Communication, Science, and Technology
Listening Activity:
Technology Addiction:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Computers_and_technology/Technology_-_listening_ki3042017ho
Listen, watch the videos and answer the questions:
1. A city in Spain uses technology to make life easier for its citizens and visitors. It is an example of a "smart city" that other cities are interested in trying.
https://www.eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=27681
2. Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon
https://www.eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=31087
3. Dogs cloning
https://www.eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=26458
Grammar Exercise:
Future with Will
Check the following explanation:
https://www.grammar.cl/Notes/Future_Will.htm
https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Future_tenses/Future_with_will_lk4389jo
Chose one of the TED lessons of the following site an do the exercises:
https://ed.ted.com/search?qs=science+and+technology
Watch, Think, Dig Deeper, Discuss
Explanatory Texts
The Death of bees explained
https://ed.ted.com/best_of_web/dnJLG0DA#watch
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Reading Workshop: Technological and Scientific Advances
Choose an article in English and do the following analysis of the text:
1. Analysis of Context, Purpose and Audience of Texts
To recognize the context of a text you should ask questions such as:
Who wrote the text?
When was the text written?
Where was the text written?
Where was the text published?
2. Analysis of Paragraphs:
- Underline or highlight the main idea of each paragraph with one color.
- Underline or highlight the secondary supporting ideas with another color.
- Write the topic of each paragraph in the margins of the text. Remember that the topic of a paragraph is expressed in keywords or concepts.
3. Analysis of word and grammatical choices
Each text uses a range of verb tenses, word choices, or grammatical structures that correspond to its genre and purpose of it. In this activity, you should analyze the main verb tenses. Write one or two examples for each one of the verb tenses: simple present, simple past, simple future,
Look for adjectives used in the text, highlight them, and write three segments
4. Analysis of connectors or linking words or transition words
Select 10 sentences from the text that include linking words or connectors. Specify what kind of connector is. Recognizing connectors or linking words will help you analyze the logical relations existing among themes or ideas in the text.
5. Graphic Organizers:
Organize, classify, and summarize the information of the text using an appropriate graphic organizer. Remember that the purpose of a graphic organizer is to represent graphically the main themes or ideas of a text and the logical relations existing among them.
You can use the following graphic organizers according to the text you chose: diagrams.net
4. Analysis of terminology and parts of speech:
Build a glossary with 15 terms or words from the text. Write the definition of the word in English and the part of speech of it. You can use a monolingual dictionary to define the words:
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Reading comprehension Workshops:
Explorer in the Field: Electrical engineer Robert Wood is an expert in robots that fly, robots you wear, squishy robots, and tiny robots the size of a nickel. Watch as the team invents and develops entirely new classes of microrobots and robots made of soft materials that may one day play a transformative role in medicine, search-and-rescue missions, and agriculture.
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