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Portfolio Use ideas from Ex. 3 to complete the
essay for your English school teacher entitled Should teenagers have
mobile phones? (80-90 words). Use appropriate topic sentences to
start the main body paragraphs.
Should teenagers have mobile phones?
Para 1: state the topic (Most teens have mobile phones and a lot of them are
hooked on them. Is this good or bad?)
Para 2: advantages & examples (Mobile phones are ... . You can ... . Moreover,
you )
Para 3: disadvantages & examples (However, mobile phones can be If
They can also )
Para 4: summarise the topic (Mobile phones are very useful gadgets to have.
However, teens should use them sensibly.)
Student's Book: Self-Check 2
Workbook: 29
MODULE​

Robots
 The era of robots is approaching. It’s the result of scientific-technical progress. These mechanical agents were created to help people with hazardous work and daily chores. And, indeed, they are capable of doing many things. They can perform any operations, according to the program installed in them. For example, they can help with the laundry, do preparatory work for cooking meals, answer the phone, pick up objects, and even deal with radioactive substances. If we think over this issue, we will realize that we have already robots at our houses. They don’t only come in the shape of an electronic man, they are also regarded as automatic machines for performing various work. Most household appliances are like robots: a dishwasher, a washing machine, a clothes dryer, a microwave, a blender, a vacuum-cleaner, etc. These intelligent machines help us on everyday basis. They have significantly changed our life to the better. Speaking of realistic robots with two hands, two legs and a head with built-in computer, these creatures might be very useful in the future. Perhaps, every house will have at least one robot to provide help with a repetitive, boring work. Other than that, robots can be exploited to do the most difficult and dangerous things. They are already sent to explore other planets or to explore deep underwater. They are used in factories to build cars and other electronics. It seems that the only way we can get such things done is to entrust them to robots. In my opinion, the future of scientific progress is impossible without them. I’m sure that humanoid robots with Artificial Intelligence will be used by new advanced generations.

Today our planet Earth is facing an important problem - the global warming. It occurs because of emissions of toxic gas and increasing greenhouse effect.
Polluting gases are exhausted by factories, cars and other machines. These gases pile up in the atmosphere and don't let the light reflected from Earth's surface get out of atmosphere, which actually causes the warming itself. Because of it, glaciers melt rapidly, the ocean level rises and that poses a flood threat to all islands and seaside countries. It also means an dramatic increase in number of icebergs in oceans, which basically means a threat to sea travellers. Which in its turn poses a threat to economies of a lot of different countries, since most goods are exported and imported by water trade.

Warming is also dangerous for nature since many species of plants and animals are used to live under low-temperature conditions. And if temperature goes up, then certain plants, which are actually food for animals, will die. And that in its turn will make animals starve, and then eventually die as well. And so will die animals, whose food was primarily the previously mentioned animals, and so on and so forth.

I want to live in a country with strong economy, rich flora and fauna and not-overly-hot climate!

Let us save our planet together!

Let us say 'NO' to atmosphere pollution!

Let us switch to alternative sources of energy!

Let's revive our forests!