1º Medio - Futuristic visions part 1

I. Read the text in this website.

http://www.manolith.com/2009/07/30/pending-future-technologies/

Answer TRUE or FALSE to these statements. Correct false statements.

1. Moller Industries is a company specialized in flying cars
2. The idea of flying platforms appeared in 1987
3. Professor Archibald Lawn predicted the roofed city.
4. The personal Jet Pack was thought to be worn in our heads.
5. The robot housemaid will help people to do house hold tasks.
6. Pill foods will have all the necessary nutrients that our body need.
7. The Kid’s whole future catalog is a magazine that talks about vacationing in a Space Resort.
8. By the year 2079 the Olympic Games will take place in the Lunar Olympic Stadium at the moon.
9. The documentary 2000 AD predicted that in the future we will develop a way to control the weather.
10. “Future color” was a documentary that in 1972 predicted that in the future we will be able to change the color of our skin.
11. A Classroom in the future will be a kind of Airship with theaters and living pods.
12. Hover boards are flying skateboards that floats using the Earth’s magnetic waves.

II. Read the text in this website. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0904/articles/mainarticle.html

Find these phrases in the text:

Home, sweet robot:

Poner la mesa y lavar los platos.

una casa que habla.

Cities in Space:

La energía de sol proveería todo el poder.

conoces a alguien que viva en otro planeta?

Present + posible future:

Tenía una especial forma de mantenerse en contacto con las personas.

Tenía un teléfono que podía usar en cualquier parte.

Up, Up, but not away:

La vida real resultó ser más complicada.

el estruendo del motor puede dañar tu audición.

Getting from here to there:

Las compañías trataron de hacer autos que se condujesen solos.

Era un auto volador con alas retráctiles.

Fast forward:

Eran muy grandes, del tamaño de una habitación.

Es difícil pensar en un mundo sin computadores.

October 17th - 3º Electivo - SOCIAL NETWORKING

1. The background

a. Define Social Networking.

b. Give 5 examples of social networks

c. For each of the five of the social networking sites include the following:

1. The logo

2. Creator

3. Objective (What is it used for)

2. The vocabulary

a. Match these words with its proper definition:

A	B
1. blog	to believe that someone is good to you and won't do anything bad
2. founder	a person who started something
3. celebrate	to add new information about something
4. interact	to use together
5. sign up	something you want to do
6. share	to write something in a different language
7. survey	to talk to each other and work together
8. aim	questions that you ask people in order to find out what they think about something
9. update	to join , become a member
10. environment	the world around us
11. trust	a webpage that has information on a certain subject; the newest articles are at the top
12. translate	to do something nice and have fun at a special event

b. Choose 10 words from the vocabulary list and write 10 complete sentences in English.

3. The video

On YouTube search the video under the heading: “Social Networking in Plain English”

Watch and listen the video and complete the script:

Networks get ……………………………. done. Whether it's sending a ……………………………. or lighting your home. Networks make it ……………………………..

To get from ……………………………. to Santa Fe, we need to see the network of ……………………………. that will get us …………………………….. We see that Chicago is ……………………………. to St Louis, which is connected to Dallas, which is connected to Santa Fe.

Of ……………………………. , people networks can help us with finding ……………………………. , meeting new ……………………………. , and finding ……………………………. . You know how it works. Bob is your friend, he knows Sally, and Sally's friend Joe has a job for you. This is a network of ……………………………. - a social network.

The ……………………………. with social networks in the real ……………………………. is that most of the connections ……………………………. people are hidden. Your network may have huge ……………………………. , but it's only as ……………………………. as the people and connections that you can …………………………….

This problem is being ……………………………. by a type of web site ……………………………. a social networking ……………………………. . These websites help you see connections that are ……………………………. in the real world.

Here's how it works. You sign up for a ……………………………. account and fill out your ……………………………. . Then, you look for people you ……………………………. .

When you find ……………………………. , you click a ……………………………. that says, "Add as Friend". Once you do this, you and that person have a ……………………………. on the website that others can see. They are a ……………………………. of your network, and you are a member of theirs.

What's really ……………………………. , is that you can see who your friends know, and who your friends' friends know. You're no ……………………………. a stranger, so you can contact them more ……………………………. .

This ……………………………. a real world problem because your network has hidden ……………………………. . Social networking sites make these connections between people ……………………………. .

Like a ……………………………. for a highway, they can show you the people network that can help you get to your next ……………………………. , whether it's a job, a new partner, or a great ……………………………. to live. Your network is suddenly more ……………………………. .

You can get ……………………………. at these sites, LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace.

I'm Lee LeFever, and this has been Social Networking in Plain English on the Common Craft Show.

4. The interview

a. Create a short survey (10 questions) about the use of social networking in English .

E.g. What social networking websites do you visit? How much time do you spend/ How often do you…, etc

b. Interview 20 people from your elective or class group.

c. Check the answers from the interview score the results and design graphs (bar/pie).