1. Different opinions about gadgets
(Home – reading)

2. Answer the following questions.
What is your attitude to different gadgets?
What’s so good about mad gadgets?
Are they any use?
Have you got any really silly gadgets?
What is your favourite gadget?
What do you say to people who think gadgets are a waste of money?

3. Guess the riddles.
A flower planted in the hand That blossoms when it rains. When I go, I do not speak; But when I stop, I lie. Who am I? When it is driven, it goes, When it stops, it falls down.
( An umbrella)
( A clock )
( A bicycle )

4. Familiar quotations. Knowledge is power. (Francis Bacon)
Clever men is good, but they are not the best.
( Thomas Carlyle)
Genious is one per cent inspirations and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
( Thomas Alva Edison)
Inspiration – вдохновение, perspiration – потение. Familiar – знакомый.

5. Match the words with their definitions.
1) gadget
2) daft
3) huge
4) to bounce
5) miserable
6) power
7) bucket
a) silly, foolish
b) very great
c) a small mechanical device
d) cause to move away or back when sent
against something hard
e) capacity to magnify
f) very unhappy
Daft – рехнувшийся; to bounce – прыжок, скачок; miserable – несчастный; bucket – ведро, бадья;
g) a vessel of wood, plastic for carrying
water

6. Fill in can / be able to
1) Tom has good technical education. He __________ invent different things.
2) She hasn’t _____________ sleep at night because of the mosquitoes.
3) Sam might ____________ come tomorrow morning if nothing happens.
4) My Dad _____________ speak several foreign languages.
5) I used to ____________ draw well.
6) Are you _____________ talk to him in Spanish?
7) My Granny looked tired because she __________ sleep yesterday night.
can
be able to
be able
can
be able to
able to
couldn’t

7. Look through the interview from “The Young Telegraph” and answer the questions.
- What does Carol Voderman do?
- What is Hot Gadgets?
- Where can you see Hot gadgets?
The show is called “Hot Gadgets”.
-What kind of gadgets is the show about?
Find the appropriate meaning of the word in the dictionary entry.
Hot – 1)горячий, жаркий; 2) пылкий, страстный;
3)свежий; 4) острый; 5) амер.разг. бедовый;
6)опасный; 7)прикольный.