Unit 10: No technology? No way!

Vocabulary

Retaliatory: vengativo

Jolted: sacudido

Shattered: destrozar

Wail: llorar

Siren: sirena

Towed: remolcado

Banned:  prohibir

Echoes: eco/ repeticion

Startled: sobresaltado

Annoyed: molesto

Persuaded: persuadido

Reminded: recordado

Prompted: incitado

Frazzled:  agotar

Awful: horrible

Faint: debil

Shrill: estridente

Honking: tocar la bocia

Hand it in: Llévelo

Go off: salir

Grammar

Future perfect

The future perfect is used to talk about a future action that will already have been completed by a certain time in the future. The future perfect is used with the simple present tense to show the relationship between two futures events

The event that will take place first uses the future perfect. The event that will take place second uses the simple present tense

Ex: By the time I figure out how to use the remote, the news will already have started

To form the future perfect, active voice:  Use will + have + past participle

Ex: By tomorrow evening, I will have sent about 20 messages

To from the future perfect passive voice: Use will+ have been + past participle

Ex:  By the end of the week, 50 email messages will have been sent

Future progressive

The future progressive is used to describe action that will be in progress at a specific time in the future

Ex: If the trend continues, and cell phones become more and more popular, people will be spending most of their waking hours on the phone

Opinion

I cannot imagine a world without technology; I couldn’t imagine what I would be doing now. Technology has been a benefit for our society in some points of view, for example, it brings us a better life condition, we save more time, as a student’s we can find a lot of information only with a click etc. However, technology has been a disadvantage for the society in another point of view, for example in the pollution of our planet. So many things made of plastic and other materials are destroying our home, out planet. Another important thing is the sonic pollution due to machines like cars, planes, radio etc.

If someone ask me how I prefer my world, I will said that I prefer world and life without technology, all my life I have dreamed with a world with no cars, a lot of nature, everything clean and clear, but What can we do? This is the world we have created and this is the world we have devastated because of technology.