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English Level Four Lab Practice: Technologies: What'S This For?

The document provides instructions for a lab practice activity on technologies for students. It includes: 1) Questions for students to answer about how the internet makes life easier/more difficult and how it affects free time. 2) Definitions for students to look up for various tech-related words. 3) A video for students to watch and answer comprehension questions about. 4) A link to another video about technologies predicted in Star Trek for students to watch and describe examples using prepositions "for" and "to". 5) A final video about new inventions and gadgets for students to watch to learn cultural information and vocabulary.

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English Level Four Lab Practice: Technologies: What'S This For?

The document provides instructions for a lab practice activity on technologies for students. It includes: 1) Questions for students to answer about how the internet makes life easier/more difficult and how it affects free time. 2) Definitions for students to look up for various tech-related words. 3) A video for students to watch and answer comprehension questions about. 4) A link to another video about technologies predicted in Star Trek for students to watch and describe examples using prepositions "for" and "to". 5) A final video about new inventions and gadgets for students to watch to learn cultural information and vocabulary.

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ENGLISH LEVEL FOUR

LAB PRACTICE: TECHNOLOGIES:

WHAT’S THIS FOR?


Dear student:

Develop these activities on your own. Use the dictionary you have in the lab folder.

1. Answer the following questions:

a. How does internet make your life easier? More difficult?


b. How does internet affect the way you spend your free time?
c. Do you think people can learn from internet?

2. Do you know what these words mean? If you don’t know, find them in a dictionary:

Hacker Technophile Geek Computer whiz Pole

3. Watch the video (you can find it in this folder, it’s titled “Are we there yet?”) and answer these
questions using complete and clear sentences. Mind your grammar and spelling, please:

The pole dance full episode:

a. Why are the two children fighting?


b. What does Nick (the father), tell the children they have to do?
c. What does Suzanne (the mother) tell her daughter she ´d better do?
d. According to Nick, What should the boy do if her sister is in the bathroom?
e. Has Suzanne tried to pole dance before?
f. How did Suzanne finally learn to pole dance?
g. What can she get if she pole dances for her husband?
h. Do you think it is possible to learn pole dancing through internet with the same success Suzanne did? Explain.
i. How would you classify Suzanne: as a computer geek, as a technophile or as a hacker? Explain your answer.
j. According to this video, what’s internet for*?

4. Test your knowledge!!!!

Grammar practice: http://www.autoenglish.org/prepositions/ForandToExercise.htm


http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/349.html

*Look at the rule! Using to or For:


I use a computer to study or
I use a computer for studying
Both forms are correct! Just pay attention whether you are using to +
infinitive or for+ ing verb form

5. Watch the video “Real Life Technology Predicted by Star Trek” in the following link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKH0Ipcc87E.
After watching the video, select six gadgets and explain what they are used for. Please write three
examples using for and three more using to.

6. Fast learners: Here you can watch a short video about the Coolest Technology New Inventions and
Gadgets 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOYIHO-2Y4A

Well, this is it. Hope you have gotten some cultural information and have learned through context
some specific vocabulary we are going to use in class.
Love, <3
Dalia Lorena Santacruz Salazar
Academic Coordinator.

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