Unit 1: Technology

Photocopier Vacuum cleaner Calculator

Cell phone Air-Conditioner Refrigerator

 Activity 2:
printer
1. You can use a_________for printing text on paper.

2.Air-conditioner
___________can make the weather cooler.
calculator
3. A_________can help you if you have problems with maths.
television watch your favorite programs or shows.
4. You can use a_______to
washing machine can help you if you have dirty clothes.
5. A______________

6. Aloud speaker used in public places for announcing things,

_____________is
playing music, etc.

cell phone talking to someone else over long

7. You can use a___________for
distance.
Activity 3: Answer the questions about the passage.
1. Who first sent a picture over wires?
Caselli was the first person to send a picture over wires.

2. The word television was first used in …

The first International Congress of Electricity

3. The 1900 World’s fair was in …

The World’s Fair was held in Paris, France, in the year 1900.

4. Who invented the photo phone?

Alexander Graham Bell

5. How many TVs were in the US in 1945?

Before 1947, there were only a few thousand televisions
in the U.S.
นามนับได้เอกพจน์
นามนับไม่ได้

นามนับได้พหู พจน์
Countable and Uncountable Noun
• Countable nouns are for things we can count using
numbers.
• They have a singular and a plural form.
Ex: a pencil 5 pencils
a book 8 books
a house 3 houses
Countable and uncountable Noun
• Uncountable nouns are for the things that we
cannot count with numbers.
• Uncountable nouns usually do not have a plural
form.
A glass of milk นม 1 แก ้ว
A bar of soap สบู่ 1 ก ้อน
2 bowls of soup ซุป 2 ถ ้วย
Negative [ There was + not + a นามนับได ้เอกพจน์/any นามนับ
ไม่ได ้ ] เช่น
There wasn’t a phone in my bedroom.
There wasn’t any water in the glass.
[ There were + not + any นามนับได ้พหูพจน์ ] เช่น
There weren’t any tables in the kitchen.

Question [ Was there + a นามนับได ้เอกพจน์/any นาม

นับไม่ได ้ + ? ] เช่น
Was there a toilet nearby here?
Was there any advice from the boss?
How much sugar was there?
[ Were there + any + นามนับได ้พหูพจน์ + ? ]
Were there any chairs for us in that room?
How many tables were there at the party?
*** any ใช้ก ับ พหู พจน์และนามนับไม่ได้ ในประโยคปฏิเสธและ
 รูปเอกพจน์แต่ใช ้ใน
There was ความหมายพหูพจน์
There were Cattle, Majority,
people
There were
รูปพหูพจน์แต่ใช ้ใน
There wasn’t ความหมายเอกพจน์
Statistics,
Was there Mathematics, Sciences
was there
was there
นามนับ
Were there ไม่ได ้
Was there
Was there
 There was
1 __________________a terrible earthquake in 2005.
Was there
2 __________________a fruit that you liked?
There weren’t
3 ______________________any oranges left.
4 How many boys __________________in
were there the garden?
Was there
5 __________________any there wasn’t
wine left in the bottle?
there wasn’t
No, __________________
Were Lucy,
6 I phoned therebut __________________anybody at home.
there were
7 __________________many clouds in the sky?
There
8 Last night, was
__________________quite a few children at the
There were
cinema.
9 __________________a large queue at the bank.
10 _____________________many cats available for adoption at
the shelter.
 Relative
relative Clause
pronounis used to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun. The
elative•pronoun
They actually
are mostplaysoften
the role of a noun
used in the clause.
to define or identify the
noun
he relative pronouns: ่ ่
that precedes them. ใช้ขยายคานามทีอยู
ข้า งหน้
ใช ้กับ
า
Subject Object Possessive
คน who whom, who whose
ใช ้กับ
สัตว ์ which which
หรือ that that
่
สิงของ
We use who and whom
Example: Doforyou
people
knowandthe
which
girlforwho
things.
started in grade 7
lastforweek?
We use that people or things.
Can I have the pencil that I gave you this
morning?
A notebook is a computer which can be carried
Activity 7
1. That’s the CPUwhich/that
_____________I’d like to buy.
2. Here’s the DVD______________you
which/that lent me.
3. Last night I met someone________works
who for
GM as a computer programmer.
4. A co-processor is an extra processor which/that
chip___________ does calculations at high
speed.
Exercise 2
Activity 8
1. ___
c A photocopier is a machine
2. b A remote control is a device
___
3. d
___ A drill is a tool
4. e
___ A speedometer is an instrument
a
5. ___ An iPod is a type of MP3 player
1. A photocopier is a machine which/that makes
copies of documents, such as letters.
2. A remote control is a device which/that controls
things, such as televisions, from a distance.
3. A drill is a tool which/that you use for making
holes.
4. A speedometer is an instrument which/that tells
you how fast you are travelling in a car or a
plane.
5. An iPod is a type of MP3 player which/that is
made by Apple.
Review
Directions: Put the words in order to make
definitions.
1. Gold is a metal which is used to make jewellery.
2. A washing machine is a machine that washes
clothes.
3. An Elephant is a very large animal which lives in
Africa.
4. Hurricane is a tropical storm that causes a lot of
damage.
5. A robot is a kind of machine that works like a
Review
Complete the sentences using was or were.
1. There were four cinemas in Sosnowiec in 2004.
2. There was a disco at Charsznica yesterday.
3. There was a Chinese restaurant in Olkusz in 2001.
4. There was one tailor in my village 10 years ago.
5. There were many children in the park yesterday.
6. There were five elephants in the zoo in Cracow five
months ago.
Review
1. You can carry it easily in your pocket. portable
It is _________.
2. I don’t know where we are. We are completely lost
________. accurate
3. My watch is not very_________. It is ten minutes slow
at the moment.
calculate
4. How can you__________the
launch average age of people in
the class?
5. They use rockets to___________the satellite into
place.
Review
6. I knowexactly
_________where we are. We are here – on this
street. network
7. The Worlddistance
Wide Web is an international_________of
computer. device
8. What’s the____________from your home to the
college?
locate
9. A tin-opener is a very simple_________, but a very
important one.
10. In the past, sailors and travellers used the sun and the
stars to________their position.
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