Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The positive and negative impact of new technology on my life


New technologies are very present in our diary lives. We use them many times in a day, so we really need these gadgets to do a lot of different things . But what are their impact on people's lives?


On the one hand, they're very useful in a lot of situations. For example, we can hear MP3's in the underground or in the bus when we're bored. Indeed, we can take them everywhere because they are not very big and we can keep them in the pocket. Moreover, new computers have permitted the development of programs which are used in lots of experiments. In fact, these experiments are important for the creation of new medicines which could save a lot of people. In addition, new computers help people to do work quickly. We can also use computers to buy things at home by the internet.


On the other hand, new technologies have many negative effects. Firstly, new technologies can destroy a few jobs because now companies prefer to use computers instead of human work. In some cases, new computers are more productive than people. Secondly, young people could become addict to new video-games (Play Station, Wii, XBox...) and pass everyday playing instead of going out to the park with other boys.


In conclusion, new technologies are very important for everyone because they have a lot of positive effects on human advance. However, there are still some negative effects but on the whole they are less important than positive effects.

Game time for fast finishers

Those of you who have finished the assessed writing task have won some bonus time for yourself. Try out these games and resources:
  • A word game where, if you win, you donate rice to the United Nations World Food program
  • A very addictive and crazy, impossible quiz. It takes time to load but it's worth it.
  • On the BC Learn English site, choose Spelloween a fun game that will improve your spelling
Write a comment on this post saying which you enjoyed the most and why.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

The positive and negative impact of new technology on my life

Nowadays the new technology is growing extremelly fast and the influence that have in our lives is getting bigger and bigger. Most of the times we use the technology because this has some positive things although sometimes not.

On the one hand, the new technology help us in our everydays life. It´s useful and fast. For example, 20 years ago some people only had a computer in their hauses; now, in comparison, all the people have at least one commputer (in some cases 2 or3). This is the clearest example in the growth of the technology.

On the other hand, there are some negative points. Firstly, Internet, Chats and Messenger although there are a way of communication in some cases you don´t really know who are you talking with. Secondly, it´s a place where someones can steal your money. You have to be very careful and "click on" in the right place. If you don´t you will have a problem. Thirdly, if you connet all the times to this new technology you can have health problems. Your eyes won´t be grateful.

To sump up, the technology can help us to have a better life improving our communications and society life. However if we abuse to it we will became addicted to this technology. Take care, it´s an advice.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Technology



Technology is wherever you look and our question is how people lived without it . The answer could be that they didn´t know nothing about it.

But nowadays can we stay a day separate from technology? The fact that the answer is no for everybody is one of the problems it cause, we feel the need of technology in our lifes.

Staying a lot of time watching TV for example, can make us having headache and problems in the sight. Besides, for some people can became an addiction.

On the other hand, what about good facts? The technology is the responsible of many human advances. If we talk about medicine, it saves lives everyday.
Moreover, it help us doing tasks much easier and having fun, between other things.

So, you know, put technology in your live.

The positive and negative impact of technology in my life.


Unlike a few years ago it can be said that our life is based on the technology. I am surprised when I see a child of 8 0 9 years with a mobile phone. When I was 9 I had no mobile phone, and if I asked my parents, they told me to stop dreaming, that I did not need one. But nowadays all children I see on the street has one and I give an account of how increasingly technology influences our lives. But is the technology as positive as we believe?

On the one hand I think the technology is positive because it is a new way to take advantage of our free time. I also believe that technology makes us work with less effort and also helps us to improve the performance of our work. In fact, thanks to technology, we have made progress in areas such as health, production, information, communication, which makes life much easier. Although I believe that above all mentioned earlier, the most positive feature of the tecnology is how in such a small period of time we have achieved what has not been able to secure in millions of years.

On the other hand technology is a complex matter that not everyone could understand. There is a great difficulty in adapting to technology by society. For our generation, technology is something that is part of our lives since we were a child, yet for our parents is something new to what they should get used to.
To sum up I believe that the technology is still in a process of development, but one thing is clear, that technology will continue to be the base of our lives in the future.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The positive and negative impact of technology in my life





Nowadays, our lives are completely directed and influenced by technology which has changed people´s lifestyles. We can see it everyday in the streets where it´s almost impossible to find someone without a mobile phone. The truth is that we need technology for everything because we are used to living with the advantages that technology offers and for example,it´s not easy to go a day without the television or the computer. Because of this, I think that this would be a negative point (it´s no good to depend from a machine, at least not as I do). However, this kind of technology (I mean, computer, television, robots...) is practically new as it started its development in last century.

On the one hand, technology lets me do other things and avoid wasting my time. Besides, it is really important to the progress in medicine where technology has promoted different research of diseases like cancer or AIDS. Likewise, it also have helped to develop other techniques like lasers which have helped a less invasive medicine or robots which operate more accurately.

On the other hand, it´s important to say that although technologies help societies to advance, in the same way they increase the differences between countries and even between classes. In addition, sometimes it can be the reason of a clash because of the power that it implies (no country wants to depend on another one). Bearing this in mind, we should consider technology a help only for a minority and this is no just because technology should be for all human beings. Technology can be used in a bad way too, I mean, in wars also it is used but only to invent other ways to destroy more and more, including people (new weapons, atomic bombs like in the case of USA or Iran, ...). In fact, technology in itself isn´t good or bad, its use is the thing that makes it bad or good. Another drawback is that things go out of fashion really fast and we must renew everything all time and this continuous exchange affects nature as it´s very complicated to recycle this kind of object so it makes pollution grow.

As a conclusion I think that technology has made things a lot easier but, at the same time it also makes people a bit lazy. Then, I wonder, does technology progress too fast or not, and what kind of future should we expect for?

Work on your pronunciation

It's a good idea to work on your pronunciation whenever you have time. Here are some resources that can help you:
  • the Sky Pronunciation suite which is installed on BC computers both in the CALL Room and the SAC (library)
  • a phonetics site where you can see and hear how the different vowel and consonant sounds are produced (click on American English)
  • mouseovermusic.com where you can move your mouse over the lyrics and hear a song
  • shiporsheep.com where you can practise minimal pairs (similar words where just the vowel sound is different)
  • stress monsters a game where you can test your knowledge of which syllable is stressed in a word

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The positive and negative impact of new technology on my life

You are going to write a posting about the positive and negative impact of new technology on your life.

This will be an asessed piece of writing so try to make it as interesting as possible and ensure that it reflects your experience and views.

You can include photos, videos and web links as you see fit.

If you want to read or watch material on the subject before you start writing, here are some possibilities: the BBC's technology news and the BBC TV programme, Click.