Have the ICTs changed our life?

In the last 20 years, there has been a great evolution in the ICT sector and nobody can deny that this evolution has changed our society considerably.

Have you got an account in any social network? What do you use it for? Have you got a smartphone, a tablet, an e-book, a laptop, Internet connection...? What do you use them for?

Was life better then than know? How have the ICTs changed our way of life?

We'll talk about this and much more.

Here's some vocabulary you may need.

VOCABULARY – ICTs

(Information and Communication Technologies)

-App (application): aplicación

- Battery: bacteria, pila

- Bluetooth

- Bright: brillante

- Cassette player: radiocassette

- CD player: reproductor de CDs

- Computer: ordenador

- CPU (Central Processing Unit): CPU

- Device: dispositivo

- Digital board: pizarra digital

-E-book: libro electrónico

- e-mail: correo electrónico

- Floppy disk: disquete

- Handsfree: manos libres

- Interactive: interactivo

- i-Phone

- Keyboard: teclado

- Laptop: ordenador portatil

- Memory stick: lápiz de memoria

- Mobile phone: teléfono móvil

- Mouse: ratón

- Notebook: ordenador portátil (pequeño)

- Online: en red (ej: online shopping)

- Portable: que se puede llevar

- Screen: Pantalla

- Smartphone

- Social network: red social

- Speakers: altavoces

- Tablet: tableta

- To take: llevar

- Used to do: solíamos hacer / hacíamos

- Video chat: videoconferencia

- WI-FI: conexión inalámbrica

- Wire: cable

- Wireless: sin cable