UNIT 1. TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

1.1.- TECHNOLOGIES IN OUR LIFES.



People are very impressed by the fact that computers can solve all kinds of math problems, sotre records, act as intelligent typwriters and run a Nintendo game.
Computer can also control the operatation of a car engine and record time on the face of a digital watch.
But are the computers smart?
Although computers can do all these things, they still can´t think. Thera are just electronic devices that can be turned on or off like a radio or television. But they can change and improve our lives and the world we live in. 



Conversation: LINK



Mark: Hey, Mike. Here's a question. Do you think teenagers these days, have a better life than say we did when we were teenagers?

Mike: Well, it's, that's a debate that's been going on since the days of Socrates and Plato, I think, but again, and probably like Socrates had said himself, "You know kids today are a lot different than they were when we were younger", that's for sure. Whether it's better or not, I personally think we had it better because we weren'tstuck behind a computer or behind a TV set all day. I think we tended to do things more outside, but I think whether you're a teenager now or then, probably the same kind of issues went on in your head.

Mark: Yeah, that's the way I feel about it, actually.

Mike: Think so.

Mark: Well, these kind of debates or these kid of issues, I feel like there is no better or worse, it's just different, you know.

Mike: How do you think it's different?

Mark: Well, in obvious ways, like the technology now. Like I can remember the first, my first microwave and my family's first VCR, and those were, you know, pretty exciting moments, yeah, absolutely.

Mike: How's about going to the library to have to get research.

Mark: Yeah! That's interesting, but people don't do that much anymore and I don't even realize that, but yeah the technology is definitely better now, but it's more addictive. I mean kids don't play outside. They just play video games all day and you know, I wasn't allowed to stay inside so much when I was a kid.

Mike: Same here. Same here. I was sort of forced to go outside, but also, although, I guess you could make an argument and say the kids do kind of play with each other when they get on those, the internet gaming sites, and there's a whole group of them from Morocco to Mexico to Canada to the States, all playing online, of course, they never see each other but they're all trying to kill each other.
ACTIVITY  Nº1: "Conversation about Teens and Technologies"


a)  Complete these sentences alter Reading the following conversation. 

a. Video games can be addictive
b. Some children are stuck behind a computer all day.
c. They are not sure nowdays teens have it better today.
d. Kids tend to stay indoors more these days.
e. Mark was not allowed to stay indoors on a nice day.
f. The most obvius difference today is technology.

b)  Explain what do you think about the question: “Do you think teenagers these days, have a better life than say we did when we were teenagers?”

I think that it isnt better or worse, its a different life.



ACTIVITY  Nº2:  "Reading Comprehension".


a) Choose a text ( A, B or C) read it and answer the questions in your Blog.
b) Make a summary about these report.
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1.2. SCIENCE COMPUTER SYSTEM.
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ACTIVITY Nº3: "INFORMATION SYSTEM"



Copy in your blog the following questions and theirs answers:
a) Make a picture about an information system.
b) Give four common examples of information system.
c) Make a table with several advantages and disadvantages using a computerised information system.
d) What is the different between software and hardware?
e) List the five categories of hardware.
f) Explain what is meant by the following terms: a) Operating System, b) Machine language