Advantages: Easy access to information
It has become quite easy to access up-to-date information anytime, anywhere. This has been made possible thanks to modern technologies such as broadband Internet. Innovation and creativity.
It used to be very difficult to start a business, you needed a lot of capital, and there was limited access to business information. It's easy to start a business today from home.
Disadvantages of modern technology:
Increase loneliness
Social isolation intensifies, people spend more and more time in video games, use social networks, and they neglect their real life.
Job loss
Modern technology has replaced many human jobs, robots do the work that people used to do
1) We haven't known each other for ten years.
How long have we known
2)My father hasn't had the same job for ages.
Has your dad had the same job for ages?
3) A haven't lived in the same house since I was born.
Have you lived in the same house since you were born?
5)My English teacher hasn't worked at this school for very long.
Has your English teacher worked at this school for very long?
6)I haven't sent a few text messages today.
Have you sent a few text messages today?
7) She hasn't felt happy this morning.
Has she felt happy this morning?
8) You haven't seen a good Film at the cinema.
Have you seen a good Film at the cinema?
5 Make compound nouns with a word from A and a word from B. Complete the sentences with the compound nouns. Be careful of the spelling: some compounds are single words and others are not.
A bag fossil greenhouse part chewing dental
B gas fuels gum drop records time
1 After the fire, the police discovered who the victim was by examining his dental records.
2 CO2 is a greenhouse gas, so it causes global warming.
3 My sister is going to get a part time job while she's at university.
4 The policeman was pleased when he found the chewing gum in the car - it was an important clue.
5 You should take your luggage to the bag drop when you get to the airport.
6 I don't think we should burn fossil fuels anymore - it's bad for the environment.