Unit 1: Technology and Society.

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.
-Rodise S.L.: makes things for mechanism. 
-Pull & Bear: makes clothes and shoes. 

 
1.2. Find out and write down the environmental problems that can come from those processes.
It can cause global warming and pollution.



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


Printing press

1450

James Watt

Steam engine

1663

Joseph Nicéphore

Photography

1827


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


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; pull off
c) Put together; pull apart
d)Put in; pull out

3.2. Match the tools you need with the actions:
a) To cut a plywood board; saw
b) To glue two pieces of woo;Glue and Clamps
c) To measure a board;  Ruler or Set Suare
d) To sand a corner of a pieces of planks; Files 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 ith a tool

   c) having loose hair: I tthink having lose hair is dangerous because it can be caught by the machines  
   d) push: I think pushing is dangerous because you can push a classmate against a machine and hurt him