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POPULAR TEENAGE INVENTIONS BEFORE READING & In pairs, name a few recent inventions and tell your classmates how READING €2 q a ais $08 ead the text quickly and check your precictions in Exercises 3 and 5. ’ | POPULAR TEENAGE INVENTIONS fir Lirgenfedler L ca ‘fom Harover, Pearsy¥ane, ingentatder, mn ip er he 2013 vty Wei Gams. Bertse Se sinays liked paying hand-clp dames Lehlbanpetl aio gernenne play wth, Aca west is game et oe jwihen : fends ight ue “The game's an dectnnic mad. A pelt ‘As you read, underline players clap ane ther in ive to the mec. the main ideas in the didnt know text. Then, organize poate asia rg a EO ed the main points in a what ty do with those ideas. Sai visual diagram or table By Kies for Kid tvok.cor) anne, company sd in your notebook. and sole kids’ inventions. final product prototype ~ a model that shows wha he an adr setups boeta pdt fr nen { Ardrew Subher bd =, I. eee ‘Tho years 290 because Ardkow Suthatang’s Fench leecher Give hin ast of 111 Fench animal ‘memorie,be had eee oie pobie e © oN is proyamming shits Now Andrea junior at Albany High Seto h Schoo, Calla, has ara ttle wh si post ora To use it sou entor the data you nged to - cit wi it dus trac ste tke be do ee Hn omertos ts Aer You got wrong, Program retests you on the questions Andrew has some athice tor invertors; “Look at ry fe, adie someting taincove ta il bit Adapted from: Bellis, M. (n.c.) inventors. Retrieved April 24, 2013, from: http:/! inventors. about com/od/inventorsalphabetita/popularinventor htm is ee Read the text again and choose the best altemative to complete the sentences. a, Who are the two inventors? Two high school students. |. Two junior school students. i. A junior school student and a high schoo! student. b. Where are the two inventors from? i. Both from the USA. |. Both from France. |. One from the USA and one from France. c. Why did Ana invent the toy? i. She always had friends to play with, . She always had to play alone. iii, She sometimes had te play alone. d. What did Ana take to a toy company? Her final product. |. Amodel of her invention. i. The patent of her invention. . Why did Andrew develop his invention? i. He had to learn about animals. He had to leam a list of words. i. He had to practice programming skills. Read the text again. Number the events about both inventions in chronological order. a. Ana's invention i. Ana always liked hand-clap games. |. Ana made a model of her invention i. Ana wants to gel a patent. iv. Ana didn’t always have friends to play with. v. Ana took her invention to a toy company, = —__ b. Andrew's invention i. The program retests you on the questions you got wrong. ———— ii, It generates tests. i. It tums the information into flash cards. LET'S READ? iv, To use this program, you enter the data. Reading baokiet conection Page 6 Read the extract of this science fiction story about technological advances, and answer the questions. Read the text once more. Answer these questions and create two more on your own. Write the new questions in your notebook. a. What does bktk stand for? b. What is a prototype? ip What motivated the young inventors profiled in the text? Share your comments with your classmates. Have you ever felt motivated to Discuss in your group: invent something? What was your motivation? = Do these inventions contribute to the 7 Why? LANGUAGE SPOT sae nost felevant invention. 1. Revise these sentences from the text and other examples. Pay special attention to the word in bold. a. Because she always liked playing hand-clap games but didn’t always have someone to play with, Ana invented ‘this game, that allows kids to play alone. b.Jenny phoned me because she needed some advice. 2. Answer these questions. a. What does the word because introduce? Choose an ahemative Acontrast. ‘Ateason. ‘Aconsequence. NOTE: the order in which we can express the ideas can vary.

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