The Technology Issue - Solutions



I Love My Gadgets

A. 1.Go-pro camera    2. smartphones, iphones   3. flatscreen tv    4. usb stick  5. Game console  6. scientific calculator   7.tabet  8. 3D printer   9.GPS  10. headphones  11.home cinema projector   12.sound bar

B. 1.T ( why should we..?) 2.T (every year new desirable devices...)  3.T (they inform, entertain...)  4.F (most of us..)  5.T (it is unthinkable...)


Cellphone, Friend or Foe?

Video segmet- order the scenes

1.A couple waking up in the morning, boyfriend looking at his cellphone.
2.Girl going for a run in the mountains, trying to enjoy the moment while
someone talks loudly on his phone.
3.Girl in a restaurant with friends trying to speak while their friends look at their phones.
4.Girl walking on the beach sees a man proposing to his girlfriend while taking a selfie.
5.Little girl in a park looking at her phone instead of swinging.
6.Girl with a friend who’s pouring a drink and taking a selfie of herself.
7.Man at a theater show using his phone.
8.Girl bowling at an alley while her friends are using their cellphones.
9.Girl at a concert and everybody is recording the show.
10.Girl bringing out the cake at a birthday party while everybody is recording the moment.
11.Girl turns out the light to sleep while her boyfriend is looking at his phone.

Technology in the Kitchen

1.c  2.a  3.b  4.c  5.b  6.a  7.c  8.b  9.b  10.a

Transcript:
Today, gadgets galore. The University of Houston’s College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.

What’s the most gadget filled room in your home? If you’re like most people, it’s probably your kitchen. There are big items like freezers, stoves, dishwashers, microwaves. And then there are all those little things we couldn’t do without — coffee makers, pots, bowl scrapers, cheese graters … the list goes on and on. Just look through your cabinets and drawers.

And to the engineer, it’s a treasure-trove. Almost every item has an elaborate history of design and redesign. Some survive and some pass into obscurity, rendered obsolete by new technology.

I recently found myself thumbing through From Hearth to Cookstove: … Gadgets and Utensils Made or Used in America from 1700 to 1930. The book doesn’t pretend to be all-encompassing. No surprise. A complete history would require volumes. But it does contain some gems.

Take, for example, the ale boot — a metal pot shaped like a boot. It’s easily thrust deep into the coals of a fire, warming your beer on cold winter nights. We find an assortment of devices for keeping flies away from food — a real concern before window screens and air conditioning. One such device is the fly fan. Wind it up and a woman’s hand-held fan waves back and forth — a mechanical means for saying “shoo, fly, shoo!” Before the toaster was the toast fork. The many innovative designs were used to hold bread over the fire, much as we use sticks to roast our marshmallows today.

The contraptions for peeling apples are a delight. Gears, blades, springs — many are quite elaborate. By 1874, over eighty patents had been filed for cast iron apple parers. Was it really that important a utensil?

The collection of tools for mashing potatoes goes on for pages. Then there are the egg beaters. Some look like springs; others like failed fly swatters. Variations of the dual interlocking mixer are popular. All totaled, I counted fifty-one different designs in the book — all hand-powered. That’s not true of butter churns. Some of them incorporate treadmills so they can be run on dog power.

And women were behind many of the improvements. According to an article in the New York Times, by 1890 women had filed 2400 patents — an astounding number given role of women in that era. Most were filed by “thrifty housewives … generally in the nature of kitchen utensils and domestic articles.” Women didn’t simply inspire changes; they engineered them.

We take our kitchen gadgetry for granted. We chop with a Cuisinart, mix with a blender, and slice bagels with specially designed bagel cutters. But our kitchens are filled with history and innovation. It’s something to think about next time you’re preparing a meal.


Fiction & Science

1.His book  2.Albert Einstein and Flash Gordon  3.blink/ you'll see their biographies printed out/ subtitles will appear under their names   4.Time travel
5.your great great great great grand daughter


Crosswords
Across :  1.dishwasher  2.GPS  3.tablet  4.calculator  10.watch  11.modem  12.toaster  15. webcam  17.mixer  18.headphones  19.electric razor  20. flashlight  21. game console

Down:  1digital photo frame 5.USB stick 6.Remote control 7.flatscreen 8.camera 9.scale 13.blowdryer 14.Dvd player 16.microwave 19.ebook

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