Objective Advanced Unit 8: Being Inventive

Unit 8: Being inventive
Objectives:
  • Speaking about inventions
  • Grammar: Modals
  • Use of English: Word  and sentence transformation
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Unit 8: Being inventive
Objectives:
  • Speaking about inventions
  • Grammar: Modals
  • Use of English: Word  and sentence transformation

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Slide 2 - Video

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Which invention did you like? (support your answer)

Slide 3 - Open question

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Which invention did you find the weirdest?

Slide 4 - Open question

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1904
1914
1928
1937
1938
1956
1962
1979
1984
1985
Wristwatch
Electric dishwasher
Sliced Bread
The toaster
The biro
Video
recorder
The Ring-pull can
Personal
stereo
Computer
Mouse
Wi-fi

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      Invention           Year              Inventor Notes
1    Printing Press     1450               Johannes Gutenberg allowed literacy to greatly expand
2    Electric Light      1879               Thomas Edison powered countless social changes
3    Automobile         1885               Karl Benz increased personal mobility and freedom
4   Telephone            1876                Alexander Graham Bell spread communication across wide areas
5   Radio and TV     1895 & 1926     Guglielmo Marconi & John Baird made the world smaller
6   Vaccination          1796                Edward Jenner protected people from disease
7   Computer             1939                John Atanasoff, et al. transformed business world; predecessor to the Internet
8   Airplane                1903                Orville and Wilbur Wright allowed people and products to quickly move
9   Gas powered       1892                 John Froelich started agricultural mechanization
     tractor
10  Anesthesia          1844                Horace Wells provided a great leap forward for medicine

                                                                                                                                               source: EHistory


The Greatest Inventions In The Past 1000 Years

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Questions for discussion in pairs
  1. Do you agree with the order of importance of the inventions mentioned on the previous slide?
  2. The last top-10 great invention was in 1939 (invention of the computer), why do you think all great inventions happened before this date and none after?
  3. What is the difference between an invention and a discovery?
  4. What invention you couldn't live without? 
  5. What invention do you consider pointless?

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Slide 8 - Link

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Use "must" in a sentence

Slide 10 - Mind map

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Use "ought to/should" in a sentence

Slide 11 - Mind map

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Must
  • express obligation
  • Make deductions from evidence and express certainty
  • offer strong advice
  • give recommendations
  • express strong necessity

  • Can you make sentences that exemplify these functions?
Must in the past:
had to OR must have

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  1. Express Obligation:
Sentence: Students must submit their assignments before the deadline to receive full credit.
  1. Make Deductions from Evidence and Express Certainty:
Sentence: The detective observed the crime scene carefully and concluded that the suspect must have entered through the back door.
  1. Offer Strong Advice:
Sentence: If you want to succeed in your career, you must consistently demonstrate dedication and hard work.
Give Recommendations:
Sentence: To maintain a healthy lifestyle, individuals must incorporate regular exercise and a balanced diet into their daily routines.
Express Strong Necessity:
Sentence: In emergency situations, immediate action must be taken to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
Ought to/should:
  • Smth is likely because it's logical or normal
  • advise/suggest that smth would be a good idea
  • talk about duty and express weak obligation
  • criticise actions or attitudes
  • talk about the importance of doing smth.
  • to talk about necessity
ought to/should in the past
+ have

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Will and would
For polite invitations and requests.

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Will
  • Used to describe habits and characteristic behaviour in the present and in general
  • express demands, insist that smth will happen in the future
"He will be gaming with his friends instead of studying."
"She will watch her favourite series all evening."
"You will stop gaming now and start doing your homework!"
"You will damage your eyesight with watching so much TV!"

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Would
  • Used to talk about past habits and characteristics
  • When stressed it expresses annoyance
She'd /would always help people in need.
He 'd/would always walk the dog in the evenings.
She would always blaim everybody but herself.
He just wouldn't stop nagging about everything.

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Finish your weektask
  •  Vocabulary 1-3 (page 53)
  •  Grammar Theory Modals (page 166)
  •  Grammar Modals: exercise 1 and 2 and Corpus Spot (page 54)

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