UNIT 3: POWERED TO THE PEOPLE

      Adjectives: Technology

• Adaptable: Something that is able to change for new situations
• Alternative: Something different from the usual or traditional way
• Innovative: Something that introduces new ideas
• Energy saving: Something that reduces the use of electricity
• Sustainable: Something that uses energy in a way that doesn't damage
• High-tech: Something that uses the most modern methods and machines
• Mechanical:  Operated by power from an engine
• Chemical: A product made by or used in a chemical process
• Computer-generated: Something produced by a computer programe
• Wireless: Broadcast
• Electronic: Devices, systems developed trough electronics

  
  Extra vocabulary

• Convert:  Change from one form, purpose or system to another
• Generate: Produce or create something else
• Run: Operate or function
• Store: Put something somewhere and keep it there to use later
• Develop: To teach a person the skills that are needed to do a particular job or activity
• Train: To cause to operate
• Support: To help someone emotionally or in a practical way
• Celebrate: To take part in special acitivties to show that an occasion is important

     Verbs: functions

• Process: Think about something
• Absorb: Taken in
• Crash: break something
• Boost: Rapidly increase
• Rest: Relax
• Repair: Fix
• Burn: Use up
• Perform: make, do
• Release: Let go of
• Transport: To carry something from one place to another.