Explore reading: How a stunning aurora video was made Read the text about filming the Northern Lights. Complete the sentences (1–7) using a maximum of four words. Write your answers in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. 24 Even a fever couldn’t keep filmmaker Anna Possberg from photographing auroras literally dancing atop her car. “We jumped out and said, ‘The hell with the flu, we have time back home to get healthy again; we have to do some work,’”recalls Possberg, who was photographing aurora borealis in February in Tromsø, Norway, as part of her Arctic Lightscapes project. Auroras result from charged particles that are flung off the sun’s surface during solar storms known as coronal mass ejections. When the particles collide with the earth’s atmosphere, they cause geomagnetic storms that trigger the neon-coloured auroras. Over the past year, Possberg and her husband, (…) a radiologist who’s also an avid traveller and photographer, and Anna is a full-time professional filmmaker. The Arctic Lightscape project, which the couple funds independently, resulted in a time-lapse video: a series of still photographs stitched together into a video format and published on Vimeo recently. Possberg, who’s based in Freyung, Germany, started Arctic Lightscapes in 2012 during a photography trip to Sweden, when she found herself “attracted magically” to auroras but realised that filming them is impossible. Gorgeous as they are, the light emitted by auroras is too faint for Explore writing: A business email You graduated from an international technical college three years ago. Your former school is planning a plenary discussion titled ‘Future careers’ for current students and their parents. You’ve heard about this and want to take part as one of the speakers. Write an email to your former head teacher in which you: ■■ describe your studies/work experience in the three years since you left school. ■■ outline how technology has and is going to influence the world of work. ■■ comment on the working world as it appears to a young man/woman just about to embark on a career. 1 Writing guide: Email/Letter, p. 195. 23 Interaction (8–10 minutes): After your presentation, you and your classmate lead a panel discussion about possible areas of frontier technology application and consequences for the job market. You have set it up in the form of a conversation in which you ask each other questions and develop possible answers. Simultaneously, the audience can post their questions in the chat. You talk about the following issues: ■■ Current examples of the Internet of Things and future opportunities. ■■ The influence of frontier technologies on the job market (e.g. Will they kill jobs?). ■■ The implementation of frontier technologies in Austria (e.g. Which areas could be developed more?). 128 Language skills Extras Explore 9 Technology and science Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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