Comunidad de Madrid ESO 4 Evaluation Preparation Material DOMI MINA NVS TIO- ILLV MEA 8886888 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Comunidad de Madrid ESO 4 Evaluation Preparation Material Reading Task 1 Read paragraphs 1-5 and choose the best headings A-F from the list. There is one extra heading. Fashion trends of the future 1 It can be extremely fru strating when the battery of your smartphone runs out and you're miles away from home - and your charger. However, clothes manufacturers are currently working on designs with soft solar panels, which collect energy from the sun. The clothes will allow the wearer to charge their phone once he or she has been outside in the sun for a while. 2 Thanks to the growing number of cars in our city centres, the air isn't getting any better. Enter the personal air purifier. The user wears it on the arm like a watch or a bracelet, and turns it on when the po llution gets bad. The device takes in and cleans the polluted air and lets it back out into the atmosphere to be used again. 3 Smartphones with GPS are great, but difficult to use if you're riding a bike. Now there's a helmet that makes finding your way around a lot easier. The helmet has a built-in system that uses lights on the left or right to show the rider where to turn. The user enters the address of their destination into the device, and then he or she is away. 4 If you're looking for somet hin g original to wear, then you needn't look further than the desig ns of Yi ng Gao. These are dresses that use the latest technology to detect when someone is looking at them. When this happens, tiny motors make parts of the garments move in patterns. Some of them also light u p in the dark. 5 Runners will be able to avoid injury in the future by wearing a kind of smart sock. The sock is attach ed to a band aro und the ankle that detects how the wearer's foot is moving. Sensors in the sock communicate data to the band which sends on the information to an app. If the user is in danger of hurting his or her foot, he or she will receive a warning. A Take a deep breath B Are you looking at me? C Non-stop power D Close to the heart E Watch your st ep F Show me the way Mark: /10 Photocopiable @ Oxford University Press 1
Comunidad de Madrid ESO 4 Evaluation Preparation Material Reading Task 2 Read the article. Then choose the correct answers. The latest in transplanting body parts Lindsay Ess is one of the luckiest women alive. First, she survived a serious infection when she was in her twenties. Then, four years later, she had a double hand transplant to replace the hands that she lost to the infectio n - she received the hands of another person.