Speaking. 1. Answer the following questions:

1. Answer the following questions:

 

(a) Do you have a controller at home?

(b) How did our ancestry know the air temperature?

(c) Do you know any signs which can say about bad or good weather?

(d) Do you believe in omens?

(e) How did sailors check the air temperature in your opinion?

(f) Why is the earth’s temperature changing every year? How does it influence on our nature and health?

 

2. Ask your partner questions about:

 

(a) control theory; (b) operational conditions; (c) thermostat; (d) feedback;

(e) heating system; (f) individual organisms; (g) natural world; (h) equilibrium;

(i) air temperature.

 

3. Retell the text.

 

4. How do you understand the joke? Discuss it with your partner.

 

A customer called Compaq tech support to say her brand-new computer wouldn't work. She said she unpacked the unit, plugged it in and sat there for 20 minutes waiting for something to happen. When asked what happened when she pressed the power switch, she asked "What power switch?"

Grammar Present Simple

Present Simple Tense is used to discuss permanent situations and the frequency of events.

To have Short form Other Verbs (to work)

I have (I've) I work

he has (he's) He works

she has (she's) She works

it has (it's) It works

you have (you've) You work

we have we've) We work

they have (they've) They work