Universidad Tecnológica Nacional English II Mg.

Sandra Dezi

Read the text about future phones

a. What’s in store for us

Mobile technology has transformed our lives in a way that couldn't have been predicted 20 years ago. However, the
potential for even more surprising developments in mobile phones over the next five years is huge. Future phones are
being touted as the ultimate multifunctional gadgets and are expected to be more closely embedded in our day-to-day
lives than ever before. Some experts predict that the mobiles of the future will become remote controls for our whole
lives.

b. What to expect from the future

If the Morph is an accurate representation, in future the entire mobile phone casing will be a display. This means that
phone users could look at menus from any angle, including from the back of the phone. The Nokia Morph also uses radio
frequencies, silicon microphones, and speed and motion detectors. These sit next to thermal detectors and a range of
other super-high-tech features to sense the environment, the health and temperament of people nearby. The Morph
name comes from the mutability of Nokia's futuristic phone design, which means it's a host of devices in one. Users will
be able to snap apart their phones, and add in additional modules in order to change the way the phone can be used, for
example turning their Morph phone into a GPS for hiking and extreme sports, or a flat screen for watching video.

c. Education

Some predictions state that in the not too distant future mobiles will change the way we learn and teach. With more
than one in three school children owning a mobile phone, a future where camera and voice recorder phones are both
learning and teaching tools is highly possible. We have already seen some education authorities using texts to alert
parents to the truancy and even to notify pupils of classroom changes. It has been suggested that in the future mobile
phones will be used to take photos and make notes on field trips, in order to create a more active and informal approach
to learning.

d. Flexibility

For years, Samsung has been showing off flexible concept phones at trade shows that are so robust they can be folded in
two by the user. But so far, the closest it has come to bringing the technology to market was the Galaxy Round
smartphone.

Insert the subtitles. What is each paragraph about?

1. Flexibility
2. What’s in store for us
3. What to expect from the future mobile phone
4. Education

Read and answer true or false

1. Twenty years ago they predicted how mobile technology could transform our lives. False
2. They say that mobile phones will be like remote controls for people. True
3. The Nokia Morph will include many devices. True
4. Education will change with the use of mobile phones. True
5. Companies are not working on the production of flexible phones. False

Language Analysis

1. Huge, accurate, flat, distant and closest are ….adjectives.. In Spanish, they mean ………Enorme, preciso, Plano,
distante y cercano ……

2. Development, gadget, feature, device are ……nouns……… In Spanish, they mean …Desarrollo, aparato,
caracteristica, dispositivo……

3. The word transform, in paragraph 1, means to change / to move

4. The word sit, in paragraph 2, means to be on a chair / to be placed in a particular position

5. The word state, in paragraph 3, means confirm / expect

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6. The word fold, in paragraph 4, means reduce / bend

Passive Voice

1. They make the handle of wood.

The handle is made of wood.

2. They use this instrument for measuring temperature.

This instrument is used to measure temperature.

3. Karl Benz created the first commercially successful automobile.

The first commercially successful car was created by Karl Benz.

4. A smart phone incorporates the functionalities of a handheld computer.

Handheld functionalities have smartphones

5. They equip smart phones with two different processors.

Two different processors have smartphones.

6. They allocate isolated memory to each processor.

Each processor has an isolated memory.

7. They used baseband processors in ordinary mobile phone technology.

Ordinary mobile phone technology has baseband processors.

8. A team of UN staff prepared the report.

The report was prepared by a UN team.

9. They designed the report as an assessment of assessments.

The report was designed as an evaluation of evaluations.

10. The new machines of the 17th century fascinated Newton.

Newton was fascinated with the machines of the seventeenth century