OA Unit 8: Being Inventive

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OA Unit 8: Being inventive

Objectives:

Speaking about inventions

Grammar: Modals

Use of English: Word  and sentence transformation

      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

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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Use "must" in a sentence

Use "ought to/should" in a sentence

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:

+ have

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

Will and would

For polite invitations 

and

requests.

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!"

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.

Finish your weektask

•  P. 53: Vocabulary 1-3
  
•  P. 166: Grammar Theory Modals
  
•  P.54: Grammar Modals: ex. 1 and 2 and Corpus Spot