Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text

ideas working impossible challenge organ

mammal suffering need cruel

2. Insert an appropriate word from Ex.1

a. People ________________ from overweight can get free consultation in our medical centre.

b. The champion is ready to face a __________ from any highly trained sportsman.

c. __________ is a class of animals that drink milk from its mother’s body when it’s young.

d. He is _____________ at creating an artificial brain.

e. Some children play ___________ jokes on their mates.

f. What do you think about my _________ of arranging a classmates’ party?

g. Brain is a vital ___________ of one’s body.

3. Make up sentences and translate them

a. be Cutting-edge, will, conference, ideas, at, this, the, annual, presented, summer.

b. It, to, build, an, possible, human, is, brain, artificial.

c. with, illnesses, technology, help, people, can, mental, New.

d. It, also, experiments, number, may, of, the, on, animals, reduce.

e. are, Markham’s, skeptics, who, some, There, don’t, in, success, believe.

4. Odd word out! Pay attention to the principle of grouping. Explain your choice

a. frightening, cruel, top, suffering

b. professor, brain, organ, body

c. to build, to reduce, to succeed, synthetic

d. will, forever, was, working

III. LISTENING: Listen and fill in the gaps.

A top British professor ________________-edge ideas conference he is ________________ a copy of human __________. Professor Henry Markham told the annual Technology, Entertainment, Design global conference that a working synthetic brain ________________ next decade. He told his audience: "It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years." He set himself a challenge __________________ he succeeded, he would demonstrate the results to all skeptics. He said: “I wish they believed that it’s real.” Professor Markham is director of the Blue Brain project, which ________________ mammals brains from laboratory data. He has already had success with creating parts of a rat’s brain. Markham said the human brain ________________ was an “almost frightening organ”.

Professor Markham hoped his research __________________ treatments for mental illnesses. He said: "There are two billion people on the planet ________________ disorder." Markham believes synthetic brain technology will reduce the need for experiments on animals. "We cannot ________________ animal experiments forever," he said. This will please many animal rights activists, who ________________ is cruel. He hopes to create a kind of animal brain models.