Technology

Technology vocabulary in context. Exam practice.

TECHNOLOGY IN THE NEWS

The BBC News website has a section for TECH with all sorts of news about technology, including videos. What are you waiting for? Check it out!!! Click here.

"HER" THE MOVIE: A BOY-MEETS-OPERATING-SYSTEM ROMANCE

This is the activity we have done in class about technology and relationships. It's based on two scenes from the movie "Her". Click here to download the activity sheet.

SCHADENFACEBOOK: A PODCAST

Listen to this podcast from National Public Radio on the following issue:

Millions of people around the world use social media every day to stay in touch with friends and family. But ironically, studies have shown that people who spend more time on these sites feel more socially isolated than those who don't. This week on Hidden Brain, we explore the psychological effects that social media has on us, and how FOMO — or, the fear of missing out — can lead to actually missing out.

LAW & CRIME + THE MEDIA

StudentNewsDaily.com 

Check out this website that can help you improve your reading skill. This is what they say about themselves:

StudentNewsDaily.com is a non-profit current events website for high school students. Our goal is to build students’ knowledge of current events and strengthen their critical thinking skills. This is done by providing comprehension and critical thinking questions along with published news articles and other current events items from various news organizations.

You can start by reading and listening to the news story from October 2016 about hackers. Click here.

Also check the guidelines to write a letter to the editor. 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Here you have the questions Sarah answered on the new topic of "Science ansd Technology". 
Can you also answer them?

THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON OUR WORK AND FAMILY LIFE

This article from The Huffington Post is an excellent source of ideas as well as vocabulary to talk or write about the topic "The impact of technology on our work and family life". 

By the way, if you are not familiar with The Huffington Post (or HuffPost), it is an American online news aggregator and blog which offers news, satire, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news.

Click on the article title to read it.

INTERNET PRIVACY

A report on Internet privacy from the BBC Learning English website, in the section Words in the News.

For the first time people living within the European Union will have what's being called "the right to be forgotten". Under changes announced by the European Commission, people will be able to tell a company to remove all the online data they have about them.

Click here.

BILL GATES'S HOUSE

Perfectly combining two topics: houses and the world of computers + technology. 

Before watching the video, do this matching exercise that will help you understand the vocab better.

ARTICLE: ARE SPANIARDS STILL PIRATES?

Read this recent article (2017) from El Pais in English about Internet piracy in Spain. Do you think illegal downloading in this country has fallen in the past years? Check it out. Click here.

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VIDEO: iPad Goes on Sale in America

Watch this video about the new Apple's gadget and learn more about the topic TECHNOLOGY. Watch it first and try to understand; then watch it a second time and read the transcript.



TRANSCRIPT: The sun had barely risen, but the line outside of the Apple store