Aug 24, 2009

Technological advances (Activity)

In order to talk about a topic we first need to develop vocabulary. Activities 4 A and B on page 20 aim to get your attention to some relevant words regarding advances in technology. Complete the activities and if necessary check a dictionary and pronunciation. Send answers here, I'll post the correct answers tomorrow afternoon. Second thing to do is to consider the headline (taken from same page 20) Internet peaks as most important information source and post here your pros and your cons on that headline. Need at least three of each. We'll use this information in a discussion in class, but need it to be ready and done.

Last one, I'm posting here an article on technological advances. Everyone should write a summary and post it here by FRIDAY 28 Aug 09. Check the following point in writing a summary in English:
  • Mention the most important points of the reading.
  • Use your own words, do not copy sentences exaclty from the original text.
  • It must be much shorter than the original text.

32 comments:

Karla M. Liñán said...

4.
A)
1.audacious (c)
2.confidential (d)
3.frivolous (a)
4.hazrdous(f)
5.problematic(g)
6.prudent(b)
7.unethical(e)

B)
1.confidential
2.problematic
3.prudent
4.unethical
5.hazardous
6.audacious
7.frivolous

5.
Internet peaks as most important information source.
PROS
1.A bigger part of people would have access to Internet.
2.The numbers of sources that can be used would be bigger. People would have access to more sources.
3.It would improve the classic way of learning by using educational webpages to teach.

CONS
1.There would be some wrong information on Internet,so, if there is no surpervision on what is on, how can we know that the information is reliable.
2.Leave books as the most important infomation source.
3.Stop using other sources.

MAC said...

Thanks Karla,
Your answers to activity 4 A and B are all correct. In activity B, question 5 "problematic" is also possible.

See ya tomorrow, I'll be there!

Unknown said...

4.-A)
1.-c
2.-d
3.-a
4.-f
5.-g
6.-b
7.-e
B)
1.-confidential
2.-problematic
3.-prudent
4.-unethical
5.-hazardous
6.-audicious
7.-frivolous

Activity 5
PROS.-1)You can find almost every kind of information for school or for work.
2)All people could have access to the internet
3)you can find information very fast.
CONS.-1)The information you can find could be wrong.
2)as it is so easy to find information other sources can be obsolete.
3)Internet can be used by bad people like hackers.

Unknown said...

I
ex. A

1.audacious..... c
2.confidential...d
3.frivolous......a
4.hazrdous.......f
5.problematiC....g
6.prudent........b
7.unethical......e

ex. B

1.confidential
2.problematic
3.prudent
4.unethical
5.hazardous
6.audacious
7.frivolous

II.
Internet peaks as most important information source.

+ it is cheaper than books.
+ you can save a lot information, its easier than have papers and other kind of sources.
+ everybody can know news very quickly that are happening in other side of the world.

- its posible that you find wrong information
- hackers can check your personal information
- parents have to check at their children because they can acces at bad websites.

Unknown said...

Page 20
A
1.- g
2.- d
3.- c
4.- f
5.- e
6.- b
7.- a

B
1.- confidential
2.- audicious
3.- prudent
4.-unethical
5.-hazardous
6.- prudent
7.- frivolous

5.- Pros and Cons
Pros:
• Microchips give us a litlle bit more confident about our security.
• Plants genetically engineered, rise the production, and whit this the prices is going to be lower
• We got all information easly anytime we need

Cons.
• On line are a lot off fake information.
• Plant genetically engineered can be more hazardous for humans
• A lot of content on line, are not allow for children, but they have acces.

Unknown said...

Hi teacher!!
Excercice 4, page 20:

A)
1.audacious (c)
2.confidential (d)
3.frivolous (a)
4.hazrdous(f)
5.problematic(g)
6.prudent(b)
7.unethical(e)

B)
1.confidential
2.problematic
3.prudent
4.unethical
5.problematic
6.audacious
7.frivolous

5.
Internet peaks as most important information source.
PROS
1.-You can find information on almost every topic that you want, for example, when you are doing a resorce about economics crisis or looking for a part of a cell of our body.

2.-You can follow your favorit sport team on real time in every game of them

3.-You can stay in touch with friends when the distance have pull apart

CONS
1.-Mean people can robe you and take away your credit cards

2.-There is a lot of porn in there.

3.-People can kednap you

Unknown said...

Ángeles Cantú

4ª-.
1- Audacious c
2- Confidential d
3- Frivolous a
4- Hazardous f
5- Problematic g
6- Prudent b
7- Unethical e

4b-.
Pros
1-. It´s faster tan other medias
2-. It has a lot of information on meny subjects
3-. It´s easy to find the information
Cons
1-. Not all information is true
2-. It makes people depends of a machine
3-. You find unpleasant information all time (pornografia)

Unknown said...

A:
1. audacious C
2. confidential D
3. frivolous A
4. hazardous F
5. problematic G
6. prudent B
7. unethical E

B:
1. confidential
2. problematic
3. prudent
4. unethical
5. hzardous
6. audacious
7. frivolous

5
Internet peaks as most important information source
Pros:
It’s a very fast way to find some information, just with typing a word is enough to find tons of web sites where you can find what you are looking for.
You can easily download many things such as videos, pictures, eBooks and so on.
Usually it’s free to visit a website to find some info.
You can use internet all over the world.
Cons:
There are so many hackers who can see your personal information and take advantage of it.
Sometimes we need more than being patient to use it.
People who didn’t grow up with computers might not be able to use it easily, they may find some difficulties.
Nowadays people are more otiose because they rely too much on the internet.

Unknown said...

Hi teacher!

Here are the excersices.

20 A

1.- AUDACIOUS C
2.- CONFIDENTIAL D
3.- FRIVOLOUS A
4.- HAZARDOUS F
5.- PROBLEMATIC G
6.- PRUDENT B
7.- UNETHICAL E

20 B

1.-CONFIDENTIAL
2.-PROBLEMATIC
3.-PRUDENT
4.-UNETHICAL
5.-HAZARDOUS
6.-AUDACIOUS
7.-FRIVOLOUS

INTERNET PEAKS AS MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION SOURCE

PROS
1) We can be connected with our friends, even if we don´t live in the same country.
2) You can meet new people.
3) Easy to find information for school projects.
4) We pass time.

CONS
1) Waste of time
2) May be dangerous because bad people can get our information from facebook or similar webs.
3) It is not sure the information we get is true.

Andrea Grimaldo Bovio

Hope to see you tomorrow teacher =)

Unknown said...

4.

A
audacious: c)
confidential: d)
frivolous: a)
hazardous: f)
problematic: g)
prudent: b)
unethical: e)

B
1. confidential
2. problematic
3. prudent
4. unethical
5. hazardous
6. audacious
7. frivolous


5.
*Internet peaks as most important information source.

PROS.
- You can find some information on any subject.
- It is very fast.
- You can talk with friends or family that are far away.
- You can easily buy many things.

CONS.
- Easly lose your information if the computer fails.
- There are many hackers.
- You lose privacy by the social pages.

Ale Castillo said...

I'm not going to put the answers of the ex. 4 because Karla alredy put it, and you (teacher) say that they are ok. So, I'm going only to write the pros and the cons. =9

Pros:
* When I need to investigate something, I have a lot of sources
* I can choose the source that is more relvenat for me
* The internet development give us the oportunity to share information, in seconds!!!

Cons:
* Information could be misused
* It is dangerous if an evil person has it, could damage
* Some information are not true or not coomplete -and it confuses

Mauro Moreno said...

Internet peaks as most important information source

Pros
1.- You can find information about all the things you need.
2.- It is useful to do scholar research.
3.- Is easy and fast to find the information.
4.- You can be in contact whit friends who live in others countries.

Cons
1.- Some information is not available to general public.
2.- In sites like facebook, mypace, etc. people with bad intentions can find personal information of you.
3.- When you are look for some type of information, some sources are not reliable and provide us bad o crash data.

Ana Lucia said...

Pross:
- It is faster than go to some library.
- You can get the newest information for the sources
- You can get as many sources from all the world.

Cons:
- The information could not be true.
- You can find a lot of information of the same topic, but ir could be different, so you do not know what is the correct one.
- Sometimes, you need old information and also details tath are in the books, and not in the internet.

I have the same answers than karla. So I did not wrote them.

Ana Lucia Molina

Unknown said...

Well, I check activities 4a and 4b. There are like karla´s answers

Pros:
=It´s fast and easy to find the information
=You can download many things like music, videos, papers, books and so on.
=I can talk with my family even if they are in other city or country

Cons:
= Sometime we can´t be sure that the information we get is true
= People can see your personal information and take advantage of it.
= It makes a lazy people because we use the copy and paste so people forget how write in your own words.

Elizabeth Martinez said...

4.- A
1. audacious c
2. confidential d
3. frivolous a
4. hazardous f
5. problematic g
6. prudent b
7. unethical e

4.- B

1. confidential
2. problematic
3. prudent
4. unethical
5. hazardous
6. audacious
7. frivolous

5.- Pros and Cons

Internet peaks as most important information source.

Pros:
a)You can find all information that you need.

b)In other times, you needed go to library and look for the topic that you needed, it was boring and tired, now you can find easily and quickly the topic that you want to find.

c) You can stay in touch with your friends.

d) You can download music, movies, videos, books, etc.

Cons:
a) Sometimes people can see your personal information.

b)Every day children have access to many websites that sometimes they aren’t good.

Karla Hernandez Valdez said...

4A:
1. audacious C
2. confidential D
3. frivolous A
4. hazardous F
5. problematic G
6. prudent B
7. unethical E

4B:
1. confidential
2. problematic
3. prudent
4. unethical
5. hazardous
6. audacious
7. frivolous

5:
Pros & Cons... Internet peaks as most important information source

Pros
1.You cand find all types of information in a second.
2.You can stay in touch with family and friends who are in other place or country.
3.You can buy anything:like food,clothes,books,accesories,etc.

Cons:
1.You have no privacy, anyone can see your profile or contact you.
2.Pop ups with akward informaion.
3.Insecurity for buying things.

Ale Castillo said...

The plastic sausage machine

Today an environmental problem is the way we use plastic, what we do with, after its use, and their damage. Recycling is a way to rescue plastic, there is a new factory that shows that it can be easier. In the dumps and landfills the interaction with food residue, bits of blue and shards of metal, damage plastic and it cause plastic to tear or break, avoiding to reuse all plastic. The factory that develops the machine -2K Manufacturing-, turns mixed plastic into a composite board called EcoSheet. It has a cost like plywood, can be used in buildings, is easier to work and it can be recycled again. The process is by encapsulation, powder-impresión moulding. 2K Manufacturing is in expansion and has plans to open plants in other cities of Britain, to collect the plastic waste in short distances.

Unknown said...

The plastic sausage machine

Plastic is an important product that has taken part of our life. It is very useful and practical. The problem is that sometimes we don’t use it in the right way, we over use it. Therefore some people have been interested in recycle it. Nowadays there is a factory in England named 2K Manufacturing which does recycle the plastic and gives plastic more ways to be used, for example they developed a new material called “Ecosheet” which is pretty same as plywood and actually it has a number of advantages over plywood. Of course it has some costs but this process seems to be profitable. Mr Kutluoglu, 2K Manufacturing’owner, is planning to double the production and eventually open 10 plants in different point of Britain, therefore they can transport their products to different areas.

Mauro Moreno said...

A new factory can turn almost any plastic into a useful product
Some years ago, plastic bottles can’t be recycled in one step because it’s most be clean and sorted in various types and that process are expensive. Nowadays, a new factory changes the way of this preposition, this factory can recycle mixed and dirty bottles and in the end of the process create a substitute of some type of wood, plywood.
The mayor part of plastics are made by polymers, if the plastic really contains this polymers and is washed, it can be reused, but if the plastic are dirty, the result of recycling is a weak plastic.
The location of this factory is in Luton, England, and was called 2K MANUFACTURING, the result of recycling mixed plastic was called EcoSheet, this kind of plywood cost the same like a normal plywood and can be used in the same things. EcoSheet have more advantages of normal plywood, it’s more treatable and the principal difference is that can be recycled again, independently if is painted or that kind of things.
Two mans open this factory, Omer Kutluoglu and TUrul Taskent. The process of production received the name of powder-impression moulding. The production have different mechanic process, before to finish a machine inject air to create a “spongly-looking” core. The final step is give the form of the plywood.
The capability of production is 360 thousand sheets. The expectative is to expand the production line and open a new factory in England, the idea for that is to recycled the more quantity of plastic garbage to reduce the contamination.

Unknown said...

Ángeles Cantú

I think, the most important point of A new factory can turn almost any plastic into a useful product is, that the factory called 2K Manufacturing which is in England, it´s the only company in the world that can became the plastic trash in a board called EcoSheet, a substitute for plywood.

A construction company tested this board, and some people were used it for advertising hoardings and flooring, and they supporting it.

One of the pros of EcoSheet is the price, it´s the same of the plywood and you can use it like real plywood, but at the same time you´re recycling.

Ricardo Flores said...

Pros:
Internet is an easy way to connect with the whole world.
You can find research of many universities so you can get information for your work.
It is also a way to have fun.

Cons:
It can be very addictive.
The mayority of the websites are junk.
It can be used for doing bad things.

Ricardo Flores said...

Nowadays plastic use is very common but that material could be very dangerous for the environment. Although plastics can be recycled, the mayority end in the garbage. There is a big problem that makes recycling difficult: particles of other materials are hard to take away so the recycled plastic is not as good as new plastic.
Ricardo Flores
Nevertheless, a company called 2k Manufacturing transforms plastics into a material they call EcoSheet that can be used to build structures and other things related to construction.
This company is growing helping the environment together.

Ricardo Flores said...

I wanted to write my name at the end... I don't know why is at that place...

Unknown said...

The plastic sausage Machine.

The ecosheet is a new material researched by 2K manufacturing, that is directed by Omer Kutluoglu. The ecosheet have many advantages against their close competitors, for example, the plywood. This last one have some problems, like the residues that this material produces when is process.

In contrast, the ecosheet have the property that it doe'nt leave residues in his recycle process, in additon, the product of the recycle is precisely ecosheet.

Acording with the text, the costs between the ecosheet and the plywood are aproximately the same, therefore, is probably that the ecosheet will be the sustitute of the plywood.

Karla Hernandez Valdez said...

The Plastic Sausage Machine

We all use plastic in our life. It has become an important part for liquids and food to comercialize them. But most of us don't know what uses plastic can have before we throw them to garbage.
2K Manufacturing developed a material called Ecosheet. It has a lot more advantages than plywood and it's cheaper. And the most important is that it can be recycled into another new Ecosheet.
The owners of this company, Omer Kutluoglu and Turul Taskent, expect that people can be more considered with the environment and help it, buying this new product.

Unknown said...

For years the problem of recycling plastic has involved a long process of separation of materials and cleaning them. Plastic bottles, lids, punnets must be classified into their various types. Furthermore, all the stored material must be clean because if it does not follow this procedure the new products obtained by recycling may contain defects.


Today the problem of plastic recycling has been solved thanks to a recycling factory, which has been set up in Luton, England by Omer Turul Kutluoglu and Turul Taskent called 2k manufacturing, which one obtained a compound called Ecosheet of all plastics recycled without clean and falling. EcoSheet costs the same as plywood and like plywood, can be used to build a variety of things. The EcoSheet advantage is that is easier to work with because it does produce splinters and it can be recycled into more EcoSheet even if it is painted and full of nails.

The new factory “2K Manufacturing” has a production capacity of 360,000 sheets of the material a year. That’s way eventually there are expectation to open 10 more plants in Britain, in order to collect and process 5m tonnes of plastic produced annually in Britain.

Karla M. Liñán said...

Summery

Efforts have been made in order to recycle plastic, however tonnes of plastic still end up in ladfills because of the cost of reclycling it.

A factory has been set up in England, by a company called 2K Manufacturing; what this factory does is mix all plastic waste and turn it into a substitute of plywood, which is called Ecosheet.

Ecosheest has more advantages than plywood. The cost is about the same, it can be used to buid same things, it is easier to work whit. Furthermore, Ecosheet is much easier to recyle.

Ecosheet´s broaders hope to open more factories in Britain in so that more plastic wold be recovered or recycled.

Karla M. Liñán said...

Upps... it was summary instead summery.
=S

Juan Villarreal said...

A new plastic sauce machine was invented in order to transform plastic bottles, lids, punnets and another type of plastic products into a new product.
The thing is that this machine has a extensive problem because in order to transform the plastic into plywood the bottles they must be clean and they have to pass by various expensive process but the new factory of manufacturing resolve the problem and it can this mixed plastics into the plywood.
The new factory is placed in Luton, England this new fabric turn plastic into EcoSheets it coast the same as plywood and it can be used to build. The best thing of EcoSheets it’s that it can be recycled again to make more EcoSheets.
The objective of the fabric to build ten more in England and double de amount of Ecosheets so the waste can be used and transported in Britain

Unknown said...

The Plastic Sausage Machine

Through the pass of the years, people have been making their best effort to make the recycle of plastic really work; but this still have not work and we continue seeing thousands of plastic mountains in the street. On the past years a factory discovers a way to turn all the plastic wastes into EcoSheet.
This new factory was settled in England, and set up by Omer Kutluoglu and Turul Taskent. This is a very good way to stop the wastes. Also is a cheaper way to turn all the plastics into EcoSheet, and something good about this is that does not produce any injurious splinters.
This Factory will be capable to make like 360,000 Ecosheets per year, but ther setters are planning to make more lines and to open more factories around England, so this way they can collect and transport the plastic easily. In the actual days, more than 5 m tones of plastic is used per year, but only one fifth of this is really recycled. So with this new factories England is planning to have a great progress. And all this thanks to technology.


Andrea Grimaldo Bovio

Elizabeth Martinez said...

The plastic sausage machine

Everybody uses plastic, but sometimes we don’t know how to use it. Sometimes we don’t separate the trash but we know that we should do it. This is the principal problem for recycle plastic.

For years, recycling plastic has been a problem, because, how I mentioned, we don’t separate de trash, so is a long process separate and clean all of the bottles, lids and punnets.

Nowadays, that problem has been solved, because there is a factory which has been set up in Luton, England called 2K Manufacturing. This factory can mix plastic into a composite board called EcoSheet. EcoSheet cots about the same of plywood and can be use for build a variety things.

The factory’s expectative is to open another ten plants in Britain.

larry.... said...

4A:
1. Audacious C
2. Confidential D
3. Frivolous A
4. Hazardous F
5. Problematic G
6. Prudent B
7. Unethical E

4B:
1.-Confidential
2.-Problematic
3.-Prudent
4.-Unethical
5.-Hazardous
6.-Audacious
7.-Frivolous


5 Internet peaks as most important information source

Pros:
1.- You can access to a lot off information, news, etc.
2.- The comunication between people is to easy.
3.- The distance isn't a problem.

Cons:
1.- Is easy to waste time on it.
2.- Your pesonal information can be see for a lot of people.
3.- The information available on the net sometimes are untrustable


The plastic sausage machine


Today in our life are commun to use plastic but there is a problem with it, recycle it is very difficult and this material really makes damage to the enviroment.

The most important problem is that we don't know how to solve the problem. We don't separete the trash, we droop it in the street, etc and if we add the problem that recycling plastic have we really are in troubles.

Today, the technology gives a solution. There is factory called 2K Manufacturing that created Ecosheet a sustite for plywood. Ecosheet has similars caracteristics than plywood but there's a difference, Ecosheet can be recycled to more Ecosheet. So this can be the answer for some enviromental problems but the real answer is in our actions and culture.


larry......