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UNIT I OB: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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IN THIS UNIT YOU WILL
LEARN HOW TO
• do summary completion tasks with
and without boxes of options
• label a diagram
• check your understanding of future
tenses.

LEAD-IN I

� Find the ten words in this paragraph where the writer has made a mistake with the
part of speech.
Technology has greatly improved the life of many people around the world, according to
a considerable amount of researches that has been conducted over the past century.
The use of the internet in particularly has become so widespread in so many countries
that our daily existence would now be imaginable without it. This is not necessarily a
positive developed. As the work of Guillerme Vfnculos concludes, when social media first
started to become popularly, it was an innocence extension of the standard types of
interaction between friends and new acquaintances. These days, however, there are two
noticeably extremes, both negative. One is where the platform is used as a substituted
for human-to-human contact. The second is where it is employment as a way to bully or
aggressively intimidate other people.

Compare your answers with a partner. Then make a list of the incorrect and correct
forms of the words you have identified, noting the part of speech in each case.
The first one has been done for you.

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