02 Future technology

Pupil's Book, Unit 2 page 17 1 Listen, point and say the numbers. This is my laptop. I use it to do my homework, talk to my friends around the world and listen to music. My laptop's screen is small. It's OK, but sometimes when I watch videos on the computer with my friends, we can't all see it. On the screen now, you can see a computer program that I'm writing . . . If you run the program, the computer says, ‘Hello world’! There are lots of kinds of hardware on my desk. There's the laptop and the screen, and the keyboard and printer too. This is my keyboard. I use this a lot when I'm doing my homework. This is my printer. I use my printer a lot for my homework too, when I need to print something to give to my teacher. It's bright orange! I love my mouse. Here's my dad's mobile phone. It's next to my computer. He always loses it - that's why he's connected it to that cute frog toy! There's a disc and its box too. The disc is very new. I got it yesterday. There's a new piece of music software on the disc. The software means my computer can make the sounds of a piano or guitar or anything. Listen to this . . .

Pupil's Book, Unit 2 page 18 2 Listen to Tom talking to a friend about a technology show. What's the address of the show's website? Hey Sarah - Are you going to the tech show on Saturday? I hope so. If my mum says it's OK, then I'll go. Cool! What'll you look at, if you go? Well . . . my keyboard isn't working so I want to look at the new ones. I think I'll buy one, if it's not too expensive. And the School Science club is going to the fair, so if I go, I'll see all my friends! Really? Are Dale and Brian going then? Yes, they are. And they're very excited. Dale said he wants to look at the printers. He says that there'll be printers there that can make toys! And Brian wants to look at the mice. Are there animals at the fair then? Haha! No - the computer mice! Oh! I see. Courtney'll go too, if she finishes her homework in time. She wants to see the mobile phones. Her brother emailed them to ask about the phones there, and there are going to be some really cool ones. He emailed them? What's their address? It's ‘information@technology. com: . They've got a website too. It's www. technology. com. Brilliant. Maybe I'll have a look when I get home. What about Scott? Well, he wants to see the dogs. Dogs?! You said there aren't any animals at the fair? Well, they're robot dogs! Wow! That sounds great. I hope you can go! I know I'll have fun if I do! 3 Listen again. Match the people (1-5) to the objects (A-H). Hey Sarah - Are you going to the tech show on Saturday? I hope so. If my mum says it's OK, then I'll go. Cool! What'll you look at, if you go? Well . . . my keyboard isn't working so I want to look at the new ones. I think I'll buy one, if it's not too expensive. And the School Science club is going to the fair, so if I go, I'll see all my friends! Really? Are Dale and Brian going then? Yes, they are. And they're very excited. Dale said he wants to look at the printers. He says that there'll be printers there that can make toys! And Brian wants to look at the mice. Are there animals at the fair then? Haha! No - the computer mice! Oh! I see. Courtney'll go too, if she finishes her homework in time. She wants to see the mobile phones. Her brother emailed them to ask about the phones there, and there are going to be some really cool ones. He emailed them? What's their address? It's ‘information@technology. com: . They've got a website too. It's www. technology. com. Brilliant. Maybe I'll have a look when I get home. What about Scott? Well, he wants to see the dogs. Dogs?! You said there aren't any animals at the fair? Well, they're robot dogs! Wow! That sounds great. I hope you can go! I know I'll have fun if I do! 4 Listen and repeat. keyboard, printers, robot

Pupil's Book, Unit 2 page 20 2 Match the icons (1-9) to the words in bold on the webpage. Then listen and check. 1 chat 2 click 3 email 4 download 5 upload 6 turn on 7 turn off 8 text 9 install

Pupil's Book, Unit 2 page 22 THE IAST TIMES AZRA WINS! The winner of The Istanbul Academy of Science and Technology's Design-an-app Competition surprised everyone. Emre Erdem tells us what happened. This Monday there was a surprise winner of Dr Safak's Design-an-app Competition. Azra Guner, who only joined the Academy last month, won first prize for her brilliant Timetabler app, which helps students organise their time. Dr $afak announced the competition at the beginning of May. She said, ‘The app must be easy to install and use on a mobile phone, and it must help students with their schoolwork. It shouldn't use lots of battery. ' Throughout the month this newspaper followed the competition. We spoke to students about possible winners and everyone said the same thing: ‘If Burak Gil enters it, he'll win it. ' ‘Burak knows everything about computers, ' said Ahmet Terim. ‘His parents teach him. ’ ‘He'll be the Steve Jobs of Turkey one day, ' said Mira Balta. Everyone was surprised when Dr $afak announced the winner of the competition. Azra Guner is new to the school and very quiet. Nobody knew that she designed her first app when she was only seven years old. Now, she is the star of the software class and everyone wants to talk about her app. ‘It makes it easy to plan your time! ’ said Hasan Can. ‘I love it! ’ said Ecrin Bartu. ‘With Azra's app, I can make a timetable really quickly! ' Although Burak was very unhappy when he lost the competition, some students say that he and Azra are going to design a new app together. If that happens, you'll be able to read all about it in the IAST Times. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WINNER What does your app do? AZRA It makes a timetable for students. Can you explain that? Of course! You tell the app what exams you need to study for. You also tell it when the exams are. Then you click on the special ‘plan' button and the app makes a timetable for you. Do you mean it tells you what to study and when? Yes, that's right! That means you have more time for studying because the app does the planning for you. Technology Fact of the Week Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and one of the first computer programmers. In 1843 she wrote a program for a type of computer that was invented by an Englishman called Charles Babbage.

Pupil's Book, Unit 2 page 24 2 Listen and read the text. What do these numbers mean? There are lots of apps that you can download to a smartphone or laptop. The most popular are games, news, weather and social media apps. If you have an app on your phone, you just have to click on it. This means you don't need to search for a program or write the address of a website. One of the first apps was a game called ‘Snake'. Players had to make a line of dots around the small screen. This might not sound very interesting, but 400 million people played this simple game. Now there are over 2 million apps to choose from. < How do you make an app? > < Companies can spend between $50, 000- $1 million on making apps. That's a lot of money! But if you have a good idea, you can make an app and create it for free. There are a few things to do if you want to make an app: 1 Think about what your app is going to do, how it will be good for the people using it and how you will let people know about your app. Write your ideas on a piece of paper and draw pictures. 2 Go online and check if there are other apps like yours. If there are, how is yours better? 3 Wireframe your idea. A wireframe is like a storyboard. You draw your design idea so that you can see what your app does. There are lots of different wireframing websites to help you do this. 4 Learn the language of app building. Lots of schools have coding clubs which teach you the languages you need to build apps. You need to choose a coding language and learn the rules. For example, when you are using HTML5, you need to use these symbols < > at the beginning and end of your codes. > Did you know? A mobile phone is more powerful than the computer that sent astronauts to the moon in 1969.