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(5) early indications of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden before he was (6)captured. Researcher Kalev Leetar said the study could now help analysts (7) spot future trouble in potential hotspots around the world. Business strategists already do a similar thing to (8) advise their clients. || || (15) focused on one place. Leetar likened his predictions to weather forecasting, saying: “It’s never perfect, but we do better than (16) random guessing." || || Good things bad things ||   ||   ||
 * 1. GAP FILL: ** Put the words into the gaps in the text.
 * Researchers say they can use news stories to help predict the future. Scientists from the University of Illinois in the USA (1) input over 100 million news articles into a supercomputer for analysis. The stories went back as far as 1945 and came from many (2) sources, including the BBC and New York Times. The (3) data showed how much unrest and discontent there was in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya before their (4) recent revolutions. The computer also saw
 * Leetar explained the (9) importance of news to look into the future: “News gives you (10) incredible information about people places, and organizations. It also tells you about the relationships between them, about how people (11) view each other,” he said. Leetar used terabytes of data to look at three (12) key areas. One looked at the tone of the journalists’ writing. It used 1,500 different (13) emotions to build an assessment of a country’s stability. Secondly, it examined geocoding to (14) track references to people’s movement. A third technique was network analysis to show how much news channels
 * 2. Listen and check your answers. ||  ||
 * **3. THE FUTURE:** What are your predictions? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change and share again.
 * **3. THE FUTURE:** What are your predictions? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change and share again.
 * **3. THE FUTURE:** What are your predictions? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change and share again.
 * This year for you: I'll go to England / I'll have more age. ||  ||
 * Your country: Won't have crysis/ Will be better. ||  ||
 * Sport: I will practise lots of sports/ I will learn to play different sports. ||  ||
 * Inventions: Somebody will invent the peace and the love/ Somebody will invent new arms. ||  ||
 * The world: Will be in peace/Will end. ||  ||
 * Your old age: I will be more inteligent/I will be an ancian. ||  ||

4. Talk to your friend and complete the predictions.

By the year 2020 we will both have 25 years. In ten years' time we will both be working. By this time next week I will have english class and my friend will have english class too. This time tomorrow I will be at home and my friend at high-school musical.

TASK: AN INFORMAL E-MAIL
TO: amlucy3@gmail.com FROM: uarealoser@hotmail.com SUBJECT: Pretty right !

Hi Lucy ! What's up? Do you remember that I said to you that I would like a motorbike? Well, I've been saving money.

Now, we will go to Valencia, to the beach, to the swimmingpool,... Without using the train or the bus !

The motorbike I have seen is blue, an has a radio ! It is fast, safe and confortable. It has a bag, where we can keep a lot of things. I love this motorbike and my parents will pay for a part of it, a big part of the motorbike, my grandma too. My friends love the idea !

Drop me a line.

Love, me.

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__**TASK 1. Choose the best option.**__

Scientists have discovered that addictions may be (1). A team from Britain’s University of Cambridge found that siblings of drug addicts (2) the same brain abnormalities as their drug-using brothers and sisters. The research team said these abnormal brain structures are linked (3) poor self-control and drug dependence. The researchers suggest that addiction is (4) some ways a “disorder of the brain”. This may provide important new ways into helping people with problems of self-control when it (5) to addictions. The study sought to find out if drugs changed the “wiring” of the brain or whether the brains of drug addicts were wired (6) from birth. Lead researcher Dr Karen Ersche told the BBC: “It has (7) been known that not everyone who takes drugs becomes addicted.” She continued: “It shows that drug addiction is not a choice of lifestyle, it is a disorder of the brain and we (8) to recognise this. These brothers and sisters who don't have addiction problems, what they can tell us is how they (9) these problems, how they manage self-control in their (10) life.” Dr Ersche and her colleagues studied 50 pairs of siblings — one with a history of drug addiction and one with no experience (11) taking drugs. She compared these with 50 healthy people. She concluded: “We need to find out how these non-addicted siblings were able to resist (12) drugs.”
 * Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.**
 * 1. || **(a)** || **hereditary** || (b) || herald || (c) || herded || (d) || heresy ||
 * 2. || (a) || compare || **(b)** || **share** || (c) || repair || (d) || fare ||
 * 3. || (a) || as || (b) || at || **(c)** || **to** || (d) || up ||
 * 4. || (a) || to || (b) || of || (c) || by || **(d)** || **in** ||
 * 5. || (a) || arrives || (b) || leaves || (c) || goes || **(d)** || **comes** ||
 * 6. || (a) || difference || (b) || differs || (c) || differently || **(d)** || **different** ||
 * 7. || **(a)** || **long** || (b) || deep || (c) || wide || (d) || tall ||
 * 8. || (a) || must || (b) || need || **(c)** || **should** || (d) || necessary ||
 * 9. || (a) || overjoy || (b) || overkill || **(c)** || **overcome** || (d) || overplay ||
 * 10. || **(a)** || **daily** || (b) || nightly || (c) || afternoon || (d) || morning ||
 * 11. || (a) || as || (b) || for || (c) || to || **(d)** || **of** ||
 * 12. || (a) || users || **(b)** || **using** || (c) || use of || (d) || uses ||

__**TASK 2. TRUE / FALSE**__


 * a. || Scientists say that many addictions may be hereditary. || **T** / F ||
 * b. || Drug addicts can have the same brain abnormalities as their siblings. || **T** / F ||
 * c. || Abnormal brain structures usually results in better self-control. || T / **F** ||
 * d. || The study may be able to help people control themselves better. || **T** / F ||
 * e. || Everyone who takes drugs becomes addicted in some way. || T / **F** ||
 * f. || A researcher said addiction is a brain disorder and not a choice. || **T** / F ||
 * g. || The researcher said one in fifty of us are drug addicts. || T / **F** ||
 * h. || The doctor knows why some siblings of drug addicts are not addicts. || T / **F** ||

__**TASK 3. SYNONYM MATCH.**__ Match the following synonyms from the article.


 * 1. || discovered || **8.** || get over ||
 * 2 || siblings || **4**. || give ||
 * 3. || linked || **5.** || tried ||
 * 4. || provide || **7.** || decision ||
 * 5. || sought || **2.** || brothers and sisters ||
 * 6. || lead || **10.** || stay away from ||
 * 7. || choice || **1.** || found out ||
 * 8. || overcome || **6.** || head ||
 * 9. || colleagues || **3.** || connected ||
 * 10. || resist || **9.** || co-workers ||