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‫Let's move on to some key vocabulary for talking and writing about computers and technology.

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‫Here is the vocabulary list, beginning with innovative.

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‫Device.

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‫Breakthru.

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‫Cutting edge.

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‫Gadget.

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‫Wireless, social media and viral.

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‫So here we have some key terms for talking about computers and technology, and I think it's really

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‫important that you really know these eight pieces of vocabulary here, because talking about computers

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‫and trends in technology is something that is going to be very important to you.

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‫And I'm sure that you're going to see some of this in your child's test, too.

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‫So let's move on to the first piece of vocabulary, which is innovative.

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‫If something is innovative, it is an original idea.

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‫It can often solve a problem.

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‫It's building on something to improve it.

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‫There are many innovative technologies that make our life easier.

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‫The iPhone is an innovative device that has many different uses and functions.

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‫I think it's fair to say in the last 10 years, we have seen a lot of innovative technology that people

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‫are now using.

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‫Next up, we have device.

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‫Now, this is a word that is being used a lot more in recent years, a device used to just be a few

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‫things, possibly a phone.

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‫But now we have devices for everything that telling the time for fitness, for our phones, for the

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‫televisions, a device or devices.

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‫Since 2012, many devices now have a very high level of connectivity, so I've highlighted this this

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‫piece of vocabulary, connectivity and connectivity means when things can connect to each other.

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‫So device to device, for example, a phone to a speaker via Bluetooth, or it could also mean connectivity

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‫to the Internet.

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‫Most pieces of technology we buy now have some level of connectivity.

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‫The most useful device I have at home is my running watch, which tracks my exercise.

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‫Next up, we have breakthrough, a breakthrough is an expression used to describe something that has

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‫been achieved at an innovative invention that was a breakthrough.

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‫It took a lot of time, but there was a breakthrough and something happened.

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‫Let's take a look at the examples technology has led to many breakthroughs in healthcare and hospitals.

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‫Many consider smart TVs to be quite a big breakthrough in home devices, breakthrough and an innovative

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‫invention.

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‫Here we have this idiomatic expression, cutting edge, we're not actually cutting anything, but when

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‫we describe something as being cutting edge, it means to be at the height of technology.

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‫The train system in Seoul really is cutting edge compared to my hometown.

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‫Apple are at the cutting edge of technology and design, many wonderful devices, cutting edge the height

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‫of technology.

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‫And here we have the word gadget, a gadget is a noun given to something to make our lives easier.

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‫My father was very into his gadgets and spent many hours traveling to local gadget shows.

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‫Here I've got the word into highlighted, it sounds strange, but if you say someone is into something,

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‫for example, David is into football, it means that he likes it or they like something.

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‫For example, I'm not into gadgets.

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‫I don't like gadgets.

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‫Just a very negative sounding way of saying like something.

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‫I don't really have many gadgets at home.

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‫OK, let's move on to wireless.

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‫This is a very common word that we hear these days, wireless.

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‫There are no cables involved to connect to something.

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‫I remember when I was a child, the Internet wasn't wireless and needed a cable.

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‫At many homes, people have a wireless network to connect to the Internet throughout their homes.

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‫I've highlighted the collocation wireless network, it's a very negative sounding expression, a wireless

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‫network for the Internet.

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‫Next up, we have social media, and I would assume that most people know this phrase, social media

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‫applies to Internet companies that want us to message each other and find news such as Facebook and

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‫Instagram.

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‫Some people believe that social media causes a lot more problems than it solves.

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‫Recently, I have been trying to limit the amount of time I spend on social media.

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‫Social media definitely a popular topic in that sphere, topic of technology.

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‫OK, let's move on to our next piece of vocabulary, which is viral.

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‫And I assume many people also know this word, but viral is something that's very, very quickly rises

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‫to huge popularity on the Internet.

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‫A viral means those pictures that you see, your viral videos often of people falling over, of things

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‫such as that.

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‫Let's take a look at some examples.

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‫Many viral images are designed to make people laugh.

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‫A friend's video went viral on Facebook and had over 100000 views overnight.

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‫Here's the highlighted term went viral.

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‫So when we talk about something that became viral previously, we use the verb went and we can also

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‫use the present tense and go, I want this video to go viral.

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‫The video went viral.

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‫Okay, that brings us to the end of this list of essential vocabulary for computers and technology.

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‫Try and use them in your own sentences, write them down.

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‫Think about any interesting synonyms for them.

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‫See you in the next lesson.