Technology How things are made: factories, chocolate and crisps, bottles and cans and recycling, clothes and trainers, pencils and paper, toys and Lego, how a car is built, phones and computer chips, fridges and heat pumps, cooking and cleaning machines.
The technology course of Mova's primary school: 43 lessons, 795 sentences, each sentence with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mova corpus 0.4).
1 How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people 17 sentences · A factory is a building where the same thing is made again and again, thousands of times a day, by machines… 2 Chocolate and sweets 17 sentences · Chocolate starts as bitter beans inside big pods on cocoa trees in hot countries, mostly in West Africa, and… 3 Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy 16 sentences · Cameras watch the crisps falling, and tiny puffs of air blow out any burnt or green one in a fraction of a s… 4 Bottles, cans and recycling 15 sentences · A plastic drinks bottle starts life as a little plastic tube about the size of your finger, which is heated… 5 Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers 19 sentences · Look at the label in your T-shirt: it may say Made in Bangladesh or Vietnam, because many clothes are design… 6 Pencils, paper and school things 18 sentences · Almost everything in your pencil case was made by machines: a pencil is a rod of baked graphite and clay san… 7 Toys and Lego 18 sentences · A Lego brick begins as a handful of plastic grains, melted and squirted at huge pressure into a steel mould,… 8 How a car is built 18 sentences · A car factory works like a giant recipe: flat steel sheets go in at one end and a finished car drives out at… 9 Phones and computer chips 17 sentences · Inside your phone is a computer chip smaller than a fingernail holding billions of tiny switches, printed wi… 10 Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps 18 sentences · A fridge does not make cold: it moves heat out of the box and lets it go from pipes at the back, which is wh… 11 Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob 19 sentences · Every cooking machine in the kitchen does one job: it turns electricity or burning gas into heat and puts th… 12 Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing 16 sentences · Cleaning machines do the boring jobs people once did by hand: scrubbing clothes, wringing them out, beating… 13 Heating, water pipes and drains 18 sentences · The clean water arrives from a treatment works, pushed along by pumps and by gravity from reservoirs and wat… 14 Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms 18 sentences · Electricity reaches your home through a cable, passes the meter that counts it, and goes to the fuse box, wh… 15 Kitchen and garden dangers 18 sentences · The kitchen and the garden are full of machines that cut, spin or get very hot, which is exactly why they ar… 16 Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries 19 sentences · The battery in a torch is gentle: you can hold it all day. 17 Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard 17 sentences · A petrol or diesel car is moved by many tiny explosions: fuel burns inside small cylinders, pushes pistons d… 18 Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags 18 sentences · A moving car is heavy and fast, and it cannot simply stop: the brakes have to turn all that movement into he… 19 Electric cars and charging 18 sentences · An electric car has no engine burning fuel: a big battery under the floor powers electric motors that turn t… 20 Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights 17 sentences · A busy street is a big shared machine: buses, trams, lorries and people all move at once, and traffic lights… 21 Trains and the Underground 20 sentences · A train is a long chain of carriages or wagons rolling on two steel rails. 22 Why planes fly 15 sentences · This upward push is called lift. 23 Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones 21 sentences · An airport is like a huge machine for sorting people, bags and planes. 24 Ships, ports and submarines 18 sentences · The secret is shape: the hollow hull pushes aside a huge amount of water, and the water pushes back up with… 25 Bicycles and other wheels 21 sentences · A bicycle turns the push of your legs into rolling. 26 Escalators and lifts 21 sentences · An escalator is a loop of steps on a chain, pulled round and round by a motor. 27 Road and railway safety 20 sentences · A car, a bus or a train is a heavy machine that needs time and space to stop, and its driver can only stop f… 28 Diggers, cranes and cement mixers 22 sentences · Building machines are giants with one big trick each. 29 Tunnels and what lies under the street 17 sentences · Under the street you walk on there is a hidden city: water pipes, sewers, gas pipes, electricity and interne… 30 Bridges and skyscrapers 23 sentences · Every bridge and every building has one job: to carry its own weight, and the weight of everything on it, sa… 31 Roads and road signs 18 sentences · A road looks like a flat black strip, but it is really a layer cake. 32 Power stations and the grid 20 sentences · Almost all the electricity in your house was made by something spinning. 33 Wind, sun and other clean energy 19 sentences · Some energy never runs out. 34 Batteries 19 sentences · A battery is a little box of stored chemical energy. 35 Phones and how a call travels 21 sentences · When you ring Grandma, your phone's microphone turns the wobbles of your voice into electric signals, and th… 36 Computers and screens 20 sentences · A computer is not clever the way you are; it is incredibly fast and incredibly obedient. 37 The internet and undersea cables 17 sentences · The internet is not one machine; it is a network of networks, millions of computers joined together. 38 Satellites and GPS 19 sentences · A satellite does not float in space; it is falling all the time. 39 Robots at work and at home 19 sentences · A robot vacuum feels a chair leg with its bumper, its program says turn, and its wheels turn; that sense, de… 40 Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves 22 sentences · A self-driving car is a robot you can sit in. 41 Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat 19 sentences · All of these are real machines and real places that people built and used. 42 Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★ 15 sentences · This olympiad lesson mixes the machines of the whole course, from the factory floor to the kitchen, the bike… 43 Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★ 18 sentences · This last olympiad lesson takes you out of the house: onto runways and canals, through tunnels and over brid… ← previous Spacenext → Ukrainian street↑ back to the school This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/