UNIT 11-TUẦN 2

Exercise 3: Read and complete the text with the words in the box.

blender	efficient	people	printers
scientists	popular	favourite	environment

3D PRINTING

3D printing is becoming more and more (1) ....................... We are now able to print things such as clothing, prosthetic limbs, musical instruments and prototype cars. People and businesses are able to create the things they need very quickly and easily using 3D (2) .......................

But can you imagine printing food? Some (3) ....................... are trying to revolutionise the dining experience by doing this. They hope that having a 3D printer in the kitchen will become as commonplace as the microwave or (4) ....................... Scientists say that they are easy to use: you simply have to select a recipe and put the raw food ‘inks’ into the printer. You can also modify the instructions to make the food exactly how you want it. This means that it would be very quick and easy to create tasty and nutritious meals.

Using 3D printers to create your meals would also be saving the (5) ....................... There would be less need for traditional growing, transporting and packagingprocesses as food production would be a lot more (6) ....................... For example, alternative ingredients such as proteins from algae, beetroot leaves and insects could be converted into tasty products!

Printing food could also help (7) ....................... who suffer from dysphasia (a swallowing disorder). They could program the printer to print softer versions of their (8) ....................... foods so that they would not have trouble swallowing them.

Exercise 4: Read the text and decide T (true)/ F (false) for each statement.

WHAT WOULD YOUR LIFE BE LIKE WITHOUT A PHONE?

It is true that everything works at a fast pace these days, due to the quick access we have to pretty much anything and anyone. For example, you can contact someone who lives on the other side of the world within seconds. This is great if you think about how connected we can stay to the people who are far away from us; however, on the contrary, can we be too connected to the people who are close to us? An argument arose about the fact that it is easier to message someone from your sofa than to meet them in person and talk. On one hand, it is easier and nice sometimes to casually chat to a friend this way. However, it is also lazier and rude to prefer to talk to someone on your phone rather than meeting up, if you are able to, in my opinion. Social skills are important to have and if you are not going to put effort into real-life communication, then you are not going to progress in this ability.

Another point was that phones are very handy to look up something that you are wondering about. For example, if you don’t know a word in another language, you can quickly and simply access a translator to help you out. This can be very helpful in many situations, but it can also make a person dependent on the internet to help with anything. This factor slightly takes away the diversity of learning a language and conversing with people, as you are able to access everything you need via the web.

All in all, this question is very interesting to consider for oneself as we become day by day more dependent on technology. We should just be aware of how much we really need to be connected via our phones while considering the benefits and damage it can cause us.

No.	Statements	T/F
1.	Everything works at a slow pace nowadays.
2.	We contact someone who lives very fat from us within seconds.
3.	Phones may make us lazier and ruder in some way.
4.	Phones are very inconvenient to look up something that you are wondering about.
5.	We can team a language with a smartphone.

Exercise 7: Change these sentences into reported speech. (1)

1. “I don’t like chocolate”.

She told me ......................................................................................

2. “I won’t see you tomorrow”.

She said ............................................................................................

3. “She’s living in Paris for a few months”.

She said ............................................................................................

4. “I visited my parents at the weekend”.

She told me ......................................................................................

5. “She hasn’t eaten sushi before”.

She told me ......................................................................................

6. “I hadn’t travelled by underground before I came to London”.

She said ............................................................................................

7. “They would help if they could”.

She said ............................................................................................

8. “I’II do the washing-up later”.

She told me ......................................................................................

9. “He could read when he was three”.

She said ............................................................................................

10. “I was sleeping when Julie called”.

She said ............................................................................................

Exercise 8: Change these sentences into reported speech. (2)

1. “Do you live in London?”