Technology

After watching the video, write the differences you could identify.

Aspect Before Now

Transportation Cars were made by men. Cars are made by machines.
There is a lot of traffic.

Entertainment People use tablets and play with

People went to circus and had videogames.
more interaction their
environment.

Agriculture People use trucks as transport and

People used to use horses as the machines do all the work.
transport and people did
everything by hand.

Communication People use mobile phones and we

can communicate through social
People chatted through cordless networks.
phones

Life in general Now everything is modern

People were more connected to
their environment.

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adjectives: comparative and superlative

1. Complete the chart with the comparatives and superlatives:

Adjective Comparative Superlative

long longer than the longest
fast faster than the fastest
pretty prettier than the prettiest
beautiful more beautiful than most beautiful
ugly uglier than the ugliest
thin thinner than the thinnest
the most
fashionable more fashionable than fashionable

2. Write the comparative:

a. old older
b. strong stronger
c. happy happier
d. modern more modern
e. important more important
f. good better
g. large larger
h. serious more serious
i. pretty prettier
j. bad worse

Complete the sentences with a superlative:

a. This building is very old. It’s the oldest building in the town.

b. It was a very happy day. It was the happiest day of my life.

c. It’s a very good film. It’s the best film I’ve seen.
d. It was a very bad mistake. It was the worst mistake in my life.
e. It was a very cold day. It was the coldest day of the year.
f. She’s a popular singer. She’s the most popular singer in the country.
g. He’s a very boring person. He’s the most boring I know.
 h. This house is very big. It is the biggest house I’ve lived in.
i. My cousin is very tall. He is the tallest I have.
j. Laura is a very pretty girl. She is the prettiest I know.

4. Choose the correct answer:

a. Tom’s car is as big as / the biggest his friend’s.

b. Who is shorter than / the shortest person in your family?

c. Who is more independent than / the most independent person you know?

d. These sofas are more comfortable than / the most comfortable ours.

e. My brother is taller than / the tallest in the class.

f. Is Jason’s dog older than / the oldest yours?

g. Who is the best / better than singer in the world?

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h. We are younger than / the youngest the rest of the class.

i. My hair is the straightest / straighter than your hair.

j. He is more popular / the most popular singer in the world.

5. Write the sentences in the correct order:

a. taller / than / Gary / Rick / is

Gary is taller than Rick.
b. trousers / John / got / has / new / light.

John has got new light trousers

c. Mary / clothes / likes / bigger

Mary likes bigger clothes

d. an / expensive / Rick / wearing / coat / is

Rick is wearing an coat expensive

e. the / Carol / has / scarf / got / shortest

Carol has got the shortest scarf

f. the / student / he / tallest / is

He is the tallest student

g. actress / Mary / the / was / popular / most

Mary was the most popular actress

h. He / the / was / footballer / best

He was the best footballer

i. plays / than / better / you / Mary

Mary plays better than you

 j. father / is / your / than / stronger / mine

Your father is stronger than mine

6. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the adjective in brackets:

a. Carol is as good (good) as you at sport.

b. We like wearing the latest (late) fashion.
c. These trousers are more comfortable (comfortable)than those jeans.
d. She is happier (happy) now than he was last year.
e. You are the prettiest (pretty) girl in class.
f. My grandma is older (old)than my grandpa.
g. The red dress is the most attractive (attractive)in the shop.
h. I always tell the most fun (fun)jokes.
i. Your hair is curlier (curly)than my hair.
j. My hair is shorter (short)than yours.

3º E.S.O. Taken from:

http://www.istitutobartolo.it/clil/2015/antoninomagliocco/comparativesandsuperlatives.pdf
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Present perfect (for, already, yet, just and since)
Write the names in the boxes of the technology items; you can find them on the puzzle.

Television Mobile phone

Headphones

Computer horn

Scanner

Alarm clock Mouse

 GPS

Sunglasses

computer

Laptop

Keypad

Printer
 Mp3 player

Calculator

Tablet

DVD player

USB pen

Remote control
 Camera

Technology items

P Z R M T C H P E Z A G L T R

O S E O K Q A S C L F O G E F

T P T T O E U L A K R E N L J

P R U P E O Y R C T A N G E J

A I P R M L M B N U N G O V N

L N M D E C B O O A L U K I U

Z T O S L Y C A C A S A Z S R

V E C O Q E A S T B R X T I W

T R C A T X U L P M J D C O P

A K M O B I L E P H O N E N R

C C M G P S N B K D B H R H I

F E S P E A K E R S V I O G L

R A R E M A C S F Y Q D O N R

S R J V K L Y X A L Q V K Q B

S K S E N O H P D A E H H S J

ALARMCLOCK CALCULATOR CAMERA

COMPUTER DVDPLAYER GPS
HEADPHONES KEYBOARD LAPTOP
MOBILEPHONE MOUSE PRINTER
REMOTECONTROL SCANNNER SPEAKERS
TABLET TELEVISION USBPEN

Pictures taken from:

https://pixabay.com/es/photos/computer/

http://www.clipshrine.com/Smart-phone-1925-medium.html

http://www.clker.com/clipart-untitled.html

https://clipartion.com/free-clipart-camera-clip-art/

https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/open-dvd-player.html

http://www.clipartkid.com/ipod-wheel-cliparts/

http://pngimg.com/img/electronics/calculator

http://www.clipartpanda.com/categories/television-clipart

http://www.mastermagazine.info/termino/6618.php

http://www.clipartpanda.com/categories/sneaker-clip-art-free-printables

http://www.clipartpanda.com/clipart_images/inkjet-printer-clip-art-23596624

https://clipartfest.com/categories/view/Y2xpcGFydCBrZXlib2FyZA0K/clipart-keyboard.html

http://www.123rf.com/clipart-vector/gps_screen.html

http://clipartoons.com/best-clipart-image-9500/

http://www.istockphoto.com/mx/ilustraciones/alarm-clock?excludenudity=true&sort=best&mediatype=illustration&phrase=alarm%20clock

http://www.clipartpanda.com/categories/tv-remote-control

http://pngimg.com/img/objects/glasses

http://www.clipartpanda.com/categories/headphones-clip-art-free

http://worldartsme.com/samsung-tablet-clipart.html#gal_post_67601_samsung-tablet-clipart-1.jpg

http://www.clipartpanda.com/categories/laptop-clipart-pictures
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Century XV (1401 – 1500)

1st Mobile phone (1993)
It was a form of communicate. 1st Computer (1947) Company IBM created the
union of a phone and a
computer.

Evolution of technology

Morse code (1843)

Google (2000)
It sent messange but as
We’ve used until nowdays.
point, stripe and spacious.
Internet (1969) It is a seeker.
It was 1st way in find
information very fast.
Nowadays. We’ve used find
information and
communicate.
 GPS (2007)

GPS is incorporated in mobile

Ipad (2009)
phone. It’ve helped to find
places. Apple invented the 1st ipad.

Iphone 3g (2008)

Apple invented the 2nd

iphone.
Referencias

Mariitaher. (09 de noviembre de 2010). slideshare. Obtenido de https://es.slideshare.net/Mariitaher/linea-de-tiempo-tecnologias

montes, i. (29 de abril de 2015). prezi.com. Obtenido de https://prezi.com/1r_0fhohzdfb/linea-de-tiempo-de-la-evolucion-de-la-tecnologia/