TECHNOLOGY
TEACHING UNITS
THE EVOLUTION
OF TECHNOLOGY
The aim of these lesson plans is to explore inventions and analyze how they have changed through the years.
SESSION 1
Describe the evolution of technological objects using a variety of adjectives to describe their features, and compare past and present with comparative sentences.
SESSION 2
Analyze the importance of describing the necessities in order to create useful objects that help us in our daily activities.
SESSION 3
Learn about some of the most influential inventors in the 20th century.
PROPERTIES OF
MATERIALS
The aim of these lessons is to learn about materials and their properties, practice the reading comprehension, describe the basic materials and write correctly some specific words related to all this technical content.
SESSION 1
Introduce basic content and vocabulary related to the properties of materials.
SESSION 2
Learn to write sentences for describing objects or materials using conditional structures and specific vocabulary.
SESSION 3
Reading comprehension related to materials and teacher-student assessment and self-assessment.
THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY
Task 1: Pairs of objects
Task 2: Memory game
Task 7: Jigsaw reading
PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
Task 1: Computer games
Task 2: Powtoon video
Task 4: Writing
Task 5: Reading comprehension
