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:
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 |
Printing press | 1450 | |
James Watt | Steam engine | 1663 |
Joseph Nicéphore | Photography | 1827 |
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 |
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
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; Hammer3.3. 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
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 |
Name: Alexander Graham Bell
Date of Birth: March 3, 1847
Date of Death: August 2, 1922
Source: Edinburgh, Scotland
Job: Scientist and Inventor
Time: Contemporary
English scientist and inventor, is credited with the invention of the telephone and other smaller studies, among others, a device to limit the effects of deafness. Born in March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, studied at university in London to Scottish and later emigrated to Canada and the United States (1870-1871). He taught a deaf and reported visible speech system developed by his father (Alexander Melville Bell), who was an educator. Graham showed how using your lips, tongue and throat in the articulation of sound. In 1872 he founded in Boston, a school for the deaf, which is then integrated into the university where Graham Bell was a professor of vocal physiology. During his stay in Boston fell in love with a deaf student, who urged him to continue his research, he married her in 1877.
Bell had to go on trial for a patent on the telephone, and at the same time, Gray was filed in the registry with a phone device, but Bell won. The rapid expansion throughout the world, so interesting transmitter of the word, gave universal popularity Graham Bell.
With the patent in his hands, he founded the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Three years later, France awarded him the Volta Prize (50 000 francs), for his invention, with the capital, he founded the Volta Laboratory in Washington DD, which would make a series of inventions along with other scientists, such as photophone (transmitter apparatus sounds by means of light rays), the audiometer (meter hearing acuity), the induction balance, the first wax cylinder to record sounds.
Became a U.S. citizen in 1882 co-founded the National Geographic Society, founder of the journal Science (1883). In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Graham Bell got involved in aviation and investigated with large kites and comets, including the ability to transport a person, with a group of partners, developed the wing of an airplane wing that allows roll control.
cluded his experiments and his invention were announced during a demonstration at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
A 126 years since the invention of the telephone by Graham Bell, new controversy over the patent, even the House of Representatives of the United States recognized as author of the invention to the Italian Antonio Meucci, who until his death established trial to get the recognition by the world to Alexander Graham Bell. Bell and Meucci, will remain in history as the inventor of the telephone, but the two have never met and only because Bell had enough money to pay for the patent, Meucci, no
