Technology.- Unit 1. Technology and Society

UNIT_1. TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY.

UNIT_1. TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY.

* KEY WORDS: System, items, manufacture, products, inventions, research, calculate/calculator, transmit/transmitter, H-Shaped, L-Shaped, A-frame, U-Bend,

UNIT Nº5 OF THE BOOK (link here to see it): "DESCRIPTIONS":

•  USES: Descriptions of uses: What is this used for?; What´s this for?. It is used for ...-ing; It`s to....-infin;  It can be used for/to/as...
• APPEARANCE: It looks like..;It is shaped like...;It is in the shape of a circle;It´s an L-shape object.
• DEFINITIONS: That, which, who.

"Video: Evolution of the Technology"

1.- TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE.
What´s technology?: Technology is the group of knowledge, skills, and techniques that human use to satisfy needs and to solve problems.
Techhnology is the practical application of knowledge. Technology works like a system that involves turning natural items into useful products: eg.car, tin, clothes, etc. It´s the “know-how”.
Technology works like a system (Input-Process-Output and feedback) where natural items turn into manufactured products. Systems are developed to address a goal. 

• The INPUT are the resources availble to the system.
• The OUTPUT are the products generated by this system.
• The PROCESS is the way to get the goal.
• The FEEDBACK is used to control this process, it is the signal or measure that says how well the goal is being achieved, or how well the process is working.

2.- TECNOLOGY AND SOCIETY.
Technology and society work together: technology responds to society´s needs and helps societe to develop.
Nowdays technology is present in all areas of society and has made major changes to our lives. Can you image a world without telephones or computers? And without cars, trains or planes? Could we live with food that only comes from tradicional agricultural processes?

Activities Unit 1

ACTIVITY Nº1:
1.1. Look for information about the main industries in your community. Write a short report about what is produced and how technology is used for.

Peugeot is a French car. Their use of technology is very varied, is used, for example, to lift cars, paint, assemble them, etc ....
Their technology is very clean and does not pollute the air or the atmosphere. They make so-called hybrid cars, which have gasoline and electricity.

1.2. Find out and write down the environmental problems that can come from those processes.

ACTIVITITY Nº2:
2.1. Complete the folowing table into your wordprocessor and copy-paste it into your BLOG.

PRODUCT	NEEDS	KNOWLEDGE	SKILL	RISK
Tin	Food	Chemist	Metal working	Burning
PC	Communication	Informatic	Programming	Factory waste
Car	Travelling	Mecanic	Driving	Accident
Flute	Entertainment	Music	Playing	Noise

2.2. Make a table with ten inventions, their inventors and the date. Do it into your word processor and paste it on your blog.

TIMELINE
3500a.D.	Wheel
1440	Printing house	Johannes Gutenberg
1876	Telephone	Alexander Graham Bell
1923	Television	Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
1941	Velcro	George De Mestral
1945	Microwave	Percy Spencer
1960	Internet	Bill Gates
1996	DVD	Toshiba
2001	Ipod	Steve Jobs
2005	Facebook	Mark Zuckerberg

2.3. Choose an invent and make a report similar to this. LINK:_EDISON 

Printing house

After the invention of the printing press and the adaptation of the wine press, Gutenberg continued to experiment with printing to get a functional appliance.

He was born in Germany. In 1440 invented the printing press.
Gutenberg's printing press is an adaptation of the presses used to squeeze the juice of the grape in wine making.

ACTIVITY Nº3:

3.1. Find out the opposites of these word:

a) Pull out; Come.

b) Put on; Take off

c) Put together; Disassemble 

d) Put in; Out of

3.2. Match the tools you need with the actions:

a) To cut a plywood board; hand saw
 b) To glue two pieces of wood; Silicone
 c) To measure a board; Ruler
 d) To sand a corner of a pieces of planks; Sand paper
 e) To make a hole; Driller
f) To insert a nail. Hammer

3.3. Write down in your blog why this actions are dangerous in a workshop:

a) running: I think running is dangerous because you might fall.

b) juming: Because you can fall and gouge a tool

c) having loose hair: Hair can become entangled with a tool.

d) push: I think it's dangerous because it can cause an accident to the person who push or another person.

3.4.- Copy and complete these sentenses about health and safety.

a) "You musn´t wear rings or having loose hair because: It difficults your work and it can tangle with other things.

b) "You musn´t make too much noise becaus: You can disturb who is around you

c) "You must keep your workstation clean and tidy because: You will work better and your work can get dirty. 

3.5.- Match the tools you need with the actions. Use your dictionary. Copy them into your notebook and draw a picture of the tools next to the word

-Glue and clamps to glue two pieces of wood. (1-b)

-A saw to cut a plywood board. (2-a)

-Ruler or set square to measure a board.(3-e)

-File or sandpaper to sand the corner of a piece of planks. (4-c)

-Punch or make a hole to insert an eye bolt in a piece of wood. (5-d)

ACTIVITY Nº4.

4.1. Listen the following Post and answer the questions:LINK

"Everyone talks about how kids these days use technology much more than in the past, but when I think back to my childhood, I remember how technology was a huge part of my life. The first thing is the cassette tape, especially when I was in high school, every Friday night my favorite radio station used to play complete records, and I would stay up till about ten o'clock in the evening and have my cassette recorder ready and I would record the entire album, the entire record from the radio and then I would be able to play it in my car. I was born in 1971, so when I was a kid, people weren't using the internet but I had a computer in my house when I about 11 or 12 years old and my dad taught me some basic programming and I even created a program where I fooled one of my friends into thinking that we had entered into the computer record system at my school and he was getting a bad grade in social studies and I made it look like we had entered into the social studies records file and I changed his grade and he was very scared about this. He went home and told his dad and finally called me back later on that evening and said, "Hey, my dad said that you need a modem to break into another computer."

1) What did the radio station do on Sunday nights? 

 a) Play cassette tapes. b) Play complete records. c) Give away prizes.

2) What did Joel do on Sunday nights? 

 a) Go driving. b) Call in to win prizes c) Record albums from the radio.

3) Joel got a computer when he was _______ years old. 

 a) 19 b) 9 c) 11 or 12

4) He pretended to change his friend's grade in _______. 

 a) social studies b) social sciences c) social dance

5) His friend's dad said _______ was needed to change the grade. 

 a) emotion b) a modem c) a motive