Cars of the Future: Unit Standard 17363, Version 3
Student Sheet with Assessment Activity
Cars of the Future: Unit Standard 17363
Answers
1. False, True , False
2. Page 4, Page 6
3. See grids below:
MAIN IDEA
1. Cars will be able to
communicate.
EXPLANATION
2a. You can talk to the car
EXAMPLE
3a. “Turn on air
conditioning”
3b. “Turn up volume”
5 Computers will take
control over more and
more
2b. The car might speak to
you
4a. “Slow Down!”
6a. Computers will make
driving safer
4b. “I need more oil”
7a. The care might refuse
to speed
7b. Radars will tell you if
you are too close
6b. Computers will make
driving less challenging
8a. You can look at the
scenery
8b. You can listen to the
stereo
Fill in the spaces below by using your own words.
Main Idea
Supporting Ideas
Environmental
Problems
Air pollution
New Sources of
Power
1. Electric
The world will run
out of petrol.
2. Hydrogen
Advantages
Quiet
a. Do not cause
pollution
Disadvantages
a. Engines aren’t
very powerful.
b. Batteries are heavy
a. Difficult to store
4 Vocabulary
Say whether the meaning in the column next to the word is true or false for this story.
Choose ten of the words/phrases and say whether they are nouns/noun phrases,
verbs/verb phrases, adjectival phrase or adverb.
Page
Para-
Words/
Phrases
graph
Meaning in
Cars of the
Fut
narrow
road ure
3
4
6
1
3
track
service
3
a little flat
3
2
take the
next exit
even
4
suspensions
6
7
7
do
something
about it
refuse
report
1
exhausts
2
Store
3
Run out of
5 Joining Ideas
A. Pronouns
True/ False
Noun/
noun
phrase,
verb/ verb
phrase,
adjectival
phrase or
adverb
N
N
narrow road
F
a meeting in F
a church
with not
T
ADJPH
enough air
(“My left rear tyre is a little flat”.)
perhaps “is” should be included?
steal the
F
VPH
road sign
opposite of F
AVB
odd
(The driver will have nothing to do
except look at the scenery or listen to the
stereo or perhaps even read a book.)
students
F
N
sent home
from school
act
T
VPH
rubbish
F
V
Give
T
V
infomation
( The car might report it to the police)
Makes
F
N
people tited
keep to use T
V
later
(hydrogen is a gas, it’s hard to store it)
not have
T
VPH
enough
Look at the last two sentences on page 4.
A. "...the car might refuse to do it." What does it refer to?
go too fast
B. In the next paragraph (top of page 6), look at the next sentence: "Still they could be
good for driving in big cities ..." What does they refer to?
electric engines
B. Demonstrative pronouns
A. In the last sentence on Page 3, "Before too long, all cars will have systems like
these." What does these mean?
like the top cars' systems or
like the systems in BMWs & Mercedes, or
systems that make it harder to crash a car on the corner, or
systems that put the brakes on automatically and cut the engine power, or
the computer thinks the car is out of control, it can cut the engine or put the
brakes on to slow it down.
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C. Conjunctions
Read the first part of page 6 again and find out what functions these conjunctions
have in the text. Match them to their functions chosen from the box below.
Write the correct letter in the square.
but the engines aren't very powerful
because hydrogen is a gas
D
B
Introduce a clause which
A. shows what happens at this time
B. balances a positive and a negative
C. tells the place it happens
D. gives a reason
B
B