UNIT 1 - TECHONOLOGY AND SOCIETY

UNIT1. TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY.

* KEY WORD: System, items, manufacture, products, invents, research.

UNIT Nº5 OF THE BOOK: "DESCRIPTIONS":

• FUNCTION OR USE: What is this used for?; What´s this for?. It is used for ...-ing;
• FUNCTION: Calculate--Calculator; Contain----Container
• APPEARANCE: It looks like..;It is shaped like...;It is in the shape of a circle;It´s an L-shape object.

"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?

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. There are many industries in Castilla-La Mancha such as Airbus and many agriculture.
1.2. Find out and write down the environmental problems that can come from those processes. Some problems are the primal materials and the pollution of the engines.

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	manufacture	pollution
PC	Information	informatics	find iformation	Factory waste
Car	movement	Mecanic	license	pollution
Flute	art	music	Playing	Noise

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

Wheel - Neolithic

Pintring Press - 1041

Submarine - 1620

Train - 1768

Phone - 1857

Radio - 1873

"Bombilla" - 1879

Car - 1886

Peniciline - 1918

TV - 1925

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

An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.

The human activity that surrounds aircraft is called aviation. Crewed aircraft are flown by an onboard pilot, but unmanned aerial vehicles may be remotely controlled or self-controlled by onboard computers. Aircraft may be classified by different criteria, such as lift type, propulsion, usage, and others.

ACTIVITY Nº3:
3.1. Find out the opposites of these word:
a) Pull out; Pull into  
b) Put on; Put off
c) Put together; Put opposite
d)Put in. Put out

3.2. Match the tools you need with the actions:
a) To cut a plywood board; b) To glue two pieces of woo; c) To measure a board; d) To sand a corner of a pieces of planks; e)To make a hole; f) To insert a nail.

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) jumping: I think jumping is dangerous, for instance if you jump you can hit yourself                                 and get injured.
c) having loose hair: I think having loose hair is dangerous because a person can slide.
d) push: I think push is dangerous because a person can be damaged.

3.4.- Copy and complete these sentenses about health and safety.
a) "You musn´t wear rings or having loose hair because is dangerous"
b) "You musn´t make too much noise because someone can get headache"
c) "You must keep your workstation clean and tidy because is healthy"

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

1.-Glue and clamps__b) To glue two pieces of wood.
2.-Saw__a) To cut a plywood board.
3.-Ruler or set square__e)To measure a board	c) To sand the corner of a piece of planks
4.-File or sandpaper__c)To sand the corner of a...	d) To insert an eye bolt in a piece of wood
5.-Punch or make a hole__d)To insert an...

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