UNIDAD EDUCATIVA “EL CARMEN”

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PROYECTO INTERDISCIPLINAR humanístico

PLAN EDUCATIVO COVID-19 “JUNTOS APRENDEMOS EN CASA”
PROYECTO HUMANÍSTICO No. 3
BACHILLERATO GENERAL UNIFICADO
PRIMER AÑO BACHILLERATO GENERAL UNIFICADO
PRIMER AÑO
CICLO COSTA
AÑO LECTIVO 2021-2022
AÑO LECTIVO 2021-2022
(WEEK 1)
TOPIC Technology Changes Cultures Worldwide

Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley

won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in
1956 for inventing the transistor

READING
Read the text and underline the verbs in past tense
The transistor: A New Era The transistor is an underappreciated invention that
changed the world forever. Believe it or not, it is the crucial component of an
electronic device. Our televisions, radios, cell phones, and computers work with
them. Televisions used to work with some tubes that were slow and used a lot of
energy. You may ask your grandparents how long televisions took to turn on about
70 years ago. Three people invented the transistor: William Shockley, John Bardeen
and Walter Brattain. Shockley started working in 1936 on the transistor. Although he
could successfully work out the theory, he could not build a working model in eight
years. Bardeen and Brattain helped him develop the model. Sometime later, Texas
Instruments of Dallas first started commercial production of junction transistors for
portable radios in 1954. The Sony Company of Japan soon acquired the right to
produce transistors and dominated the market. In the 1960’s, Sony began to
manufacture television sets using transistors instead of tubes. Afterwards, vacuum
tube technology became obsolete.
A transistor is like a miniature on-off switch that allows a computer to process
information.
A computer can’t operate without an integrated circuit (chip), and a chip can’t operate
without a transistor.
The first Intel computer chip had 2,300 transistors, while the latest one has 820
million.

ACTIVITY # 1:
Answer true (T) or false (F). If it is false write the correct statement.
1. Televisions have always worked with transistors. _____
2. Transistors are the key piece in every single electronic device. _____
3. William Shockley invented a working transistor. _____
4. Transistors were first used in portable radios. _____
5. The first company that created a device using transistors was Sony. _____

ACTIVITY # 2:
Answer the following questions. Underline the information on the text
1. What happened after Sony started using transistors in televisions?
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2. Why are transistors so important?
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