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.

• 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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