Unit 1.- Technology and Socity



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

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

INVENT
INVENTOR
YEAR
Telephone
Antonio meucci
1857
Locomotive
Richard Trevithick
1804
Print
Johannes Guntenberg
1440
Bulb
Thomas Alva Edison
1879
Television
Constantin Perski
1900
Paper
Ts´ai Lun
105 DC
Camera
Johann Zahn
1685
Telescope
Galileo Galila
1600
Microwave
Percy Le Baron Spencer
1945
Microphone
Edward Hughes
1878
Sewing Machine
Barthélemy Thimmonir
1830
Thermostater
Andrew Ure
1830
Stapler
Samuel Slowm
1841
Lift
Elisha Otis Grave
1851
Fan
John Joseph Wright
1882
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 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 caught 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