Listen to the texts and match them with the headings. There is one heading you do not need Transcript Text 1 This car looks a bit like a spaceship and that's not the only special thing about it. The car gets its power from the sun. Solar cars could solve pollution problems — but they stop running when the sun goes down. Text 2 The Hubble Space Telescope is a very special telescope. It flies high above the Earth orbiting it. The telescope allows us to see objects much more clearly than the Earth-based telescopes. Hubble is not only a powerful telescope, it also carries cameras which allow scientists to see objects billions of light years away. Text 3 The word "umbrella" is Italian and it means "a little shade". However, the Italians didn't invent the umbrella. It was used many centuries ago in the East as a protection against the sun. In Britain the umbrella appeared in the 18th century and it was used more as a protection against the rain. People believe that the very first man who was seen in the streets of London with an umbrella was Jonas Hanway. There is a monument to him in Westminster Abbey. Text 4 The word "chatbot" means a "chatter robot". Chat-bots are computer programs which can do a lot of things. They can teach you English, French, Spanish and Japanese. They can guide you through different websites, and answer your questions. And they can even talk to each other! Text 5 Five thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians wrote things down using picture writing called hieroglyphics. The people who did the writing were called scribes. The scribes had a problem, however. The ancient Egyptians wrote everything down, absolutely everything. Although hieroglyphics were very pretty, it took time to write in pictures. Scribes needed a faster way to write things down, so they created a new form of writing called Demotic script. Now they could write much quicker, but the skill of reading in hieroglyphics was lost and for hundreds of years, people didn't know what they meant. The Oldest Source of Energy Doing a New Job Reaching For the Stars Eastern Invention Popular in the West Talkative Machines How It Began New Technologies in Education Text 1 Text 2 Text 3 Text 4 Text 5 Extra

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Listen to the texts and match them with the headings. There is one heading you do not need
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Text 1

This car looks a bit like a spaceship and that's not the only special thing about it. The car gets its power from the sun. Solar cars could solve pollution problems — but they stop running when the sun goes down.

Text 2

The Hubble Space Telescope is a very special telescope. It flies high above the Earth orbiting it. The telescope allows us to see objects much more clearly than the Earth-based telescopes. Hubble is not only a powerful telescope, it also carries cameras which allow scientists to see objects billions of light years away.

Text 3

The word "umbrella" is Italian and it means "a little shade". However, the Italians didn't invent the umbrella. It was used many centuries ago in the East as a protection against the sun.

In Britain the umbrella appeared in the 18th century and it was used more as a protection against the rain. People believe that the very first man who was seen in the streets of London with an umbrella was Jonas Hanway. There is a monument to him in Westminster Abbey.

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The word "chatbot" means a "chatter robot". Chat-bots are computer programs which can do a lot of things. They can teach you English, French, Spanish and Japanese. They can guide you through different websites, and answer your questions. And they can even talk to each other!

Text 5

Five thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians wrote things down using picture writing called hieroglyphics. The people who did the writing were called scribes. The scribes had a problem, however. The ancient Egyptians wrote everything down, absolutely everything. Although hieroglyphics were very pretty, it took time to write in pictures. Scribes needed a faster way to write things down, so they created a new form of writing called Demotic script. Now they could write much quicker, but the skill of reading in hieroglyphics was lost and for hundreds of years, people didn't know what they meant.

The Oldest Source of Energy Doing a New Job
Reaching For the Stars
Eastern Invention Popular in the West
Talkative Machines
How It Began
New Technologies in Education

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