1. Questions
- avoiding the classic mistakes, and using them more often and in different ways
What is wrong with this question?
"What two obvious grammatical mistakes you can make when forming a question in English?"
Questions: correct the mistakes...
1. How an artificial limb could possibly be an improvement on the real thing?
2. You mean in the future it will be our only option a one-child policy?
3. Would you agree if a basic understanding of computer technology is essential in this day and age?
4. It has been stated technological innovation is the key to a nation’s success, does it not?
5. Could it be envisaged a world without trees?
6. Does make sense we have the knowledge to do things, yet we don’t do them?
2. Talking about the past
Using the full range with greater ease
What is the purpose of Past Perfect (had + pp)?
Vocabulary focus
Film
Inventions
Social changes
Discussion - Ahead and behind
1. What do we mean when we say one country is "light years" ahead of (or behind) another?
2. Do you feel your country is behind or ahead technologically?
3. In what other ways can countries be ahead and behind?
Skills and knowledge focus
1. Write a film review
2. Understand and discuss William Blake's poem London (1794)
3. Understand the Steven Spielberg's ideas around technology and film.
4. Learn about technological and social changes through the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
5. Understand and discuss the Jeremy Rifkin's ideas on the next Industrial Revolution and the Internet of Things.
Phrasal verbs
come into force
feed into
go down well
interfere with
level off
liken (sth / sb) to
put (sth) together
spark off
surge ahead
practice
Lead in
How have the technological advances of the last three decades affected these aspects of our lives?
Communication
Sport
Work life
Leisure
Travel
Transport
Health
Food
Kahoot on Inventions
18th or 19th Century?
Medieval help desk
Reading
Which would be the best first sentence?
A) Can you imagine a world without electricity? Radio? Hand sewing every item of clothing?
B) The Nineteenth Century astonishing developments in transportation, construction, and communication technologies.
C) The magnitude of social change in the Nineteenth Century was unprecedented.
Quizlet review - collocations "vastly + different"
Questions in a dialogue - what are the missing words?
A: In the last thirty years, technology has changed at a phenomenal rate. Would you (1)_____ that this makes the telecommunications industry exciting, or difficult and expensive, to keep up with?
B: How (2)______ we find it difficult to keep up when it is, in fact, us who are the innovators pushing these changes? Do you (3)______ it’s a fight for us to stay ahead of our game?
A: Yes exactly, and consumer interest needs to be encouraged constantly, doesn’t (4)____?
B: That’s not really a problem. The consumer is always hungry for innovations that make life easier, and they are very quick to adapt. Can you imagine your life (5)______ your iPad for example, having to carry around a heavy laptop computer? Of course not.
A: What (6)______ you say provides the best inspiration for new tech ideas?
B: Without a (7)______ young kids and teenagers. To them the technology that surrounds us is a given. They see the world without the encumbrance of knowing how it once was. They expect to be able to do things that may not be possible yet, so they push us to be innovative. Can they (8)_____ what kind of life they would have lived without the Internet, smartphones, tablets, iPods and social networking? Absolutely not! In fact, in the future they’ll laugh at these things. One day my three-year-old was trying to change the channel on the TV by swiping the screen with his finger. If he could do it on the iPad, (9)______ couldn’t he do it on a TV screen? That’s what I mean.
A: So if advances thus far have been so rapid, does it make (10)_____ that they will speed up in the future?
B: Most definitely.
A) Can you imagine a world without electricity? Radio? Hand sewing every item of clothing?
B) The Nineteenth Century astonishing developments in transportation, construction, and communication technologies.
C) The magnitude of social change in the Nineteenth Century was unprecedented.
Quizlet review - collocations "vastly + different"
Questions in a dialogue - what are the missing words?
A: In the last thirty years, technology has changed at a phenomenal rate. Would you (1)_____ that this makes the telecommunications industry exciting, or difficult and expensive, to keep up with?
B: How (2)______ we find it difficult to keep up when it is, in fact, us who are the innovators pushing these changes? Do you (3)______ it’s a fight for us to stay ahead of our game?
A: Yes exactly, and consumer interest needs to be encouraged constantly, doesn’t (4)____?
B: That’s not really a problem. The consumer is always hungry for innovations that make life easier, and they are very quick to adapt. Can you imagine your life (5)______ your iPad for example, having to carry around a heavy laptop computer? Of course not.
A: What (6)______ you say provides the best inspiration for new tech ideas?
B: Without a (7)______ young kids and teenagers. To them the technology that surrounds us is a given. They see the world without the encumbrance of knowing how it once was. They expect to be able to do things that may not be possible yet, so they push us to be innovative. Can they (8)_____ what kind of life they would have lived without the Internet, smartphones, tablets, iPods and social networking? Absolutely not! In fact, in the future they’ll laugh at these things. One day my three-year-old was trying to change the channel on the TV by swiping the screen with his finger. If he could do it on the iPad, (9)______ couldn’t he do it on a TV screen? That’s what I mean.
A: So if advances thus far have been so rapid, does it make (10)_____ that they will speed up in the future?
B: Most definitely.
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