Make Your Way 5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Find out what these words mean. Use a dictionary. (You can find an online dictionary at http://www.pons.eu .) 4 “New Computer” is about … In the first stanza the poet describes … Then he talks about … In stanzas 4, 5 and 6 he mentions … In the last stanza, he introduces the message of the poem, which is … …………………………………………… . 2/06 peripheral finesse terabytes conjure grandmasters gizmos obsolete mambo Use these words to complete the poem. Then listen and check. • Complete the summary of the poem. • New Computer We have bought a new computer that’s the fastest ever seen. It has __________ of memory and a forty-eight inch screen. It has all the latest __________ and accessories galore. It has every last __________ they carried at the store. It has disk drives by the dozen it has twenty-seven mice, and it even has a microwave included in the price. It can teach you how to __________ It can play the violin. It can calculate the distance from Botswana to Berlin. It can speak in seven languages with scholarly __________, then defeat the world’s __________ in a tournament of chess. It can __________ anti-gravity, or build a time machine. Our computer is undoubtedly the fastest ever seen. When we went and bought it yesterday we thought it pretty neat, but today our new computer is already __________. Kenn Nesbitt 150 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv