Wednesday, 2 April 2008

Are you a techie? (Unit 3)



Hi guys,



Unit 3 already and it's about technologies. So, answer the following questions and let's start the discussion:


1. Would you consider yourself a "techie"?


2. How often do you use computers and what for?


3. Describe the following picture

32 comments:

sam said...

1. I don't consider myself a techie, I think I'm the opposite than a techie 'cause I have an old mobile phone without mp3 or bluethut and I can live without the newest technologies.

2. I don't use my computer a lot, I normally use it to see the predictions of the sea and the wind to know how the surf is, I use it to talk with my friends by messenger too, and sometimes I use the computers to do homeworks like now, but only sometimes...jejeje.

Description:
This photo is so strange, I think that the objects there are in the picture are littles machines that appear like rats of laboratory or meaby hey are real rats but with mechanical grafts.

yosías (pucho) said...

1.am not a techie because my priority is the swimming and the sport. However, i have a good technology. I've in my bed-room a Tv, a personal computer, a big radio, a DVD and Play Station.

2.I use my computer for talk with my friends by the Messenger. In addition, i use my PC for see the news of sport, for listen music, for view some films... too.

Description:
This picture is so bad for me¡ hahaha¡ it was a joke¡
finally, when i saw this picture, i don't have words for describe it because it's very "confused" but I inmediatly thought...Technology¡¡

Nils Krings said...

1.
I am not directly a techie, because I do not have the latest technologie. So I am not up to date, but on the other side I have to confes that I've got quite a lot of technologie in my house, in my car, a mobile phone, mp3 player, video-cam etc.. So I don't care if it's new, but actually I enjoy listing to the radio, while driving to school and watching fotos, which I have taken with my camera. And sometimes when I go jogging, my Mp3 player is a really good companion. So, regarding to all that I think technical progress is an important and interessting field in our society of which we benefit a lot.

2.
Yes, you caught me I have got a computer like almost everybody nowadays! Exactly it is a notebook.
In reality I am using it quite a lot. Okay, that's relative! Not every day, but almost everyday! The functions which I find most interessting are for example: "watching movies- dvd's, to phone to my family and my friends by using skype, to be a apple polisher- to write commentaries here in the Blog, to write and to recive e-mails, to use online shopping and and and.

3.
Hopefully that strange creatures won't visite me on my balcony, during relaxing in the sun. I am just kidding.
The only conection which comes up to my mind is that some days ago I went to that supermarket "Al Campo" and bought some things "on my own". I mean that I was paying at the cash desk, where nobody is working. You just have to scroll your shopping over these sensors of the cash desk and in the end you introduce the money in the machine. I was fascinated and it really worked good, but on the other side I was scared, because it is a job killer for many people of us. So I hope that technology will make us happy and not unhappy. I am not a pessimist- stayfresh and enjoy your weekend!

Jose Hdez said...

1. I do not consider myself to be a techie but the truth is that I like the new technologies but I do not get obsessed with them. And I have of everything notebook , mobile with camera, video, bluthout, a psp.... but in spite of having this do not consider myself to be a techie

2.Normally I use my laptop every day to look at the e-mail, to speak with my friends for the msn, to see movies, and to sail along Internet. But I do not use it to much because I do not have time.

3.This photo is very strange because I do not find relation with the topic. The only thing that can look like the topic of the technologies is the aspect of the mice that die to be robots. I hope that they it are because if not I do not understand the meaning of the photo.

Isma said...

1. I can,t consider myself a "techie", but I love very much technologies. I think it,s a essential thing today. Everybody live surrounded by technologies. Everone use mobiles phones, computers, video-cameras, radios, televisions, etc.

2. I use my computer very much. I speak with my friend for the messenger, I do my homeworks, I visit Internet pages by cars, etc.

3. Description:
It,s a very original photo. There are several mechanical rats beside a strange road.

gloriac said...

1.I think that i´m a techie but i don´t wan´t to be it, nowadays technologies are very important and it´s almost impossible to live separate of them.Mobile phone, laptop computer, ipod....all these techniologies are present in my day by day ....and without them i couldn´t to live.
2. I use my pc everyday, for my job, for the university and to be in contatc with my family and friends.

gloriac said...

This picture it´s really extrange it´s a future´s vision . I hate mouses, are horrible but the mouses in the picture are funny, they are like robots and i prefer them je.But on the oder hand it makes me think in the future and the how the technologies have and effect in our lives and in the planet and nature live.

Carlos said...

1.-I am not techie although I have computer , movil phone with bluetoo , and other machines , but I don´t consider a techie . I normally used to a block , pencil , etc for these I am not techie.

2.-I use my computer for I play once in a while also I use to computer for I do homework and I read the newspaper .

Description :
For my these photo is very rare , because I see a rats in the highway , but also I think that is a mouse of tecnology

Nira said...

1)I don´t consider myself a techie,because i don´t use it a lot.For example i don´t have MP3 OR MP4,my mobile is old but i like it,I have a computer but i don´t have internet in my house,etc...I like a lot the new tecnologies but for my is impossible use it.

2)I have a personal computer,but i only use it for estudies,to see my pictures and some times i use internet in the university with wifi conecction.

3)this photo is very strange.I see a small robots that they are rats and I think that now the tecnology is very incredible and sometimes I don´t have words to describe it.

saulo said...

i am not a techie because the tecnology is not my hobbie, but i try to know to use all tecnologies because i think is important to be in the new world.
i usually use my computer for speak with my friend,download music, and try to do my homework.
i don´t understand the photo, i think there are robotic rats but really i don´t know.

Adrián said...

1 I don´t think that I´m a techie, but I love the new tecnology. I like the computers a lot, and my friends teach me a lot of things about computers.

2 I use my computer a lot, I use it to hear music, reed the news, chat with my friends, play computer games, visit web pages, do my homework and to investigate a lot of things.

3 I think that the mice that appear in the photo are made out of metal, but I don´t think that they are machines. It looks like modern art, made with rubush.

Manu said...

1 - I am not a techie, because I try that my life is based on the balance of the things, and the definition of "techie" is a person that only thinck about the new technologies.I actually like the technologies, because help me in many things, but as everything, this is very bad when you are obsessed.


2 - I use my computer only when I can and have time, usually in the weekends.I use the computer for see films or programs, speak with my friends and see in internet many things, but the prinoipal, I use the computer for listen and download music, is my "petrol" especially in the morning, when I wake up.

3 - For me the photo is art, is wonderfull photo and it is possible that it is minimalist for many reasons. And I see many forms or interpretations, for example the rates are made with pipes, and normally we use the rates as pipes in experiments.

dacil said...

1.i'm no considerer a "techie", only in many ocassions but very normal, i only use computers, mobile phone, my ipod and many more, i like that things that i use benn good, for example i think that ipod is the best music reproductor, i like music and i want a good reproductor, only in this moments i can say that i'm a "techie".
2.nowadays, the computer is so important...!i use my computer all the days, to see information, to work, to contact with other people, to send emails...i don't only use my computer in my home, in university i use the computer all the days...
3.i think that these mouses are from FUTURAMA is a rad of TV that is about the future.
these mouses are electrican mouses thay will be the future mouses like a robots, i hope that this situation doesn't ocure because i hate the mouses!!

Yanira said...

1.Every day I use my mobile phone, PC, TV, radio... but I don´t consider myself a techie because I think that all the people use it too likes me.

2.I use my computer every day because of my job. Every day I must complete a "WORD" chart whit the people who comes up to my spinning class and theirs evolutions.
But, I use my computer too to do homeworks, find information, read the newspapers, speak with my foreigns friends by e-mail and so one.
3. The photo is really strange. So, my prediction about the meaning is: the photo represent the future experiments in which the scientifics won`t use live animals likes mouses. So, the scientist community creates this robotic mouses that works likes a real mouse.
In conclusion, in the future could be possible that scientifics won`t practise yours experiments whit live animals because I think that this is intolerable.

Fayna said...

1.- I don´t consider a techie because I don´t konw much modern technology, It don´t attracts me. I use it when necessary.

2.- I use my computer not much. I use it for the work,to send e-mails, to to make contact with the people who need, to search information and to do the works.


3.- I think that the picture is very original. There are three mice that that are made with iron things and this is incredible because if you looking the picture from a distance the mice seems to be real.

Anonymous said...

1. I'm not a techie and I don't want to become. Techies are always waiting for the new technologic items to buy.To be addict to the technology is not good at all because all the new phones computers palms and others are made to keep the poeple far from the other ones. I think that these new ways of comunication are bad for society because poeple don't have to meet themselves to speak and they don't share real things anymore.

2. Eventhought Iam affraid of the huge increasing of the computer power I've got one. I use it for music and movies, watch swell forecast and from fews days post my homework!

3. This picture is very interesting. In my mind it is about the laboratory experiences and the research on new technologies. I think these two subjects are linked on this artistic picture. I think that the message from the artist is :
"yesterday we use to use mouses to make the humanity improve by experiences; why not use electronical mouses to make new technology humanity improve." The simplicity of the way the mouses must take increase the ridiculous of the situation evenmore when we see no mouse on it.

Moisés said...

i am not a techie because i am por money to shop techie things,but i like the technologies.

I use the computers frecuently because in english class we have a blogg and we must writing and ask to other classmates,but too for send information and receiver emails,etc.

The picture it´s like mouses in a virtual real world its soo amazing the photo because it´s a confused picture.

Suraj said...

1) I'm not a techie, I haven't money for buy new technologies, therefore I can't let this things to me. Although I would like have a Ipod and a lot of new technologies.

2) I usually use a computers once a day for chat, homework, look emails and interesting webs but normally I don't use for a long time.

3) In this photo I see machanicals mouses in a futuristic context, It's so strange.

Eleazar said...

1. No, I don't consider me a techie. I have very electronic machines, such as: a Play Station, a TV, a DVD and a computer. However, I don't have a lot of time, because the studies, football and the friends take up a lot of time.
2. Every day, I principally use it for studying and also I use it for talking with friends, for looking sport pages and for listening music, overcoat the merengue and the reggeton.
3. It describes me future image, where the tecnology is going to have a lot of major protagonism.

lucia said...

1. I don´t consider myself a techie.I like the electronica,But I do not like to waste time being all day with your computer. I like mobile phones, mp4 but only for what is necessary, are more useful.

2.I don´t use computers much. I use it for school, to talk to my friends,etc.

3.I think an image unpleasant because mice give me much disgust.However I feel pity for them, because they use them for experiments

pAbLo!! said...

1._Hi I am not a techie because I dont use the new technologie. For me is not important to get the best items such as computer, mobile phones, etc. If they work well I bought it. However at home I have a lot of technologie, it not the best one but it is good. I have 4 tv, 4 computer one for each person and more stuff.
2._I use my computer to talk with another people, with my friends by meesenger. Also I use it to play different games like Diablo2, Counter-strike, etc. I turn on my computer everyday, it is very important for me because is the best item that was invented, nowadays who dont have his/her own computer??
3._The photograh is very abstract I dont know how to say about it but on top of that I want to tell that it is a very ugly picture.

sandro said...

1. I don´t consider myself a techie because i use the technology because I think I use the technolies only for something I need.
2.I use my computer to dowload music,talk with my friends and see videos in the youtube.
3.I don´t understand the photo,is very estrange.

Sinu said...

1. I'm not a techie, anyways if i had have enough money i would buy all new technology... so I'm not a techie at all cause I'm a poor student!

2. I use computers every day, I use it for chat with my friends, to see news, to play some games, and for write in the blog of course!

3.This image as my mates said is very very strange!. It looks like some tech-mouses living in a mechanical world created for them... So rare...

Richard said...

1- I dont consider myself a "techie", but I use every day electronic devices like; MP4, personal computer, TV, mobile phone...
These electric objects are not the most important for me because I could live withouth them. Because the most important in my life is my family, my girlfriend and my friends because I couldn't live without them.

2- I use my computer every day but just for personal use, to watch the news on-line, to talk with my friends and sometimes.. to write in the blog. haha !!

3- I don´t know very much the meaning of this picture but if you think that it is the last thing in rates, just look the rates of my garage..

Vero said...

1. I`m not a techie because I have laptop since a month and my mobile phone is older, on the other hand I don`t have mp3,mp4, pendrive, palmtop, descktop...

2. Actually I use my notebook hardly all days to speak with my galician`s friends in the messenger, watch my favourite serie (Heroes), write in this blog, looking for information on internet,to do homeworks, see videos on youtube... FOR A LOT OF THINGS¡¡¡

3. This photo is a litlle revolting because remind me the rats, at least are machines, THANK GOODNESS¡¡¡
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davidsuarez said...

1. I don´t consider myself to be a techie but usually to use new technologies like the mobile phone,the television,camera of photos or computer.I consider myself but natural, but free because my taste are others as to practise sport all along and to enjoy the natural.
2. In fact I usually don´t spend the time in front of the computer,them use to make works, to see the sportnews, videos and chat with my friends but the truth are that it tires to me and the computer bores for that reason I usually not to use it frequently and I don´t like to play in computer nor either the video game.
3. In fact I don´t understand this picture but I believe that it is the evolution of technology.When I see things of robot similar to the picture. I think about the future , a future of machines, in which the traditional thing is lost , a gray future , nothing natural without feelings nor heart."The future of the robot".

andrea said...

1.I dont consider myself a techie at all.Im not really up to date on that kind of stuff.The only thing that I coulnt live without is my phone,if my phone is not working or its out of battery I go mad!!!:P
2.I use my computer almost everyday:to check my email,to look for any information I need,in summer I usually buy my aerplane tickets on the internet.Well I guess I do depend a lot on my computer but im not techie!!! my computer is so old!!
3.the picture is a bit weird, I dont really now how to describe it :S three computer mouses that there ALIVE!!!!:P

GeOrGe said...

I do not consider me as a techie because most of the time I spend is to my favorite sport, Tennis. For example, I just use my computer when I want to contact some friends from other countries or check the newspaper. Or if some of you guys check my cell phone you immediately will see that I am not a techie.

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Hi all readers, hi teacher.

in my home there are new technologies. So, I use news technologies frequently, as, portable computer, mobile phones with Bluetooth, mp3 players, news videogames and so I should be a techie but I´m not a techie because to me the technologies isn´t excessively important in my life. I prefer play a good football match with my friends that be sitting playing with the computer, But I know that the technologies are too much important overcoat to improve our life, but will never improve our human quality.
2º describe the photo:
the photo is about the technologies, I think that the photographer wants we thinking that in the future all will be technologies ¡¡¡ as much as the ratsss !!!

David Mateos said...

I don´t if i am a techie, but i thing that not, because i don´t know to use the computer, i always broken the computers, but i want to learnt more because the computers are the future

I use the computer to realiza work, be contact with my friends, write to the english blog, view the car´s world, new cars, tecnology, …

I don´t undestand the picture i think that is the future animals or robots,

10'wa said...

1. I don't consider myself a techie because although I like to use my mobile phone, my ipod and my computer a lot, I can live without them.

2. I use my computer every day because I have to look at my university email and I like to download hot tracks and chat with my friends on messenger.

3. This photo is of three mice that seem like computer mice.

Martí said...

1. I don't consider myself to be a techie 'cause I use the technology with normality. I like the technology but I don't become exhausted a lot of money in it. I have friends techies, always they have to buy the last thing in technology (mobiles, computers, video games, videoconsolas, etc.). I prefer spending(consuming) my money in trips!

2. I use the computers every day. I use the mobile to communicate with friends and family of Mallorca, for stay with friends to do surf, to go of party, things of the university, etc... I take mp3 to listen music when I go only in the street, of trip, etc. I use the computer every day to see the mail, to write in the blog, to do works, to look for information, to speak with the friends, to see movies, to listen to music, and others...

3. It is a futurist photography, in which the rates are a technology top. Is it a science? Is it an art? Or it is a freak techie that did an assembly so that we talk about this photo ...?