?
   3. have not been successfully tested yet?
   4. was demonstrated on the internet?
   5. uses body processes to work?
   6. will have been the inventor’s main focus?
   7. was originally intended for another use?
   8. can improve life for some groups of people?

Vocabulary

3. Complete with: pay, beam, facial, severely, brain, mind, main, gaming.

   1. ______ signals
   2. ______ movements
   3. ______ industry
   4. ______ disabled
   5. ______ control
   6. ______ the price
   7. ______ course
   8. ______ of light

4. Replace the words: replicated, demonstrated, swirled, levitated, cracked, emerged from, inserted, stimulate.

   1. The magician has floated over the Grand Canyon.
   2. The chip will be put under the skin.
   3. The scientist explained how to use the machine.
   4. They hope to have found the secret code soon.
   5. They reproduced the scene in search of evidence.
   6. The magnetic headset is designed to provoke your brain.
   7. The fog moved round and round over the boats.
   8. The photographer came out of the dark room.

Grammar

Future Perfect/Future Continuous/Future Perfect Continuous

5. a) Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Perfect, the Future Continuous or the Future Perfect Continuous.

   1. A: How long have you been experimenting with nanotechnology?

      B: By the end of the month, I ______ on it for three years.

   2. A: Will you be seeing Sarah at the lab later?

      B: No. By the time we get there, she ______.

   3. A: By the end of the century, we ______ a time machine.

      B: I’m not sure. I think we ______ on it.

   b) What will you be doing this time next weekend? What will you have done by the age of 25?

Speaking & Writing

6. Think! Which of the inventions in the texts would you like to try out the most? Why? Write a few sentences in your notebook. Tell your partner.
7. What invention from science fiction would you like to see become a reality in our everyday lives and why? Write a paragraph about this in your notebook, then read it to the class.