Week 1 Class 1

Student Worksheet
 Culture Shock

Reading

a. Think of a time when you went to another country or another city/region in your
country for the first time. Was there anything that surprised you?
b. Read some posts on a forum. Which topic don' t they mention?

Clothes exercise food health money transport

c. Read the posts again. Match sentences 1-9 to the people who said them, L (Lena), R
(Rahim), N (Natasha), T (Tara), or J (Julie).

1. People can earn good salaries without working hard.

2. Sorne people don't dress warmly in winter.
3. The President isn't paid very well.
4. People don't always speak politely to older people
5. People have really big portions when they eat out.
6. Soe hospitals are incredibly luxurious.
7. You can travel safely on public transport.
8. Doctors speak very openly to their patients.
9. You pay people well to do their job, and then you give them more money.

d. Look again at sentences 1-9 about the USA. Are they true in your country? lf not, say
why.

e. Learn these words and phrases related to money. What do they mean? How do you
pronounce them?

salary /ˈsæləri/
insurance /ɪnˈʃʊrəns/
trip /trɪp/

earn money /ɜrn ˈmʌni/

pay bills /peɪ bɪlz/
pay rent /peɪ rɛnt/
 Grammar Adverbs

Part 1. Look at the highlighted phrases with adverbs in sentences 1-9 in in the previous
exercise. Choose a or b to complete the rules.

Regular adverbs: 1. Use of adverbs 2. Position of adverbs

An adverb is Adverbs describe Adverbs go
a. adjective + -ly. a. Nouns a. Before a verb or verb
b. adjective + lly. b. B. Verbs, adjectives, or phrase
other adverbs. b. After a verbs of verb
phrase
Adverbs go
a. Before another adverb
or adjective
b. After another adverb or
adjective

Part 2. Listen and say what's happening. Use an adverb. (Track 11.3)

Listening and Pronunciation

Jack Horton lives in San José in Costa Rica, where he teaches

computer science at a secondary school.

Part a. Listen to Jack talking about what surprised him when he arrived in Costa Rica. In
general, is he positive, negative, or neutral about living there? (Track 11.4)

Part b. You're going to hear eight three - and four-word phrases that Jack says, linking the
words. Listen and write the phrases.

Part c. Listen to the whole interview again. Then, with a partner, complete the sentences.
The people (the ticos)
1. They are much______________than people in Europe.
2. Pura vida really means 'things ______________ ______________’ .
3. Thy are often ______________ for appointments because they use “tico time”.

The weather
4. The temperature is about ______________ ______________ all year round.
5. In September and October, it ______________ really ______________ for two
hours a day.

The country
6. The scenery is even ______________ ______________than he expected.
7. He was ______________ ______________ the first time a volcano erupted.

The food
8. The only things you can buy cheaply are ______________, ______________, and
______________.
9. He really likes the ______________.

San José
10. He thinks it's probably ______________.
11. The roads are ______________.

Part d. Would you like to go to Costa Rica for a holiday? Would you like to live there? PPT
Vocabulary and Speaking
Common Adverbs

Answer the questions in small groups. If the answer is yes, give more details. If no, say
how they do these things. How about you?

Do you think people in your country... ?

drive dangerously
speak foreign languages fluently
treat tourists well
talk loudly
work hard
take life seriously
treat people in shops and restaurants politely
dress well
wait patiently in queues behave calmly in a crisis
 Artificial Intelligence – Reading
Part 1. Warm-up
How advanced do you think technology will be in 2030? Give a few examples of how you
think mobile phones, computers, the Internet, etc. will be used in the future.

Part 2. Science and technology

Complete the sentences below with the following words, using a dictionary to help you if
necessary:

advanced artificial intelligence chip miniaturisation

molecule replicates retrieves speech recognition

a. If technology is ________________, it is highly developed.

b. If a machine or virus ________________, it makes an exact copy of itself.

c. The process of making things very small using modern technology is called ________________ .

d. A ________________ is a very small electrical component or circuit, made of a semi-conducting

material such as silicon.

e. A ________________ is the smallest unit of a chemical substance, composed of two or more

atoms.

f. The ability of a machine to perform actions that require human intelligence is called
________________ .

g. The ability of a machine to identify spoken words and phrases is called ________________ .

h. If a computer ________________ information, it finds the data in its memory and makes it
available.
Part 3. Predict the answers

Read the following statements and decide if they are true or false. Then read the article
on the next page and compare your answers with the experts’ predictions:

a. Computing power could reach the level of human intelligence

before 2030. T/F

b. There will be less technical progress in the 21st century than in the
20th century. T/F

c. In the near future, machines will be able to replicate among

themselves. T/F

d. Future chips will be based on biological molecules instead of

silicon. T/F

e. Machines will only be able to store and retrieve information better

than humans. They will never reach other levels of human
intelligence. T/F

f. People will soon be living together with intelligent machines T/F

Part 4. Find the words Find a word or phrase in the text which means

1. made a lot of progress (phrase, SUBTITLE) ____________________

2. happening or developing faster and faster (verb -ing, P5) ____________________

3. build something from different parts (verb, P7) ____________________

4. to think about the future (phrasal verb, P9) ____________________

5. something that exists (noun, P9) ____________________

6. go past something after reaching the same level as it (verb, P10) ________________
 Computers ‘to match human brains’
Computing has come a long way since the first time a computer beat world chess champion
Garry Kasparov in 1996.
1. Computer power will match the intelligence of
human beings within the next 20 years, according to
a leading scientific "futurologist".
2. There will be 32 times more technical progress
during the next half century than there was in the
whole of the 20th century. As a result, artificial
intelligence could be as advanced as human
intelligence by the 2020s, said the American
computer guru Ray Kurzweil.
3. Machines will become smarter than humans and
will soon be able to solve some of the most difficult
problems of the 21st century, said Dr Kurzweil, one
of the most radical thinkers in the field of
technological prediction.
4. Dr Kurzweil was originally a pioneer in various
fields of computing and automatic speech
recognition by machine. In his speech to the
American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS), he described a future where
machines will be far more intelligent than humans as
they learn how to communicate, teach and replicate
among themselves.
5. His prediction is based on the fact that the
computer chip has doubled in power every two
years for the past half century, which has led to
accelerating progress and miniaturisation.
6. Dr Kurzweil told the annual meeting of the AAAS
in Boston: "in the next half century, there will be 32
times more technical progress than the last half
7. Computers have so far been based on
twodimensional chips made from silicon, but three-
dimensional chips with greatly improved performances
are being developed. There are even plans to construct
them out of biological molecules that can be
miniaturised even more than metal-based computer
chips.
8. "The hardware for machines with human-level
intelligence will be based on three-dimensional,
molecular computing. The software will be developed
by studying and analysing the human brain in detail.
Already, 24 regions of the human brain have been
modelled and simulated," he said.
9. Although the brain is not as efficient as a computer
at storing and retrieving information, it can associate
different pieces of information, look ahead and plan. It
can also be imaginative and creative, which is at the
heart of human existence. But Dr Kurzweil is one of
several computer scientists who believe that computers
will soon create a "post-human" world where a second,
intelligent being exists next to people.
10. "When non-biological intelligence matches the level
of human intelligence, it will very quickly overtake it
because of continuing technological progress, as well as
the ability of machines to instantly share their
knowledge," Dr Kurzweil said.
Adapted from The Independent, 16 February 2008, by
Steve Connor
century. Computing, communication, biological
technologies and human knowledge in general are
all accelerating fast."