De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
Copy and fill in the grid (on your own) and discuss the answers in your group.
What information do you get about Ada’s: (use key words)
childhood
parents
adult life
work
Ada Gordon, 1815
The woman most often known as ‘Ada Lovelace’ was born Ada Gordon in 1815, sole child of the brief and tempestuous marriage of the erratic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and his mathematics-loving wife Annabella Milbanke.
Fearing that Ada would inherit her father’s volatile ‘poetic’ temperament, her mother raised her under a strict regimen of science, logic, and mathematics. Ada herself from childhood had a fascination with machines– designing fanciful boats and steam flying machines, and poring over the diagrams of the new inventions of the Industrial Revolution that filled the scientific magazines of the time.
Ada Lovelace, 1838
At the age of 19 she was married to an aristocrat, William King; when King was made Earl of Lovelace in 1838 his wife became Lady Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. She is generally called Ada Lovelace, which is a little incorrect but saves confusion! She had three children.
In 1833, Lovelace’s mentor, the scientist and polymath Mary Sommerville, introduced her to Charles Babbage, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics who had already attained considerable celebrity for his visionary and perpetually unfinished plans for gigantic clockwork calculating machines. Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace both had somewhat unconventional personalities and became close and lifelong friends. Babbage described her as “that Enchantress who has thrown her magical spell around the most abstract of Sciences and has grasped it with a force which few masculine intellects could have exerted over it,” or an another occasion, as “The Enchantress of Numbers”.
The Analytical Engine
Lovelace was deeply intrigued by Babbage’s plans for a tremendously complicated device he called the Analytical Engine, which was to combine the array of adding gears of his earlier Difference Engine with an elaborate punch card operating system. It was never built, but the design had all the essential elements of a modern computer.
In 1842 Lovelace translated a short article describing the Analytical Engine by the italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, for publication in England. Babbage asked her to expand the article, “as she understood the machine so well”. The final article is over three times the length of the original and contains several early ‘computer programs,’ as well as strikingly prescient observations on the potential uses of the machine, including the manipulation of symbols and creation of music. Although Babbage and his assistants had sketched out programs for his engine before, Lovelace’s are the most elaborate and complete, and the first to be published; so she is often referred to as “the first computer programmer”. Babbage himself “spoke highly of her mathematical powers, and of her peculiar capability — higher he said that of any one he knew, to prepare the descriptions connected with his calculating machine.”
Ada Lovelace died of cancer at 36, a few short years after the publication of “Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator”.
The Analytical Engine remained a vision, until Lovelace’s notes became one of the critical documents to inspire Alan Turing’s work on the first modern computers in the 1940s.
Her thwarted potential, and her passion and vision for technology, have made her a powerful symbol for modern women in technology.
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
Tip!
Er zijn verschillende manieren om woordjes te leren.
Je kunt de woorden hardop voorlezen of overschrijven.
Het belangrijkste is dat je dit niet te lang achter elkaar doet, want dan leer je niets meer.
In twee keer 10 minuten leer je meer dan in een half uur.
Irregular Verbs
Bekijk de onderstaande kennisbank en bestudeer de volgende irregular verbs (onregelmatige werkwoorden):
There are a number of negatives structures in English ranging from basic negative sentences to the more complicated neither ... nor and not ... either.
Learn the most common negative structures and do the exercises.
The most common negatives structures are:
In pairs, taking turns, form negative sentences. Do this either in writing or orally.
Let your partner or your teacher assess your sentences. Ask your teacher for instructions.
to look up - meaning of avocet – Internet
to go - to work - with Tim
to be – to take notes – Samantha
to have - a test – this week
to cook – pasta – for breakfast
to fun shop- to rain
to prolongue – phone account
to switch – Internet provider
to watch – gross pictures – the Internet
will – to wait for
Assignment 2: Short negative answers
Study Short Negative Answers.
Form groups of three or four pupils.
In pairs, taking turns. The first person asks a question. The second person forms negative answers.
For example: to read - book
Person 1: Do you like reading a book?
Person 2: No, I don't.
Do this either in writing or orally.
Let your partner or your teacher assess your sentences.
to like – to swim
to want – Fristi
will go – London
want to get – part time job
to keep – surf the Internet
may go – bath room
can come – stay for dinner
wear coat – all summer
keep lunch - fridge
make friends - Facebook
Step 5 - Speaking
Talking about the Internet
Read the questions and decide which 5 you are going to discuss in your group.
What are the sites, apps or games you most commonly access?
Have you ever chatted on the Internet? Whom with?
Would you like to go on a date with someone you met online, for example in a game? Why (not)?
How do you recognize fake news on the Internet?
Do you think it is good to have an minimum age for some games to play?
Do you think that it is important for schools to have Internet access? Why?
Do you think that people should put photos of their friends onto the Internet (Facebook/Instagram..)? Why (not)?
Do you think that it is a good or bad habit for young people to play computer games?
Is there a limit for the number of hours a day?
Why should you be careful about giving out personal information to people that you 'meet' on a online platform?
What do you know about cyberbullying? Do you think online bullying is worse than or not as bad as physical bullying?
Step 6 - Writing
Politely contribute to the thread
You are going to read a text that appeared on the Internet.
Students of English may contribute to a thread of comments.
You are going to contribute to the thread (offline).
Read the text and the comments.
British etiquette – are we too polite?
Thursday, 21 November 2013 – 15:47
Almost everyone who has studied English has been warned about the way Brits love their manners. It is part of our national identity, as much as fish and chips or complaining about the weather. Recently I have been wondering where this comes from and I read online that we say sorry up to eight times a day. Probably the same amount of times that any other person says “hello” or “how are you”. It is almost like to greeting to us! It was only when I was explaining how there are five steps of saying thank you when you buy something from a shop to a Mexican friend of mine that I realised how mad it sounded.
After some research (googling) I have not been able to find any specific reasons why we are the way we are. I suppose for centuries manners and how we eat at the table and talk to other people has been one of the barriers between the lower and upper classes and represents your social status. Britain has traditionally been a quite conservative and reserved country. There are many articles suggesting that this seemingly polite attitude of always saying please and thank you is quite false because it is impossible to always feel that you want to thank someone or say please.
Maybe it is for this reason that people are going one of two ways: they are incredibly polite and hold back on their feelings or not polite at all, and express their true feelings. Some Brits are fed up of pretending that they are always content and having to please people. Sometimes because we feel we have to be polite we are prevented from saying what we truly think. Some people feel that the hard truth is the best way to be. Do you think it is better to not hurt people’s feelings and be polite or to let people know the truth? In your country what is the custom? How about with bus drivers? Or cashiers? I know in some countries if someone is considered to be doing their job, the clients think that they do not need to be thanked.
Discussion
Does your country have similar social rules to Britain?
Comments
Monisa 2 November, 2014 - 05:57
In my country, people who understand manners are very polite, but those who don't sometimes end up in hurting others.
Being polite and speaking softly is, certainly, something which everyone should try to posses. But you also need to be clever/ intelligent and, perhaps, little bit hard at the right circumstances. I don't know if you can be very polite to a notorious criminal.!
justcricketforme 30 January, 2014 - 13:05
Well, here in Pakistan, there are some who do some who don't. Mostly people here think the poor aren't humans. They never greet them nor be polite with them. Being polite here is like being a Martian. If your very polite here, people are like that maybe she's mad or something. I have a friend who is from Britain and everyone from seeing her manners and being polite, they are like she's mad!
Harabeli Supersweet 27 November, 2013 - 13:27
No, it doesn't. People are not too polite here. I try to be polite, but I end up being misunderstood. For example, I was waiting in the queue of a store to buy something. When my turn came, I smiled and said "Hi!" to the seller. She looked at me and yelled "What do you want?". It was strange. Even when I see somebody eating, I say "Enjoy it!" and they see me like I'm from another planet. I think that these social rules should be part of every culture. To be polite doesn't mean to be fake, nerd, geek or stupid, the terms that society use. It means to respect yourself and the others.
Lorriee 8 April, 2014 - 14:12
Good to see I am not alone. I do the same things but people are (trying) to be polite with me as well. I think we should pay particular attention to everyone, to make them smiling us back.
Jelenaa2 26 November, 2013 - 14:18
Great article. Umm, I think that being polite is a part of British culture and tradition so why changing it? It's always nice to ask someone questions like 'how are you?' or 'what are you doing?'. There's nothing bad in it. Example: Every time I get off the bus or leave the store I say: 'Thank you. Goodbye.' That's my way of showing how much I appreciate their work.
Write here your own contribution (either as a reaction to the main text or as a reaction to other contributions). Be very polite!
Write your contribution (either as a reaction to the main text or as a reaction to other contributions) and be very polite (the Dutch are considered rather blunt by most other people). Use paper and pencil.
Exchange your comment with a class mate. Read and discuss your contributions, politely commenting on possible improvements.
Swap back, correct your text and hand it in for grading to your teacher.
Open het werkbestand in google docs: 6.1 - Computers - A reaction. Maak een kopie van het werkblad in je eigen omgeving (Bestand - Een kopie maken...) of download het werkblad (Bestand - Downloaden als).
Step 7 - Evaluation
Fill in the schedule and answer the questions below.
Activiteit
leuk
niet leuk
makkelijk
moeilijk
weet ik al
nieuw
Listening
Reading
Vocabulary
Grammar
Speaking
Writing
What have you learnt in this double period?
Answer the following questions:
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Toelichting
Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollecties voor Engels voor havo en vwo, leerjaar 3. Dit is thema 6 'Internet'. Het onderwerp van deze les is: Computers. Deze les staat in het teken van computers waarbij er ingegaan wordt in het gebruik en functies van computers. Daarbij wordt ook het internet besproken. De onregelmatige werkwoorden in deze les zijn: to send, to set, en to shake. In de grammaticaopdracht worden 'Negative Verb Conjugation' en 'short negative answers' behandeld.
Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollecties voor Engels voor havo en vwo, leerjaar 3. Dit is thema 6 'Internet'. Het onderwerp van deze les is: Computers. Deze les staat in het teken van computers waarbij er ingegaan wordt in het gebruik en functies van computers. Daarbij wordt ook het internet besproken. De onregelmatige werkwoorden in deze les zijn: to send, to set, en to shake. In de grammaticaopdracht worden 'Negative Verb Conjugation' en 'short negative answers' behandeld.
The subject of this period is computers.
Ada Gordon, 1815
British etiquette – are we too polite?
