TECHNOLOGIES

- DID YOU REMEMBER

THEM?
- WHICH ONE DID YOU
HAVE?
 Did you have this cell phone?
 What was your first cell phone?
 What was your first computer?
 Did you use overhead projector?
LET'S GET BACK TO THE
PAST…
 In groups, you are going to analyze some pictures from the past.
 Could you imagine that this product was like this in the past?
 Highlight the difference between past and present.
 Did you have one of these items in the past?
 Do you have a new version of one of them today?
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Progress is the fact that...

- average life expectancy in the world today is 68.9 years
compared with about 50 years at the start of the 20 th
century.
- global per capita income today is approximately ten times
what it was two centuries ago.
- you can watch your favorite series streaming online
whenever you want.
- the Internet has enabled global interconnectivity in real
time.
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INVENTIONS
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Solar roof panels Communications satellites

Microchips
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Match the columns

Technological advances Category

1) Communications satellites ( ) agriculture

2) Genetically modified ( ) housing
plants ( ) materials
3) Microchips ( ) medical care
4) Organs transplants ( ) technology/science
5) Solar roof panels
6) Toughened glass
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Match the columns

Technological advances Category

1) Communications satellites ( 2) agriculture

2) Genetically modified ( 5 ) housing
plants (6 ) materials
3) Microchips ( 4 ) medical care
4) Organs transplants (3, 1 ) technology/science
5) Solar roof panels
6) Toughened glass
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Which do you think was the earliest

technological advance?
Technological advances Category

1) Communications satellites ( 2) agriculture

2) Genetically modified ( 5 ) housing
plants (6 ) materials
3) Microchips ( 4 ) medical care
4) Organs transplants (3, 1 ) technology/science
5) Solar roof panels
6) Toughened glass
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Which do you think was the earliest

technological advance?
Technological advances Category

1) Communications satellites ( 2) agriculture

2) Genetically modified ( 5 ) housing
plants (6 ) materials
3) Microchips ( 4 ) medical care
4) Organs transplants (3, 1 ) technology/science
5) Solar roof panels
6) Toughened glass
Laminated glass was invented in 1903.
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Two materials are contrasted

What are they?
CERAMICS

GLASS
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How many words can you identify?
How many words can you identify?
14
Find four pairs of opposites
Find four pairs of opposites
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Match the columns

Adjectives Meanings
1. Absorbent ( ) allowing heat or electricity to pass through.
2. Brittle ( ) able to take in a lot of liquid.
3. Conductive ( ) hard and does not bend.
4. Elastic ( ) not letting water pass through the surface.
5. Flexible ( ) able to be stretched easily.
6. Magnetic ( ) delicate and easily broken.
7. Metallic ( ) strong.
8. Opaque ( ) able to move or bend easily.
9. Organic ( ) easy to see through.
10.Plastic ( ) able to draw iron or steel towards it.
11. Stiff ( ) difficult to see through.
12.Tough ( ) made of metal.
13.Transparent ( ) coming from living things.
14.waterproof ( ) made of plastic
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Match the columns

Adjectives Meanings
1. Absorbent ( 3 ) allowing heat or electricity to pass through.
2. Brittle ( 1 ) able to take in a lot of liquid.
3. Conductive (11) hard and does not bend.
4. Elastic (14) not letting water pass through the surface.
5. Flexible ( 4 ) able to be stretched easily.
6. Magnetic ( 2 ) delicate and easily broken.
7. Metallic (12) strong.
8. Opaque ( 5 ) able to move or bend easily.
9. Organic ( 13) easy to see through.
10.Plastic ( 6 ) able to draw iron or steel towards it.
11. Stiff ( 8 ) difficult to see through.
12.Tough ( 7 ) made of metal.
13.Transparent ( 9 ) coming from living things.
14.waterproof ( 10) made of plastic
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Add a prefix to these words to make its

opposites:

Adjectives

1. Conductive
2. Elastic
3. Flexible
4. Magnetic
5. Metallic
6. Organic
7. Transparent
8. Waterproof
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Add a prefix to these words to make its

opposite:

Adjectives

1. Conductive
2.
3.
Elastic
Flexible
In-
4.
5.
Magnetic
Metallic Non-
6. Organic
7. Transparent
8. Waterproof
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Add a prefix to these words to make its

opposite:

Adjectives Opposites

1. Conductive 1. Nonconductive
2.
3.
Elastic
Flexible
In- 2.
3.
Inelastic
Inflexible
4.
5.
Magnetic
Metallic Non- 4.
5.
Nonmagnetic
Nonmetallic
6. Organic 6. Inorganic
7. Transparent 7. Nontransparent
8. Waterproof 8. Non-waterproof