DIY stands for "Do it yourself", which is building or repairing something without the help of a professional. For example, if you need to paint your living room wall, you do it yourself instead of having it painted by a painter. The same applies to other things you might need to do in your house, like fixing the roof, hanging a picture on the wall, putting up a shelf or changing a lightbult. The video above is a very good example.
DIY VOCABULARY
This is a list of DIY vocabulary with pictures. You can have a look at the tools we use to do DIY and also learn some DIY collocations. I recommend you to learn them by heart before trying this picture matching quiz. It may come in handy when you need to visit a hardware shop because your lamp has broken!!
Here is a short test to see how much you know already!!
Once you have finished with all the vocabulary stuff, it is high time for a listening activity. Use this conversation between two friends to practise DIY live!!
NEW USES FOR EVERYDAY ITEMS
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Life isn't quite as complicated when you have a few tips up your sleeve. In this unit we have learned a lot about the wide variety of unintended uses there are for everyday items! On this website you will find a fine collection of brilliant uses for things I am sure you all have at home. We have already mentioned some of them in class, but if you are brave enough to try some, let us know how successful you are in the comments section below. Thanks for sharing!!
PERMISSION, PROHIBITION, OBLIGATION, NO OBLIGATION
To express these concepts in English we normally use modal verbs: CAN, CAN'T / HAVE TO, DON'T HAVE TO / MUST and MUSTN'T. The British Council website can help you learn the difference.
Once you are experts on the use of these modals in English, why don´t you try the whiteboard game we played in class? Click here to draw signs and let your mates guess what they mean! Write your answers on the comment section below
TECHNOLOGY
Some everyday words have changed their meaning to adapt to this new technological world we live in. Can you figure them out? Fill in the poem below with the words we dicussed in class
To be honest, do you have a balanced relationship with technology in your life?. Try to understand why some people become dependent on digital media by completing this quiz. Then have a look at all the TECHNOLOGY vocabulary we have studied in class.
Watch this short documentary from the BBC on how technology has changed the world we live in. Hope you have time at home to see it again and do the task below. I´m also including the script for you to check your answers. Enjoy!!
1. The web has created unimaginable ____________ and it’s encouraged millions to work for nothing.
2. The web has been blamed for creating a generation of web addicts, and it has opened up new realms of ___________.
3. The narrator states that the internet is having a strong ___________ on our daily lives.
4. Al Gore believes that the internet is an ___________ tool, and it has more potential than any other that human civilisation has ever developed.
5. Stephen Fry thinks that the internet is ___________ technology.
6. Every day, over 35 million people ___________ _____________ in the British Isles.
7. Every month, over 5 million people use a ____________ ___________ in Britain.
SCRIPT
"The web is the defining technological revolution of our lifetimes.
Almost 2 billion of us are now online. And in the ten years that I’ve been
studying the web, and writing about it as a journalist, I’ve seen it take our
world and shake it apart. The web has created unimaginable wealth; it encouraged
millions to work for nothing. It’s challenged authority, yet allowed regimes to
spy and censor as never before. And it’s been blamed for creating a generation
of web addicts; it opened up new realms of knowledge. In this series, I’ll be meeting all the
pioneers and key players: everybody from Google to Facebook, Twitter to Amazon.
The people who’ve helped bring about this seemingly unstoppable levelling of
power, culture and values that’s having such an impact in all of our daily lives.
Bill Gates: Well, the web is how mankind communicates nowadays.
Steve Wozniak: It’s like the internet has become a brain. It’s the smartest brain in
the world.
Al Gore: It is an empowering tool that has more potential than any other that
human civilisation
has ever developed.
Mark Zuckerberg: The world is just going to keep on getting more and more open; there’s going
to be more information available about everything.
Stephen Fry: This is astounding technology,
and we should just take a moment to celebrate the power and the reach that it
gives us.
And so this is the story of the web. But it’s more than that. This is
also the story of how the web is remaking our world. A quarter of the planet
now uses the web. On any given day on the British Isles,
over 35 million of us will log
on. The web is where we spend our money: around a billion pounds a week.
Britain’s
more active e-shoppers? In Swansea, with Kirkwall in the Orkneys in second place. It’s where we
fall in love, with 5 million of us using a dating website every month. Manchester
and Central London have, proportionally, the
most online lonely hearts. And the web is where we express opinion: 18 million
of us read blogs. Dumfries the least; West London
the most. The web is a revolution".
PLAY KAHOOT AGAIN!!
To complete this unit, would you like to try and play a new game? Remember that you will need both your computer and a mobile phone to play. Click on the image above, go to https://kahoot.it on your mobile and type the game code. You will need to register first. Then just enjoy the game before moving on to the next unit!!
PLAY KAHOOT AGAIN!!
To complete this unit, would you like to try and play a new game? Remember that you will need both your computer and a mobile phone to play. Click on the image above, go to https://kahoot.it on your mobile and type the game code. You will need to register first. Then just enjoy the game before moving on to the next unit!!
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