Miscellaneous Reader. Part I. Учебные задания для обучения базовым умениям чтения. Гергесовa О.В - 11 стр.

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out you need more vegetables and less fat. Your food-
preparation machine makes you a salad.
4. After lunch, you go down the hall to your home office. Here
you have everything you need for doing your work. Thanks
to your information screen and your new computer, you
almost never go into the office anymore.
5. The information screen shows an urgent message from a co-
worker in Brazil. You set the screen to translate Portuguese
into English. As you wait, you think about later, when you’ll
have a movie transmitted. What movie should you order
tonight?
Word Power
IV. Find words in the text with the following meanings
a) enter
b) to have idle and pleasant thoughts
c) for both sending and receiving
d) a colleague
e) to learn by study, calculation
f) as a result of
V. Read the text again and decide if the sentences are true or
false. Mark T if the sentence is true; Mark F if the sentence
is false.
1. If you need to pay for food, you will go to the bank and
take some money from your bank account
2. You can even fall asleep while driving a car. If it is on
automatic pilot, you won’t have an accident.
3. If you need more vegetables and less fat, buy a
hamburger or pizza.
4. It won’t be necessary for you to buy food in a
supermarket. You will be able to get food with the help
of your refrigerator.
5. While the screen is translating the message you can
decide which film to see this evening.
VI. What are three uses for computers at home? At school? In a
factory? In a restaurant? Complete the chart. Then add two
more uses for each place.
a) communicate with people g) pay the workers
b) keep the attendance h) research papers
c) pay household bills i) create work schedules
d) process credit cards j) make report cards
e) create the menu k) place orders
f) make budgets l) run the machines
At home At school In a factory In a restaurant
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
After reading
VII. Imagine you could invent a machine that would make life
easier and better. Describe the machine.
UNIQUE CUSTOMS
Pre-reading task
I. Read the title. Choose the best definition for the word
unique
among the variants a, b, c or d given below 
   out you need more vegetables and less fat. Your food-                4. It won’t be necessary for you to buy food in a
   preparation machine makes you a salad.                                  supermarket. You will be able to get food with the help
4. After lunch, you go down the hall to your home office. Here             of your refrigerator.
   you have everything you need for doing your work. Thanks             5. While the screen is translating the message you can
   to your information screen and your new computer, you                   decide which film to see this evening.
   almost never go into the office anymore.
5. The information screen shows an urgent message from a co-       VI. What are three uses for computers at home? At school? In a
   worker in Brazil. You set the screen to translate Portuguese         factory? In a restaurant? Complete the chart. Then add two
   into English. As you wait, you think about later, when you’ll        more uses for each place.
   have a movie transmitted. What movie should you order             a) communicate with people           g) pay the workers
   tonight?                                                          b) keep the attendance               h) research papers
                                                                     c) pay household bills               i) create work schedules
Word Power                                                           d) process credit cards              j) make report cards
IV. Find words in the text with the following meanings               e) create the menu                   k) place orders
                                                                     f) make budgets                      l) run the machines
   a)   enter
   b)   to have idle and pleasant thoughts
                                                                      At home        At school       In a factory   In a restaurant
   c)   for both sending and receiving
                                                                     1.
   d)   a colleague
                                                                     2.
   e)   to learn by study, calculation
                                                                     3.
   f)   as a result of
                                                                     4.
                                                                     5.
V. Read the text again and decide if the sentences are true or
  false. Mark T if the sentence is true; Mark F if the sentence      After reading
  is false.                                                          VII. Imagine you could invent a machine that would make life
                                                                     easier and better. Describe the machine.
   1. If you need to pay for food, you will go to the bank and
      take some money from your bank account
   2. You can even fall asleep while driving a car. If it is on
      automatic pilot, you won’t have an accident.                                       UNIQUE CUSTOMS
   3. If you need more vegetables and less fat, buy a
      hamburger or pizza.                                            Pre-reading task
                                                                     I. Read the title. Choose the best definition for the word
                                                                        unique among the variants a, b, c or d given below

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