Here you have some questions/ideas regarding technology that may help you begin the mini project:

- What's technology?

- Technology 50 years ago vs. Technology today

- Is technology a blessing or a curse? (opinions, facts, statistics)

- How does technology affect people?

- Effect of new technologies in nature

- Is technology nowadays ruled by commercial protocols?

- How have you changed due to technology?

- Is technology changing lifestyles? why? how?

- Advantages and disadvantages

First mini project: Technology: A blessing or a curse?

Read the poem The Paradox of our times, by Jeff Dickson.

Then, solve the following tasks:

-Think about it, what it refers to and compose a short paragraph on what you the poem is about.
-Look for at least 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of living today with all the technology we have
-Look for at least 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of living 50 years ago with no advanced technology
-Get ready for your first "formal" oral presentation; you are going to present a topic related to technology, anyone you choose. Use any visual aids to help you present the topic.
Practice it, and avoid reading during the presentation.

***Suggestion: record yourself presenting to check pronunciation, grammar, etc.

Here is a new task to solve!!!

Find a short reading or paragraph you like or have read before

Look for any recording software

Record yourself reading the paragraph/short story, it does not matter if you have to do it many times, but do NOT delete any of the files, keep them to check improvement and self-evaluation

I suggest you to use AUDACITY, it is pretty simple to use

Watch the following video and post a short narration of the events in the video

Instructions:

Watch the video and create a short narration of what happened in the video and post it, use transition words, adjectives, and use the verb tenses properly

Instructions:
Watch the video carefully, as many times as required

Create a short narration of what happened in the video and post it, remember to use transition words like: First, second, third, then, Afterwards, later on, finally, etc.

Narrative skills

One of the most common writing technique is the narration, like in short stories or novels. Take a look at the principles:

Narrative techniques

Scenic and Panoramic

Learn through readings

Now take a look at the language in real usage

Short stories

Reading test

Verb tenses

Here is a review of the verb tenses

Verb tenses

VOCABULARY!!!!!!!!!!!

Along with learning grammar aspects of the language, we always need to keep learning vocabulary, take a look at the following links:

Lists of common words

Prepositions

Practical vocabulary

Synonyms and antonyms

Adjectives!

If we want to improve our descriptions, specially about people, we need to learn many adjectives, check this link:


Adjectives - Personality

Regular and Irregular verbs

Take a look at the following websites about verbs:


Regular verbs

Irregular verbs

Let's review PHONETICS

Long vowel sounds

Short vowel sounds

All the alphabet

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