Activity Book, page 17, exercises 8, 9 and 10
8 In your opinion, in what ways would a prosthetic hand improve someone’s life? What problems might it cause?
Suggested answer
A prosthetic is an artificial limb that replaces a missing body part. Its goal is to replace as much function of the original limb as possible. At the very least, a prosthetic should help the person take care of necessary daily activities such as eating, walking and being able to get dressed on their own. However, they might cause problems, the skin is highly exposed to friction when installing prosthetics, which causes some wounds in the skin. Treating wounds, if any. There is also a need to use moisturizers regularly to avoid friction.
9 Read the article below and choose the best title.
A Accident victim invents hand that can feel
B Accident victim gets amazing new hand
C Accident victim tests first artificial limb
Answer
C Accident victim tests first artificial limb
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Scientists have successfully invented a prosthetic hand with a sense of touch. It is an exciting new invention, which they plan to develop. It is possible that, in the not-too-distant future, similar artificial arms and legs will have taken the place of today’s prosthetic limbs. Dennis Sorensen, a 39-year-old from Denmark, was the first person to try out the new invention. After losing his left hand in an accident, he had been using a standard prosthetic hand for nine years. The new hand, which was developed by Swiss and Italian scientists, was a huge improvement. With it, Sorensen could not only pick up and manipulate objects, but he could also feel them. ‘When I held an object, I could feel if it was soft or hard, round or square,’ he explained. He said that the sensations were almost the same as the ones he felt with his other hand. Unfortunately, Sorensen was only taking part in trials, and the equipment is not ready for general use yet. He was only allowed to wear it for a month, for safety reasons. So now he has his old artificial hand back. However, he hopes that soon he will be wearing the new type of hand again. He is looking forward to the time when similar artificial limbs are available for the thousands of people who need them. He will have helped to transform their lives. |
Accident victim tests first artificial limb
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MEANING IN ENGLISH |
WORD |
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arm or leg of a person |
limb |
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an artificial body part |
prosthetic |
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made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally |
artificial |
| Scientists have successfully invented a prosthetic hand with a sense of touch. It is an exciting new invention, which they plan to develop. It is possible that, in the not-too-distant future, similar artificial arms and legs will have taken the place of today’s prosthetic limbs. |
1. Scientists have successfully invented a prosthetic hand with a sense of touch.
2. The thing that makes the new prosthetic hand different from the previous one is having a sense of touch.
3. The underlined relative pronoun 'which' refers to an exciting new invention or a prosthetic hand with a sense of touch.
4. The word 'artificial' means: made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally.
| Dennis Sorensen, a 39-year-old from Denmark, was the first person to try out the new invention. After losing his left hand in an accident, he had been using a standard prosthetic hand for nine years. |
1. Dennis Sorensen was the first to try out the new invention.
2. Dennis Sorensen needs a prosthetic hand because he lost his left hand in an accident.
3. The underlined pronoun his line two refers to Dennis Sorensen.
4. Dennis Sorensen had been using the standard prosthetic hand for nine years.
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The new hand, which was developed by Swiss and Italian scientists, was a huge improvement. With it, Sorensen could not only pick up and manipulate objects, but he could also feel them "When I held an object, I could feel if it was soft or hard, round or square", he explained. He said that the sensations were almost the same as the ones he felt with his other hand. Unfortunately, Sorensen was only taking part in trials, and the equipment is not ready for general use yet. He was only allowed to wear it for a month, for safety reasons. So now he has his old artificial hand back. However, he hopes that soon he will be wearing the new type of hand again. He is looking forward to the time when similar artificial limbs are available for the thousands of people who need them. He will have helped to transform their lives. |
1. Dennis Sorensen could do different things with the new hand, such as:
1. picking up and manipulating objects 2. feeling objects.
2. Dennis Sorensen could feel different sensations about the objects he could hold like soft or hard, round or square.
3. Swiss and Italian scientists invented the new prosthetic hand.
4. The sentence which indicates that Dennis's new hand wasn’t made to be used permanently.
He was only allowed to wear it for a month, for safety reasons.
5. Dennis wasn’t allowed to use the hand for a long time because the equipment is not ready for general use yet.
6. The old artificial hand is the hand that Dennis is wearing now.
7. The underlined pronoun 'them' in the text above refers to objects.
8. The word 'prosthetic' is the opposite of natural.