CHANGE: INVENTIONS This week you will: ● Discuss inventions and how they have changed our lives ● Talk about the past and present using past and perfect tenses ● Choose one specific invention and write an assignment on how it has changed life for better or worse. (Using the grammar we have practiced so far this year) Theme Questions: How has technology improved our quality of life? What have been negative results of inventions and technology? Class #1 Inventions that changed the world Discussion: A) What do you think are the most important inventions that have ever been made? Brainstorm as a class and share ideas in the box below B) From the Brainstorm, rank your Top 5 For your Number 1, think of reasons why it’s the most important Important Inventions Watch: Watch this video about the Top 10 Most Important Inventions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwPw2VchQGQ&ab_channel=MostAmazingTop10 ● Which inventions were the same as your list? Which were different? ● Was their ranking similar? ● Do you disagree with any of her choices? Read: Vocabulary: Practice: Periodic table patent device Designe r elemen ts invetion Class #2 Early Inventions Individual Reading and Answers Today you will ● Read about ‘Early Inventions’ ● Answer questions in complete answers 1. Alva fisher 2. Similar elements appeared at regulars intervals or periods 3. The year they started selling. 4. He wanted to link U.S.A with British by a cable. 5. Because they wanted us to know 6. Yes because he publish accord de time 7. For me is the vacuum cleaner for the hygeyne Class#3 Grammar: Past and Perfect Tenses Part 2 In this class you will - Provide your answers to the reading from yesterday Review the grammar from last week with a Kahoot Read a story and discuss answers Individually complete grammar exercises Review: Grammar Last Week- Kahoot/ Ask questions Answer these questions. Give reasons using expressions from the story. 1. Why was the ethics test an important one? Because the teacher said it will count towards our final test 2. What was Lorena’s experience with her ethics class? She learned that she has to know the names of the people she see daily for ethics 3. What problem did she have with the test She didn’t know the name of a person that she see every day 4. Why was she concerned that she would get penalized Because a classmate asked about if he fails in a question she will get penalize in her career 5. What do you think the professor told her? His name D D B B Moved Lost I Had not had Was thought Not wanted got Not contacted Class#4 Introduction to the Assignment In this class you will ● ● ● ● Answer the classwork from yesterday Watch a video about the cotton gin wheel Read the instructions for the assignment and an example answer Have time to start planning your answer #1- Return to the pages from yesterday to answer questions #2- Kahoots: Play 1 or 2, time permitting https://create.kahoot.it/details/present-perfect-present-perfect-progressive-simple-past/06ded984-1806-43e9-97e4-c3f9bca b7253 https://create.kahoot.it/details/present-perfect-present-perfect-progressive-simple-past/47291579-ce5c-496a-ac98-deb01f9 e3968 Discussion: Have inventions all been positive? Take a few minutes and think of some inventions, technology or discoveries that have had negative impacts. Then share your thoughts with the class. Inventions with negative effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SMNYivhGsc Watch: Then discuss these questions: - What did people do before the cotton gin? - How did the cottin gin make the work faster? - If it made the work faster, why didn’t it reduce the amount of work slaves had to do? Assignment: Due Date: Monday 14 September. Submit on Google Class and Read in Microsoft Teams Class Length: 100-150 words Choose one invention/ discovery that has changed the world positively and/or negatively Show how the world was before it was invented, how it changed the world when it was invented and how it has changed today. (It’s similar to the other homework, but focused on Past and Present, not the future.) Use the grammar we practiced over the last two weeks Here is an example answer to get you started The Printing Press The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1430’s. Before printing had been invented, books were a rare and expensive thing to posses, owning to the fact that books needed to have been written by hand: a tedious process. Writing a bible for instance required at least 15 months of full time writing (More than 12 hours a day). Literacy had been growing in Europe- particularly among the middle class and raised the demand for books which, until that point in time, had been a privelige only the elite could afford, due to the nature of handwritten books. As a result of printing, books became far quicker easier to manufacture, which meant that information was more accessible.This allowed regular citizens to have access to the printed word, discuss ideas and spread literacy. Multiple copies of the same text could be manufactured permitting people to read the same text at the same time and discuss it. This was the first time information had ever been relatively unrestricted in Europe. Any literate person could access revolutionary ideas and contirbute their own thoughts on the matter to the community. This paved the way for the renaissance and scientific revolution, allowing great thinkers to share their ideas and philosophies on a large scale Printing refined over the centuries as materials and the method became faster and cheaper resulting in an aware and involved mass public. As technology has continued to develop, and the internet, printing has become less relevant to sharing mass information. However, the Gutenberg printing press was the catalyst that started it all. Class#5 You have this class to work on your assignments.
