How to talk about science and technology

Technology

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Talking about technology

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Look at how to answer some technology related questions and the vocabulary you can use. 

INTERNET ADDICTION

1. Click here to do a listening activity about FOMO (Fear of Missing Out).

2. Are people spending too much time on their computers. Listen to a lecture about IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder) and do the exercise. You can also read the script.

Written Mediation- La tecnología de la addicción

This is the video you need to watch to do the written mediation for next week. Watch it twice and take notes. Use your notes to do the task. You have 15 minutes and should write only between 90 and 100 words.

You have attended a talk about the addiction to new technologies organized by the IT department of your daughter’s school and you’ve watched an interesting video about this topic. You have a Welsh friend with a daughter of the same age and think the content of the video can be useful for him/her. Write him/her an email telling him/her the main ideas in the video.

Technology report

Click here to do a very easy listening activity that provides some good ideas to speak about this topic.

Click here to watch a video about 5 technological advances on the brink of huge breakthroughs.

Women in Technology

Click here to watch a video and do a comprehension activity.

Mobile phones

Are you addicted to your mobile phone?

I Forgot My Phone from Miles Crawford on Vimeo.

• Have you ever used your mobile phone in any of the ways you so in the film when you were with another person?
• How do you feel when other people use their mobile phones when they're with you?
• Which of the things do you find most annoying?

The smartphone problem. 
This is the video we watched in class and it's on your photocopy.

Technology

Women in Technology
Watch a video and do a comprehension activity.

Driverless cars
Click here to watch a video and do some activities.

3D printers

Watch a video and answer the questions. Check your answers in "comments".


1. How do some people call 3D Printing?
2. What materials can 3D printers use?
3. What do they print?
4. Mention two examples of things you could print.
5. What do they say about 3D printers and design? How is that good for prosthetic limbs?
6. What can high-end machines print? What does that allow?
7. What could you do if you could print tissue?
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8. Would we have one at home soon?

Are you an Internet addict?

Try this quiz and find out.

Watch this video and see if you are tech addicted?

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