Purpose: to think critically about the impact of motorized transport on our lives.
Start with a vocab revision game, focusing on new vocab introduced in this unit.
The teacher brings a packet of biscuits to school and asks:
The students write down the transport steps. They compare with each other. Who can find and justify the greatest number of transport steps?
Technology and transport reading activity. Pre-reading activity - survey the text with the students.
Ask students to read the passage on technology and transport in Technology: A force for change (Naumann, 1992, p. 32) and list the words that they don't know the meaning of. In pairs, they try to guess the meaning of the word. The students use the dictionary to check their guesses.
The students do a 3-Level Guide (Word 36KB) on this passage. More information on three level reading guides.
Purpose: to understand some ways in which technology assists, aids and supports society.
The students fill in the TallyChart (Word 32KB) with information from home.
The teacher tallies the class results and, if needed, demonstrates how to turn these into percentages. The teacher or students then graph the results into a pie graph.
The students make a pie graph of these figures from the 1996 Census:
| Means of transport | Tally as percentage of the number of people who travelled to work using this form of transport in 1996. % |
| Public bus | 3.0 |
| Train | 1.0 |
| Motorcars | 72 |
| Bicycle | 3.0 |
| Motorbike | 2.0 |
| Walk | 6.0 |
| Work at home | 11.0 |
| Other | 2.0 |
Pre-writing activity. Fill in the table from the information on the pie graphs. The students then write a comparison table (Word 31KB) of the national graph and of the class graph.
Purpose: to understand how technology assists, aids and supports society - or not.
Assessment activity: the students create a poster in groups of 3 demonstrating the help or harm that technology brings.
Look at the cartoon in the book Technology: triumph or tragedy? (Maxwell and Patterson, 1982, p. 13) and discuss the questions.
Vocabulary - the students can use a dictionary to find the meanings of these words:
The students fill in a table of the help and harm that technology does. This could be an individual / pair activity, followed by a class brainstorm.
Published on: 09 Jan 2018
