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Just imagine the amount of inventions of the 20th century. Some people think that technology will save the world and make it better, some others think that technology will ruin the society because we are too dependent on electric and electronic gadgets and machines.

What do you mean?
- Paper cups were invented by one young man Hugh Moore in 1900. He wanted travellers to drink water which would be germ-free.

I choose the only one?
- Try to choose.
- But I can’t. I couldn’t even imagine my life without a computer, a mobile, the Internet, a washing machine… It would be a Stone Age.

junk?
- I don’t think that any inventions could be really useless. Even if it is thought to be useless now people will find how and where use it later. As for me, I can’t imagine our life without all high-tech things. I can’t sacrifice anything. Especially my mobile. My parents can get in touch with me anytime.

leader.

The first group will write and name three things that you can hardly live without.
The second group will write and name three things that you can sacrifice without too much reluctance.
The third group will choose three the most useful modern inventions and say why people use them.

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Past Simple – was/were + V3
Present Perfect – have/has been + V3
Past Perfect – had been + V3
Future Simple – will be + V3
Present Continuous – am, is, are being + V3

century?

Photocopier — G.C. Beidler — USA—1903
Diesel — Rudolph Diesel — Germany —1892
Laser — Theodore H. Maiman — USA—1960
Kodak camera — George Eastman — USA—1888
Colour television — John Lodgie Baird — Scotland—1928
Lego bricks — Ole Kirst Christiansen — Denmark—1955
Telegraph — Samuel F. B. Morse — USA—1837
Typewriter — Christopher Sholes and two of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule — USA —the 1860s
Steam engine — James Watt — Scotland—1765

Birdseye — Canada—1914-1917
Tyres —Joy Boyd Dunlop — Scotland —1888
Electric cell — Alexander Volta — Italy —1800
Video cassette tape recorder system — Sony — Japan —1975
Telescope — Hans Lippershey — Netherlands—1608
Digital stereo sound system — the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) — Great Britain —1990
Canned food — Henry John Heinz — USA—1869
Match —John Walker — England —1827
Trainers — big companies like Nike, Reebok and Adidas — USA/ Germany — the early 80s
Instant coffee — "Nestle" — Sweden — 1937
Hamburger — McDonald — USA — 1954
Helicopter — I. Sykorsky — Russia —1939

be built) by 1974.
The first small computer (to be built) by research engineer Ed Roberts in 1975.
Nearly two dozen patents (to be earned_ by Doug Engelhart before he (to introduce) the computer mouse.
Some people think that everything that can be invented (to be invented).

principles (to be adopted) by countless other industries.
Nylon (to be invented) in 1938.
Though the first human heart (to be transplanted) in 1967 a lot of experiments (to be carried out) ever since 1905.
People hope that new medicines (to be discovered) and dangerous diseases (to be cured).

spend her first salary. Discuss the following options and choose one you both like most of all:
Computer TV-set
Refrigerator Microwave oven

R: ex.3