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Unit 4. Where are you from?

Section 1. City versus country — Какие самые комфортные места для жизни на земле? Какие преимущества и недостатки жизни в большом городе и жизни за городом?
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/04..._live/index.htm — the world's best places to live 2009
http://moving.about.com/od/whymove/a/best_places.htm - the world's best places to live
http://www.rferl.org/content/Wheres_The_Be...es/1861387.html – where the best place to live is
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/27/cities-be...es-to-live.html – world's 20 best places to live according to Forbes
http://www.citymayors.com/features/quality_survey.html – the best cities in the world to live in
http://dedunu.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/adv...-and-city-life/ - an opinion about the advantages and disadvantages of the village life and city life
http://www.helium.com/items/1605153-advant...ing-in-the-city – an article on the advantages and disadvantages of living in the city
http://www.helium.com/items/1554558-the-pr...tter-to-live-in – a collection of articles on whether it's better to live in the city or the country

World of science

Lesson 1-2. What science can do — Какие современные и уникальные технологии будут использоваться в будущем? Как эти технологии смогут изменить жизнь человека? Как можно представить себе дом будущего? Как он будет выглядеть? Какими современными техническими приспособлениями он будет наполнен?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFsJY00yNOQ – a video on the best future technology of 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_XcfwXSNq0...PL&index=25 – amazing future technology from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QCAb3VqoMo...feature=related – this is a short video on “Technology in the future” made by a college student
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8046659.stm — a video about Microsoft's «future home» - how the company plans to incorporate technology into more areas of life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRCFWdZicOM...=PL&index=6 – General Electric future concept for kitchens

Lesson 3-4. What is science? - Как строится научное исследование? Какие этапы оно проходит?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_k-7gMeg4...feature=related - a video demonstration of how to use the scientific method
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcavPAFiG14...feature=related - this video explains how we acquire knowledge, and how ideas go from a hunch in a laboratory to accepted theories taught in school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S80hKdtiESk - a short video on the steps of the Scientific Method, created by a 7th grade pupil

Lesson 5-6. Why do people become scientists? - Где найти видеоматериалы об ученых: И.Ньютоне, Г.Галлилее, Г.Менделе? Когда и кому впервые вручили Нобелевскую премию, в каких областях деятельности её присуждают? Где посмотреть видео с церемонии вручения этой премии?
http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=historicalfigures - a video about Isaac Newton, his life and his scientific background
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MkvJY3pmcQ - Galileo Galilei’s video biography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OPJnO9W_rQ - film biography of Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), became the father of modern genetics
http://sciencestage.com/v/11734/informatio...lprize.org.html - an informational video about the Nobel Prize and its website Nobelprize.org
http://www.viddler.com/explore/GrameenBank/videos/3/ - the Nobel Peace Prize 2006 Ceremony from Oslo, Norway
http://nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/cer...2009/index.html - watch the 2009 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden

Unit 3. A job for life?

Leson 1-2. A job for your future - Как выбрать подходящую профессию? Какие профессии будут самыми популярными в новом тысячелетии? Где посмотреть видео-интервью подростков об их планах на будущее, о том, какой они видят свою будущую профессию? Как люди представляют работу своей мечты? Как строится работа кадровых агентств? Как продуктивнее искать работу: самому или с помощью кадрового агентства?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0eSlqv6ZQo...feature=related — video advice on how to choose a future career
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNeIVqaIQeY...feature=related — top careers of the future
http://www.teachers.tv/video/24605 - a video of a Year 10 pupil, who explains how she is planning to undertake further education in law and run her own business
http://www.teachers.tv/video/24604 - in this video podcast a Year 10 pupil speaks of his aspirations of being a wealthy accountant
http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video...areerNoodle_com
- a short video where working professionals speak about their dream jobs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GthwmwEjpvE - a video film on how recruitment agencies work
http://www.lifetracks.com/working/job-hunt...job-search-tips - top tips for job hunting
http://www.teachers.tv/videos/24874 - top tips for trainee teachers about finding a job
http://www.ehow.com/video_2200284_find-job-online.html - how to find a job online

Lesson 3-4. A letter of application and a CV — Где найти видео-советы и рекомендации о том, как правильно написать резюме и сопроводительное письмо?
http://www.ehow.com/video_4908857_write-cv-student.html - video instructions for students on how to write a curriculum vitae
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-write-a-cv-2 - step by step video instruction on how to write CV
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-write-a-cv-2 - free video advice on writing job application letters

Lesson 5-6. A job interview — Как правильно вести себя на собеседовании с работодателем? Как произвести на него благоприятное впечатление? Что необходимо, а чего не следует говорить во время собеседования? Где найти основные советы о том, как отвечать на вопросы работодателя во время собеседования?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/972538/learn..._job_interview/ - educational video on job interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCQdloL8HV0 - learn the best way to answer job interview questions for a successful interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ucmfPOBV8...feature=related - watch this video to learn the dos and dont's of a job interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr2bpcpNQWY...feature=related - this video shows you how to answer some of the most common questions you will face at a job interview

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Technology and Gadget Predictions for 2050!

Technology and Gadget Predictions for 2050!

| Posted on 11 December 2008. Categorized | Cool Gadgets, Featured, General

We fast forward, 42 years into the future, a bleak vision for some of us when remembering the first “super-computer” as people shrieked and fled in terror, almost convinced that the “super-computer” will dominate human life. But let’s face it, it was the size of a small house and answered algebraic equation’s in minutes, just like the calculator can in seconds.
However, we have pondered and paced the garden thinking of what possible catastrophes can be applauded in 42 years? This is what we came up with:
The Flying Car
Since Moller released its “SkyCar M400X,” in 2003, it has failed to succeed. But this has only opened the door to new technology! Currently, there exists various patented, “Flying Cars”, but, again have failed to “take off” (No pun intended). But on a serious note – we have unearthed and have estimated that by 2050 no current car will be drivable! Now this might be because of the “Carbon Emissions,” law, which might rule out every gas powered vehicle. So move over gas, and welcome “Electric” power. Okay its hardly new, but we have listed an electric car that will give the Dodge Spider a run for its money!
Stop drooling…It’s called the Mazda Kaan, (yes it’s a Mazda) and it is “electric,” but do you want to know the best bit? It can drive up to mega top speeds of 250mph and it is soon appearing in the E1 – the Formula One of electric cars. In case you were wondering what those orange rims are…yep…you’ve guessed it – they’re wheels! So innovation in the making, it won’t be long until this thing will be able to fly.
Holograms
“Introducing, the new (2050) iPhone, with integrated, hologram, voice call.” Can you imagine this by 2050, or perhaps sooner? For many of us who watched the “Obama/McCain,” US election on CNN, we might of noticed a hologram of a female reporter. However, this used a few cameras on a 360 degree axis, and one very large “green screen,” to create the illusion. Nevertheless, it has created some media in the process, and now questions remain…when will we see, and use holograms?
George Lucas might be smug as he created the same techniques on Star Wars!
Teleportation
Ever heard of Quantum Teleportation? Now this is in progress at present and consists of transporting one entity to another geographical location. This may seem impossible but scientific research has found this is quite conceivable indeed.
Okay, all you need to get started is a “Transporter!” This could be anything, from a mobile handset to a complete array of electronic plates and a lot of Duracell batteries. However, silly as it might sound it has surpassed notion and is soon to be in development. So let’s all hope in 2050 teleportation could be made public! On the failier of the big “Red Phone Box.” Blue phone boxes might take their place, in the form of a Dardis.
Eco-Villages
Houses are already failing to meet the needs to be energy efficient so all homes will be totally green by 2050.
A normal house in the city, suburb or country, will predominately look the same. It’ll have solar panel roofing, wind turbines in the yard, a “flying car” landing pad and a garage for your teleport.
However, you will have a house robot that will assist you on your daily errands – helping to take out the garbage, prepare the food, beam up the teleport – practically anything. All you have to do is sit back in your eco home without worrying about the sky high electric bills because you have already invested into solar power.


Robots

Robots might already be here and especially if you have read my review on Gaj-it “Robots taking over the world.” But today a robot’s limits are only to its creator and whatever its master wants. So far, we have acting robots – I know, it won’t make much of a film – we also have robots which can mimic facial expressions. But when, where, and why, will we get to see and use, a robot that can go to the fridge, pull out a Bud so you can sit back and amuse yourself on the latest release of the PlayStation 27.
However, Robots are picking up pace, and seem to grow immensely superior. So expect Robots to be already here by 2050, and themselves, picking their artificial brains, trying to uncover new technology, before 2050?
007?
Now James Bond has gave such a large contribution, that it deserves a category on its own. But where to start as the list of gadgets and gizmo’s is so vast. When we say that the pen is mightier than the sword, we really mean it!
A watch with a laser on it? not Practical, but I’m sure you’ll find it in everyday use. Rings that can shatter bullet proof glass at a twist. A jet pack, for the business man, to get to work on time. Even X-ray glasses for the shop keeper to keep an eye on those youths exiting his shop. Can we see James Bonds’ array of gadgets in 2050, I think yes!
Computers
Comp…What? That’s right, by 2050, computers will no longer be called “computers”, it will have a new name, which would have already served its purpose. We predict that by 2050, computers will evolved enough that they will be monitoring themselves to find a new product, and we will be sitting back, relaxing and waiting until it does. However, Windows will no longer be call “Windows,” instead it will be called, “force field” because let’s face it, we have all this new technology, that we don’t need glass, Upvc windows any more. We can just deactivate a force field, whenever we want to let a little air in.
We predict that, keyboards will be a thing of the past, and we would use “touch screen,” and with many of us with larger roles in IT, will be using Minority Report style gloves to control programmes.

Fountain of Youth
The secret to eternal youth is out folks. Apparently according to boffins, they have found “growth” cells, which all help us age. What they have done is not remove, but reduced its length in order to help us grow old slowly. Now with that being said, I am currently writing a list called “Technology and Gadgets in 2150,” it might just be possible, that we’re all round then.
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Top 5 Future Technologies

Top 5 Future Technologies

Top 5 Future Technologies

Top 5 Future Technologies

Top 5 Future Technologies

Geniuses of the 20th century, the events that shaped the 20th Century

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Geniuses of the century Albert Einstein Franz Kafka Dimitri Sostakovic Thomas Eliot Salvator Dali Orson Welles Duke Ellington Igor Stravinsky James Joyce Bertold Brecht John Coltrane Karlheinz Stockhausen Thomas Mann Alfred Hitchcock Max Ernst Sun Ra Kurt Goedel Frank Zappa William James Don Van Vliet Charlie Parker Miles Davis Charlie Chaplin Rainer Maria Rilke Fernando Pessoa Gustav Klimt Elia Kazan Jorge Luis Borges Fritz Lang Luigi Pirandello Friedrich Nietzsche Ingmar Bergman Paul Valery David Hilbert William Yeats William Faulkner Ezra Pound Vladimir Nabokov Anton Cechov Ludwig Wittgenstein Howard Hawks Stanislaw Witkiewicz Gerald Edelman Billy Wilder Milan Kundera John Von Neumann Federico Fellini Bob Dylan Jean Piaget Salman Rushdie Jean-Paul Sartre Akira Kurosawa Gabriel Marquez Sigmund Freud Luis Bunuel

The Events that Shaped the 20th Century 1900s Cinema Telephone Psychoanalysis 1910s Bolshevik revolution World War I Relativity Airplane Plastic 1920s Hollywood Prohibitionism Fascism Cars Mickey Mouse Market crash Quantum mechanics Jazz World cup 1930s Radio New Deal Nazism Empire State Building 1940s World War II Mao Tze Tung Transistor Transatlantic jet United Nations European Union Nuclear bomb Holocaust 1950s DNA Rock and roll Computer Television Artificial INtelligence Vaccines Disneyland Cold war Quarks 1960s Moon landing Folksingers Astronauts Hippies Student riots Sexual revolution Beatlemania Artificial satellites IBM mainframes Big Bang theory Pele African independence 1970s Pope John Paul II Illicit drugs Oil crisis Unix Microprocessor Disco-music E-mail 1980s AIDS Videogames MTV Personal computer Space shuttle Hip hop MIR station 1990s Demise of the Soviet Union Human Genome project World Wide Web Cloning Cellular phones Internet economy

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Unit 3. Heading for better new world?

Dear students! I gave you these links for Section 1 some weeks ago. But here I again ask you  to use them in your project and  add some new links.

Section 1. How dependent are you on modern technology? - Какие современные и уникальные технологии будут использоваться в будущем? Как эти технологии смогут изменить жизнь человека? Как можно представить себе дом будущего? Как он будет выглядеть? Какими современными техническими приспособлениями он будет наполнен? Где посмотреть видео на тему «Дом будущего»?Как будет выглядеть автомобиль будущего? Чем он будет оборудован?
http://www.futureforall.org/ - a website for all ages dedicated to future technologies: nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognitive, artificial intelligence, the effect of future technologies on society
http://www.newsoffuture.com/technology/ - future news in technology - first tourist heading for Mars, beam yourself around the world with telebeamer, will the paralyzed be able to walk in the future?
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-ga...re-technologies – top 5 future technologies
http://www.usnews.com/money/business-econo...energy-use.html – 5 future technologies for homes
http://www.technologyawards.org/future_technology/ - how future technologies will be improved in comparison with the ones we have today
http://www.gaj-it.com/5127/technology-and-...tions-for-2050/ - a look into the future: the year 2050, possible future technology and gadgets
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/11..._the_future.htm - a look at what scientists are working on today to bring into your homes tomorrow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8046659.stm — a video about Microsoft's «future home» - how the company plans to incorporate technology into more areas of life
http://i.abcnews.com/WN/SmartHome/story?id...9570&page=1 - what our future lifestyle will look like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_car_technologies - encyclopaedia entry about future car technologies
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/01/1st-pre-product/ - illustrated information about one of the future cars
http://www.diseno-art.com/car_future.html – predictions about the future car

Section 2. Extraordinary minds - Где взять дополнительную информацию к фотографиям и иллюстрациям урока? Кого считают гениями всех времен и, в частности, 20-го века?
Каких детей называют гениями? Где найти дополнительную информацию о них, в каких областях они себя проявили? Есть ли такие дети в наше время? Существуют ли у родителей проблемы с такими детьми?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel - encyclopaedia entry about the Thames Tunnel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge - encyclopaedia entry about Clifton Suspension Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Railway_Bridge - encyclopaedia entry about Maidenhead Railway Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel - encyclopaedia entry about Isambard Kingdom Brunel
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/history/ikb – biography of I.K.Brunel with links to his major works
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas...ventor/main.htm - biographies of inventive genius of all times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_prodigy - encyclopaedia entry about child prodigy
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1303853 – an article on what child geniuses are
like as adults
http://hubpages.com/hub/10-Amazing-Child-P...ies-Across-Time – 10 amazing child prodigies across time
http://science.discovery.com/top-ten/2009/...-prodigies.html – top 10 child prodigies of all times
http://www.oddee.com/item_96629.aspx – 10 extraordinary child prodigies of our time
http://www.ehow.com/how_2155856_spot-child-prodigy.html – how to spot a child prodigy
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?...p;sec=lifefocus - child prodigies – two sides of genius

Section 3. Science or fraud? - Какие самые знаменитые открытия были сделаны в 20-ом веке? Где найти истории, фотографии, видео-наблюдения НЛО? Какие исследования проводят ученые в этой области? Где найти бесплатные IQ — tests в режиме онлайн?
http://www.unesco.org/bpi/science/content/press/anglo/6.htm — scientific discoveries of the 20th century
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites...20/part10a.html — a guide to scientific inventions and discoveries of the 20th century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufo#Research - encyclopaedia entry about UFOs
http://www.uforc.com/ - the website of UFO research center (USA)
http://alien-ufo-research.com/ - alien and UFO pictures, videos, stories, sightings and news
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/UFO_research — UFO research project
http://www.free-iqtest.net/ - an online IQ test to get your IQ score
http://www.intelligencetest.com/ - a free online IQ test - take this 10-minute quiz and get your score and testing results automatically
http://www.iqtestfree.net/ - calculate your IQ for free