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2nd Partial Reading and Listening

activity

Martínez Rodríguez Eric Misael

Grupo: MEM-41 Periodo: 2022-3

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Level 3 – 3rd June 2022 Fourth quarter 2022 - 06

Article
It's hard to keep up with technology these days. The latest example of science
fiction becoming science fact is a flying car. For decades, we have watched
movies about a future with flying cars. This week, journalists saw a real one in
flight. A prototype flying AirCar completed a test flight between two cities in
Slovakia. The car flew between a regional airport and an airport in the capital city
Bratislava. The 90km journey took 35 minutes to complete. AirCar is from a
company called Klein Vision. A founder of the company said: "AirCar is no longer
just a proof of concept." He added: "Flying at [2,500 metres] at a speed of
[185kph], it has turned science fiction into a reality."

AirCar is a road-legal car that transforms into an aircraft in less than three
minutes. AirCar CEO Professor Stefan Klein flew and landed the vehicle on its
recent test flight. After landing at Bratislava Airport, he pushed one button to
transform the aircraft into a sports car. He then drove it into downtown
Bratislava on the city's streets. He described the flight as "normal" and "very
pleasant". His company is working on a new, more powerful model called AirCar
Prototype 2. This will have a much more powerful engine that is capable of a
cruising speed of 300kph and a range of 1,000 kilometres. The newer model will
also be a four-seater as opposed to the two-seater that was recently tested.

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 WARM-UPS

1. CARS: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about cars. Change
partners often and share your findings.

2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will
the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life?

keep up / technology / science fiction / movies / flying cars / airport / journey / speed
aircraft / three minutes / sports / downtown / normal / powerful / engine / two-seater

Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.

3. FLYING CARS: Students A strongly believe flying cars are better than road
cars; Students B strongly believe the opposite. Change partners again and talk about your
conversations.

4. SCIENCE FICTION: What do you think of these things from science fiction?
How would they change our life? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners
often and share what you wrote.

Thoughts Changes
Would be great to think about flying people We would arrive to other places faster than
Jet packs
nowadays.
Wouldn’t be necessary to cook anymore Famine would never be a problem
Food pills
Hospitals wouldn’t be a business People would never think about bring up
Anti-aging
children
Zero carbon energy
We would communicate to everyone Wars would finish, we would never have
Language injections
without problems communication problems
There would be more lazy people People wouldn’t worry about doing hard job
Personal robots

5. SCIENCE FICTION: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words
you associate with the word "science fiction". Share your words with your partner(s) and
talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.

Artificial intelligence
Alien
Alternate universe
Asteroid
Atmosphere
Bionic
Black hole
Clones
Close encounter

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6. TECHNOLOGY: Rank these with your partner. Put the most important things for
technology to improve at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

• Transport • Education
• Health • Energy
• Military • Farming
• Environment • Policing

1- Health
2- Education
3- Environmet
4- Energy
5- Policing
6- Military
7- Farming

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VOCABULARY MATCHING
Paragraph 1

1. keep up with (2) a. Stories or ideas about the future or about

new technology, or about travelling into
space.

2. science fiction (5) b. A first model of something, especially a

machine, from which others are developed
or copied.

3. decade (4) c. A person who writes for newspapers,

magazines, or news websites.

4. journalist (3) d. A period of ten years.

5. Prototype (1) e. Learn about or be aware of news or the

latest things in the world.

6. regional (7) f. An idea about something, especially

something new.

7. concept (6) g. About an area of a country or the world.

Paragraph 2

8. legal (14) h. How fast a car, ship, or aircraft can travel

(usually below its maximum) that is
comfortable and economical.

9. transform (8) i. Allowed by law.

10. vehicle (12) j. Nice.

11. downtown (13) k. How far a vehicle or aircraft can travel

without refueling.

12. pleasant (10) l. A thing used for moving people or goods,

especially on land, such as a car, truck, or
cart.

13. cruising (11) m. Of, in, or about the central area of a town or
city.

14. range (9) n. Change from one thing into another.

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BEFORE READING / LISTENING

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).

1. The article says it is easy to be aware of technology these days. T/F

2. The article says we watched movies with flying cars. T/F
3. The flying car took 90 minutes to make its journey. T/F
4. The flying car reached a height of 2,500 metres. T/F
5. It is not legal to drive the AirCar on the roads. T/ F
6. It takes less than three minutes for the aircraft to change into a car. T/F
7. The pilot CEO drove the car into the city from the airport. T/F
8. A new model of the car will have two seats. T/ F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: (The words in bold are from the news article.)

1. latest a. touching down

2. movies b. trip
3. completed c. version
4. journey d. evidence
5. proof e. films
6. transforms f. nice
7. landing g. trialled
8. pleasant h. most recent
9. model i. turns
10. tested j. finished

3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

1. It's hard to keep up with a. a four-seater (10)

2. science fiction becoming science b. into a reality (5)
3. movies about a future c. into an aircraft (6)
4. a regional d. at Bratislava Airport (7)
5. it has turned science fiction e. fact (2)
6. a road-legal car that transforms f. and "very pleasant" (8)
7. After landing g. technology these days (1)
8. He described the flight as "normal" h. speed of 300kph (9)
9. capable of a cruising i. with flying cars (3)
10. The newer model will also be j. airport (4)

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GAP FILL

It's (1) hard to keep up with technology these days. reality

The latest example of science fiction becoming science flight

(2) fact is a flying car. For decades, we have watched
hard
movies about a future with flying cars. This week, journalists saw
journey
a real one in (3) flight . A prototype flying AirCar

completed a test flight between two cities in Slovakia. The car flew concept

between a (4) regional airport and an airport in the capital fact

city Bratislava. The 90km
founder
(5) journey took 35 minutes to complete. AirCar is from
regional
a company called Klein Vision. A (6) founder of the

company said: "AirCar is no longer just a proof of (7)

concept ." He added: "Flying at [2,500 metres] at a

speed of [185kph], it has turned science fiction into a

(8) reality ."

AirCar is a road-legal car that (9) transforms into an aircraft button

in less than three minutes. AirCar CEO Professor Stefan Klein flew recently
and landed the (10) vehicle on its recent test flight.
downtown
After landing at Bratislava Airport, he pushed one
vehicle
(11) button to transform the aircraft into a sports car.

He then drove it into (12) downtown Bratislava on the city's cruising

streets. He described the (13) flight as "normal" and transforms

"very pleasant". His company is working on a new, more powerful
flight
model called AirCar Prototype 2. This will have a much more
range
powerful engine that is capable of a (14)

range speed of 300kph and a

(15) crusing of 1,000 kilometres. The newer model will

also be a four-seater as opposed to the two-seater that was (16)

recently tested.

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 Level 3 - 3rd July, 2021
Fourth quarter 2021 - 02
THE ARTICLE
LISTENING – Listen and fill in the gaps.

It's hard to (1) keep up with technology these days.

The latestexample of science fiction becoming (2) fact is a flying car.

For decades, we have watched movies about a (3) future with flying

cars. This week, journalists saw a real (4) one in flight . A prototype

flying AirCar completed a test flight between two cities in Slovakia. The car

flew between (5) a regional airport and an airport in the capital city

Bratislava. The 90km journey took 35 minutes to complete. AirCar is from a

company called Klein Vision. A founder of the company said: "AirCar is no longer

just a (6) proof of concept." He added: "Flying at [2,500 metres] at a speed

of [185kph], it has turned science fiction into a reality."

AirCar is a (7) road-legal car that transforms into an aircraft in less than

three minutes. AirCar CEO Professor Stefan Klein flew and landed the vehicle

on its (8) recent test flight. After landing at Bratislava Airport, he pushed

one button to (9) transform the aircraft into a sports car. He then drove it into

downtown Bratislava on the city's streets. He described the flight as

"normal" (10) and "very pleasant". His company is working on a new, more

powerful model called AirCar Prototype

2. This will have a much more powerful engine that is capable

of (11) a range speed of 300kph and a range of 1,000 kilometres. The

newer model will also be a four-seater (12)

as opposed to the two-seater that was recently tested.

Sources: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/30/business/flying-car-flight-slovakia-scli-intl/index.html
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/science-fiction-reality-flying-sportscar-070052538.html
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MULTIPLE CHOICE - QUIZ

1) What does the article say it is 6) How long does it take for the
hard to keep up with these days? AirCar to change from a car to an
a) flying cars aircraft?
b) sports teams a) exactly 3 minutes
c) science fiction b) just over 3 minutes
d) technology c) less than 3 minutes
d) about 3 minutes
2) Where did people watch flying
cars before the AirCar flew? 7) How many buttons did the CEO
a) on the Internet press to transform the AirCar?
b) movies a) one
c) in museums b) two
d) in toy stores c) three
d) four
3) Where did the AirCar take off
from? 8) Where in Bratislava did the CEO
a) the CEO's garden drive the AirCar to?
b) a farm a) a river
c) a national highway b) the entertainment district
d) a regional airport c) downtown
d) the government building
4) How long did the AirCar's journey
take? 9) What is the name of a more
a) 55 minutes powerful AirCar?
b) 25 minutes a) Prototype X
c) 35 minutes b) Prototype 2
d) 45 minutes c) Prototype 20
d) Prototype 10
5) How fast did the AirCar go?
a) 158kph 10) How many seats will the new
b) 175kph AirCar have?
c) 278kph a) 4
d) 185kph b) 8
c) 6
d) 2

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AFTER READING / LISTENING

1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates,

other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words 'flying' and 'car'.

Flying car
• auto
• aerial • automobile
• airborne • bus
• avian • convertible
• floating • jeep
• soaring • limousine
• machine
• Share your findings with your partners.
• Make questions using the words you found.
• Ask your partner / group your questions.

2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down

some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
• Share your questions with other classmates / groups.
• Ask your partner / group your questions.

What do you think about flying cars?

Do you think is possible to see more flying machines nowadays?

3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise.

Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new,
interesting, worth learning…?

4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups,

pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.

5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try
to recall how they were used in the text:
keep legal
movies less
flight button
capital normal
founder cruising
added four

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SPELLING

Paragraph 1

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Paragraph 2

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8. Klein flew and landed the iehecvl vehicle

9. normal and very tleansap pleasant

10. powerful model called AirCar orytopPte 2 prototype

11. capable of a scrnuiig speed of 300kph cruising

12. as osdpepo to the two-seater opossed

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PUT THE TEXT BACK TOGETHER

Number these lines in the correct order.

(9 ) landed the vehicle on its recent test flight. After landing at

Bratislava Airport, he pushed one

(4 ) between a regional airport and an airport in the capital city

Bratislava. The 90km journey took

(2 ) fact is a flying car. For decades, we have watched movies about a

future with flying cars. This week, journalists saw a real

(8 ) AirCar is a road-legal car that transforms into an aircraft in less

than three minutes. AirCar CEO Professor Stefan Klein flew and

(13 ) more powerful engine that is capable of a cruising speed of 300kph

and a range of 1,000 kilometres. The newer

(14 ) model will also be a four-seater as opposed to the two-seater that

was recently tested.

(7 ) at [2,500 metres] at a speed of [185kph], it has turned science

fiction into a reality."

(12) working on a new, more powerful model called AirCar Prototype 2.

This will have a much

( 1 ) It's hard to keep up with technology these days. The latest example
of science fiction becoming science

(3 ) one in flight. A prototype flying AirCar completed a test flight

between two cities in Slovakia. The car flew

(10) button to transform the aircraft into a sports car. He then drove it
into downtown Bratislava on the city's

(11) streets. He described the flight as "normal" and "very pleasant". His
company is

(5 ) 35 minutes to complete. AirCar is from a company called Klein

Vision. A founder of

(6 ) the company said: "AirCar is no longer just a proof of concept." He

added: "Flying

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PUT THE WORDS IN THE RIGHT ORDER

1. hard with It's to technology nowadays . keep up

It's hard to keep up with technology nowadays

2. science fact . science of fiction example becoming An

example of science fiction becoming science fact

3. movies cars . a flying with future about Watched

watched movies about a future with flying cars

4. a week, This flight . real saw in journalists one

This week, journalists saw a real one in flight

5. a It fiction science turned has reality . into

it has turned science fiction into a reality

6. three aircraft in Transforms just an minutes . into

transforms into an aircraft in less than three minutes

7. the to He pushed transform one button aircraft .

he pushed one button to transform the aircraft

8. powerful on a It's model . more working new,

It’s working on a new, more powerful model

9. more have engine . a will powerful This much

This will have a much more powerful engine

10. four-seater . model The also be will a newer

The newer model will also be a four-seater

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HOMEWORK

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text.

Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up
more associations / collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about this news story.
Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.

3. OUR SCIENCE FICTION FUTURE: Make a poster about our science

fiction future. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all
have similar things?

4. FLYING CARS: Write a magazine article about flying cars. Include

imaginary interviews with people who are for and against them.

Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new
words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).

5. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Write a newspaper article about the next stage
in this news story. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson.
Give each other feedback on your articles.

6. LETTER: Write a letter to an expert on flying cars. Ask him/her three

questions about them. Give him/her three of your opinions on them. Read your
letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your
questions.

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