Unit 1.- Technology and Society


KEY WORD: System, items, manufacture, products, invents, research.
UNIT Nº5 OF THE BOOK: "DESCRIPTIONS":   
FUNCION OR USE: What is this used for?´--->What´s this for?---- It is used for ...-ing;
FUNTION: 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 kwonledge, 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?

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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.
  • Mazapán: one of the main industries in Toledo is the mazapán's industry. One of the most famous is Santo Tomé. It has several shops in the city.
  • Cheese industry: Manchego cheese is one of the most famous cheeses in the world. It employs technology in very different aspects: for feeding and taking care of the animals, for creating the cheese from animal's milk...One of the most famous is the Garcia Baquero. It is located in Alcazar de San Juan (Ciudad Real)
  • Wood Industry: It produce lots of wood items such as doors, cupboards...Technology is used in every steep. Since the wood is taking from the forest until the product is finished and ready to be sold. One of the main industries is located in a small village near Toledo, Sonseca, but there are lot of insustries of this kind in Toledo.
1.2. Find out and write down the environmental problems that can come from those processes.
  •  All of them produce factory waste. The mazapán and cheese industry produce almost the same enviromental problems because they are food and they are make with animal resources. The wood industry produce much more problems: to cut the trees in the forest, to destroy the animals habitat, as it has more process an it takes more time it produces more waste...

ACTIVITITY Nº2:

2.1. Complete the folowing table.
PRODUCT
NEEDS
KNOWLEDGE
SKILL
RISK
Tin
Food
Chemist
Investigating
Factory waste
PC
Work and Leisure
Programmer
Computing

Factory waste
Car
Transport
Mecanic
Assembling
Factory waste
Flute
Leisure
Musician
Playing
Noise

2.2. Make a table with ten invents, their inventors and the date.



INVENTOR


INVENT

YEAR

Johannes Gutenberg.

Printing press

1450

James Watt

Steam engine

1663

Joseph Nicéphore

Photography

1827

Samuel Morse

Telegraph

1832

Alexander Graham Bell

Telephone

1876

Thomas Alba Edison

Light bulb

1879

Paul Nipkow

Television

1884

Carl Benz

Car

1886

Guglielmo Marconi

Radio

1895

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

X-rays

1865


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

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

3.2. Match the tools you need with the actions:
a) To cut a plywood board; Saw
b) To glue two pieces of wood; Glue and Clamps
c) To measure a board; Ruler or Set Square
d) To sand a corner of a pieces of planks; File or Sand Paper
e)To make a hole; Drill 
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) jumping: I think jumping is dangerous because you can fall and hurt yourself with a tool   
  c) having loose hair: I think having lose hair is dangerous because it can be caugh by the   machines    
 d) push: I think pushing is dangerous because you can push a classmate against a machine and hurt him
3.4.- Copy and complete these sentenses about health and safety.
  • a) "You musn´t wear rings or having loose hair because: they can be caught by the machines
  • b) "You musn´t make too much noise because: you can disturb your classmates 
  • c) "You must keep your workstation clean and tidy because: if you don't do it you will not work properly
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
         a) To cut a plywood board/ 2

            2.-Saw A
         b)To glue two pieces of Wood/ 1 
            3.-Ruler or set square E 
         c) To sand the corner of a piece of planks/ 4
     
      4.-File or sandpaper C
         d) To insert an eye bolt in a piece of wood/5
     
    5.-Punch or make a hole D
         e) To measure a board/ 3
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