Technology

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Noun sets
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Discussion questions

 * What are the best and the most useful inventions of the mankind in the 20th and 21st centuries?
 * What famous inventors do you know?
 * What were their inventions?
 * Do you know anything about the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci?
 * How did the invention of television change people's life?
 * Do you think it is a useful invention?
 * What is the role of television in your life?
 * How often do you watch it?
 * When did you buy or get your first mobile phone?
 * Do you think you can live without your mobile or is it now an important part of your daily life?
 * Are you anxious when the battery is flat or you are out of reach?
 * What do scientists say about the influence of mobile phones on our health?
 * Do you use the Internet?
 * What Internet services do you use?
 * Do you feel any addiction to the Internet?
 * How much do you spend on the Internet a month?
 * How did the Internet influence such things as communication, correspondence, access to information?
 * Do you think that the Internet is the good or the evil?
 * What do you think is the worst invention of the mankind? (weapon, atomic energy, cigarettes, television, mobile phones, cars, genetically modified products etc)
 * Can you name some inventions are you looking forward to? (human cloning, time traveling, eternal-life-pill, AIDS\cancer vaccine, teleportation)
 * What do you know about cloning?
 * Who invented it?
 * How does it work?
 * Who is Dolly (sheep)?
 * What is your attitude to human cloning?
 * Do you think it should be prohibited?
 * What is good and bad about human cloning?
 * Do you think time machine will ever be invented?
 * Would you like to do some time traveling?
 * What time would you like to visit, what event would you like to witness?
 * Do you think aging is the problem the mankind can not fight?
 * What discoveries and inventions has been made recently to fight aging?
 * Do you believe that the elixir of life will ever be discovered?
 * Would you like to be immortal or would you just prefer to remain young throughout your life and die in the end?
 * What is the use of space exploration?
 * What technologies has space exploration brought to our daily life?
 * Do you believe that one day people will live on the moon and on other planets?
 * Why isn't it possible today?
 * What would you invent if your a scientist?

Lesson themes

 * Robots
 * 20th century inventions
 * Chindogu

Activities

 * The Mars Rover has become sentient. Hold a meeting at NASA to decide how to get it back. There are competing solutions at the meeting. A silly object can be given to each group that must be part of the solution (like a squeaky chicken). Use language for discussing solutions.

Images
Strange old inventions