Dawn of the Cyberbabes.

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Lesson 7.3.1. Information Technology

Дидактические материалы к занятиям 7.3.1,7.3.2, 7.3.3

Самостоятельная работа.

Занятие 7.3.3. Генная инженерия, клонирование. Genetic engineering, cloning

Самостоятельная работа.

Составить вопросы к тексту “What is Biotechnology?”

Цели занятия:

Образовательная: сформировать представления о технологии и возможности генной инженерии, клонировании животных и человека.

Развивающая: развивать культуру мышления, способность к анализу, обобщению, восприятию информации.

Воспитательная: воспитывать стремление самостоятельно приобретать новые знания, используя современные образовательные и информационные технологии.

Практическая: развивать умения монологической речи

1.Выучить лексику: еthics, side effects, future generations, ewe, mammary cell, to contain, cloning, physical manipulation, at the molecular level, to provide, of all genes, need, to produce a sheep, only genes for proteins required by, active, to divide, generate precise copies of themselves, to be deprived of nutrients, to induce to dormancy, can be activated, the nucleus is dislodged from, molecules, program genes, engender the embryo, clusters of embryonic cells, to be implanted into a surrogate mother, the resulting lamb, the donor ewe, genetic engineering, living organism, to ban, unforeseeable horrors, genetic defects.

2. Прослушать текст и понять информацию о задачах, значении клонирования.

3. Рассказать о возможностях генной инженерии и областях её применения, рассуждать об этических аспектах процессов клонирования.

4. Перевести на родной язык информацию о достижениях в области клонирования и генной инженерии.

5. Написать эссе «Клонирование человека – опасно ли это?»

Составить список аргументов за и против клонирования человека.

Ex 1. Study these predictions of developments in Information Technology from 2000. Which, if any, have come true? How likely are the others to come true? Give reasons for your decisions and compare answers with your partner.

2003 – Hydraulic chair for VR games

2006 – Fire fighting robots that can find and rescue people

2010 - Robotic devices within blood vessels

2025 – Artificial brain implants

2030 – Direct links between brain and computer

2100 – Electronic humans

Ex 2. How do you think developments in IT will affect these areas of life in the next ten years?

Commerce; work; the relationship between humans and computers

Ex 3. Compare your predictions with others in your group. Try to agree on a ranking from most likely to least likely.

Ex 4. Read the article and answer the following questions.

1. What is the name of the first electronic virtual assistant?

2. What could EVAs provide?

3. What are their applications?

4. What global trends does the technology combine?

5. What can EVA be programmed with?

6. Why is it equipped with a search engine?

7. What is a Java applet?

Stratumsoft are developing the first electronic virtual assistant, or EVA. If EVAs live up to the developers’ claims, they could provide the illusion of personal service without the cost. Call centres, online advertisers and Internet service providers are among the initial targets. Eighty per cent of call centre requests could, Stratumsoft argues, be dealt with by an EVA. E-commerce is another application.” The best experience you can have as a shopper is personal contact, and EVA is designed to give that”, says Stratumsoft’s director of marketing.

The technology behind EVA combines two global trends in website design. One, developed out of the computer animation and gaming industry, is the ability to give Web images the impression of three dimensions. The other is the use of dynamic database skills and artificial intelligence-style searching to retrieve information from data banks.

Each EVA can be programmed with information such as a product catalogue, answers to frequently asked questions or an online encyclopaedia. It is also equipped with a search engine to interpret customer requests made in colloquial language. Queries are typed in and answered via on-screen texts boxes.

If the EVA does not have an answer, it will interrogate the questioner, record the response, and add the answer to its database for future enquiries. EVAs are not fully animated to imitate human features but they can be programmed to gesture and imitate different moods. An EVA is run via a Java applet – a small, self-contained program coded to download on to any type of personal computer rather than being transmitted over the Internet.

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