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Goals • Evaluate aspects of scientific progress. • Discuss ethical behaviour. • Argue on the basis of scientific facts. • Study scientific language. Writing: Ambivalent inventions In your favourite newspaper you have read a list of innovations that changed the world. The list contained all the developments, inventions and discoveries mentioned on these two pages. As a young person you are worried about certain scientific developments which might affect you and your family. Therefore you have decided to write an essay which you would like to hand in to the students’ page of your favourite newspaper for publication. In your essay you should: • analyse the relevance of some of these inventions and discoveries for their time and for today • explain your worries • suggest measures and strategies to deal with the situation Give your essay a title . Write around 400 words . 3 1962 1969 1973 1990–1991 1994 1996 G 9 The scientists who discovered the double helix structure of the DNA win the Nobel Prize. K 7 The first call from a hand-held mobile phone is made. The prototype weighed around one kg. I 11 The World Wide Web is opened to the public and rapidly gains popularity. H 10 The wheel is invented. L 8 The first genetically modified tomatoes are sold in supermarkets. J 12 The Wright brothers build the first motor- ised, heavier-than-air flying machine. 91 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv