Inventions that shook the world

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Repeat the words after the teacher, be ready to
translate them:
a break-through, numerous, to remind, to stare at,
to store, technology, to distract, damaging, various,
to jog one’s brains, to rely on, enemy’s defenses,
invaluable, cybercrime, to commit a crime, to come
across, swindle

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SIMILAR
DISTRACT
USEFUL
BREAK

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• different
• harmful
• to look at smth./smb. for a long time with eyes
widely open
• - a major discovery in science, medicine,
technology etc.
- a movement through the enemy’s defenses
• to keep smth. for use as needed

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• The most widespread crime criminals commit using the
internet is swindle.
• More than 7000 cybercrimes were registered in Russia
in the first half of 2014.
• 85 % of people in Russia came across cybercrime in
2013.
• A German company “Deutshe Telekom” established
that Russia is the main source of cyber attacks in the
world.
(you may respond to the utterances using the following
phrases: How horrible! (awful, rotten), How interesting!
I’ve never heard about it.)

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Feedback.
Let’s draw a conclusion using the starters:
While doing the tasks I felt…
It was interesting to learn that…
It was difficult to…
I’d like to know more about…