Researching Themes/Subjects
Technology
Words
1. Progression
2. Improving
3. The Internet
4. Communication
5. Expanding
6. Convenience
7. Change
8. Development
8. Complexity
9. Money
10. Wireless
Objects
1. Laptop
2. Mobile phone
3. Camera
4. Iphone
5. Ipod
6. Kindle
7. Xbox
8. Navigation system
9. Printer
10. Television
Facts
1. 160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.
2. There are some 1 billion computers in use.
3. There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.
4. There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.
5. Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.
6. The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.
7. About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, 450 million of them speak English.
8. About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.
9. People view 15 billion videos online every month.
10. 24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.
People
1. Bill Gates
2. Steve Jobs
3. Mark Zuckerberg
4. Alexander Graham Bell
5. Konrad Zuse
6. Philo Farnsworth
7. Tim Berners-Lee
8. Johann Carolus
9. Frederick Scott Archer
10. Isaac Newton
Planes
Words
1. Flying
2. Travel
3. Air
4. Transport
5. Moving
6. Take off
7. Landing
8. Turbulence
9. Pollution
10. Pilot
Objects
1. Wing
2. Engine
3. Passport
4. Suitcase
5. Seat
6. Seatbelt
7. Tail
8. Window
9. Stairs
10. Oxygen mask
Facts
1. Fully loaded, a Boeing 747 weighs as much as 400 tonnes.
2. The risk of being killed in a plane crash in any particular year is one in 125 million passenger journeys.
3. The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days
4. A 747-400 has six million parts (half of which are fasteners) made in 33 different countries
5. The outer skin of an aeroplane is only 5 mm thick. Only 7.5 in (19 cm) separate the passengers from the outside
6. During takeoff, when full of high pressure air, the takeoff weight is increased by about a ton.
7. Seventy-five thousand engineering drawings were used to produce the first 747.
8. The diameter of the 747 engine cowling is 8 feet 6 inches (2.6 m).
9. The 747-400 has 16 main landing gear tires and two nose landing gear tires.
Reading and Books
Words
1. Reading
2. Story
3. Cliff-hanger
4. Library
5. Book club
6. Lines
7. Listening
8. Fantasy
9. Fairytale
10. Poetry
Objects
1. Books
2. Glasses
3. Pages
4. Shelves
5. Library card
6. Dictionary
7. Thesaurus
8. Bookmark
9. Book light
10. Kindle
Facts
1. The average person in business reads no faster than people did 100 years ago.
2. The average reading speed is 200 – 250 words a minute
3. In non-technical material – roughly 2 minutes per page. If you doubt this, test your reading speed - there is a reading speed test elsewhere in this site.
4. In technical material, the average reading rate is approx 50 – 75 words a minute – roughly 5 – 6 minutes per page.
5. Total information is doubling every 9 months.
6. Therefore we have to process information faster and faster just to maintain our existing knowledge level.
6. 360 000 new titles are published each year in the English language alone.
7. However, the average American college graduate only reads 5 books in his/her post-college lifetime.
8. We therefore end up knowing more and more about less, and less and less about just about everything else.
People
1. Jane Austen
2. JK Rowling
3. Jacqueline Wilson
4. Charlotte Bronte
5. Roald Dahl
6. Charles Dickens
7. William Shakespeare
8. George Orwell
9. PD James
10. William Wordsworth
Teaching and Learning
Words
1. Education
2. Developing
3. Speaking
4. Watching
5. Listening
6. Kinetic
7. Time
8. Skills
9. Thinking
10. Commitment
Objects
1. Whiteboard
2. Pen
3. Paper
4. Books
5. Computer
6. Calculator
7. Tests
8. Results
9. Television
10. Ruler
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