Topic # 13 Our Age Is the Age of Science and Technology. Prove It.

Topic # 13 Our Age Is the Age of Science and Technology. Prove It. 

    Well, our age, I mean the period that started at the end of the 19th century and has still  been going on, is really the age of sensational discoveries and inventions. It is called "The age of science and technology". The first airplane, the cinema technology, the telephone and the first car were invented in the 19th century. Those inventions gradually changed many people's lives, made their way of life faster and more convenient. The way people get information and contact each other has been developing day by day and those who can't afford the latest machines and devices, gadgets and technologies suffer from lack of speed and information.

   The list of inventions is rather long. We are on-lookers of great scientific achievements, for example, television and the computer. Let's have a look at one of them - computer. A computer is an electronic device  that stores information and allows changes in it through the use of instructions. A modern computer is capable of doing various tasks, like word processing and accounting.

    A computer gives a lot of advantages to a user. Computers give us access to the Internet - an international computer network. You can save a lot of your free time surfing the Internet and get all sorts of information from it. You can enter the chat room with other Internet users and debate urgent problems on line. You can email your friends and colleagues. Based on the computer, there is the idea of developing the so-called "smart house" technology. Smart-house software has the ability to turn home appliances off and on by using the existing wiring in the house. Smart-house software helps to run appliances, access the Internet for weather, stock market, other information, all using voice commands.

 In my life the computer plays a very important role. It helps me find information and relax.

Though scientists have achieved so much, scientific minds are still working at some urgent problems. These are finding and using alternative sources of energy, energy saving and conservation, fighting fatal diseases like cancer and AIDS, designing and developing artificial body parts, making people's life longer, colonizing other planets.

New Words:

1. gradually - постепенно

2. convenient   - удобный

 3. afford - позволить себе (иметь средства)

4. list - список

5.  on-lookers - наблюдатели

 6. scientific achievements  - научные достижения  

7. store - хранить, накапливать

8. allow - давать возможность

9. through - посредством  

10. capable of doing sth - способен на что-либо

 11. accounting - подсчёт, калькуляция

12.  access to - доступ

13. enter - вход

14. urgent - злободневный, жгучий

15. colleague - коллега

16. software - программное обеспечение

17. home appliances - бытовые приборы

18. wiring - электропроводка

19. run appliances - управлять приборами

20. stock market - фондовая биржа

21. have achieved - достигли

22. alternative sources of energy - альтернативные источники энергии

23. fatal diseases - смертельные заболевания

24. cancer - рак

25. AIDS - СПИД

26. artificial - искусственный

27. colonize - заселять