3. Inquire Statement
Social groups can have different attitudes towards
technology that may be inferred from different types
of texts: cartoons, infographics and internet articles.
4. Global Context
We will explore: Opportunity, risk, consequences
and responsibility of scientific and technical
innovations; Digital life, virtual environments and
the Information Age
5. Questions
Inquiry
Questions
Factual
∙ What are some of the new surprising technological improvements?
∙ What is artificial intelligence?
∙ What is an inference?
∙ What are the steps to make correct inferences from a text?
∙ What are the Amish beliefs?
∙ What are the elements that build the perspective/intention of an author/speaker?
∙ What is Neo-luddism?
Conceptual
∙ How can we learn about social groups’ attitudes towards technology from texts,
images?
∙ What are the positive and negative consequences of the use of digital
technology?
∙ What is the perspective of different social groups/ cultures towards technology?
Debatable
∙ Is it possible to live without digital technology today? Have technological
improvements influenced our lives in a negative or positive way?
∙ Will machines take over the world?
6. Contents
Contents ∙ Vocabulary:
∙ Vocabulary related to health
∙ Vocabulary related to technology
∙ Expressions to draft a cartoon analysis
∙ Adjectives to describe pictures and
situations
∙ Cohesive devices
∙ Basic Video edition terms
∙ Structures
∙ Relative Clauses
∙ Present tenses
∙ Passive voice
∙ Questions in different tenses
∙ Basic punctuation rules
∙ Text types:
∙ Structure of a cartoon analysis
∙ Structure of an interview
∙ Basic video editing techniques
7. Evaluation
Evaluation ∙ A cartoon Analysis
∙ Reading/Listening/Language Quizzes
∙ An interview Project
