📚 9 Must-Know “Technology” Terms for IELTS Exam!🤎

1️⃣ Device

🤎 Meaning: A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment. It is usually quite small.

🤎 Example: A FitBit is a device that helps people improve their health by tracking their activity, exercise, food, weight, and sleep.

2️⃣ Labour-saving device

🤎 Meaning: A device or piece of equipment that reduces the effort needed to do something.

🤎 Example: The labour-saving device I’m most grateful for is my washing machine.

3️⃣ Gadget

🤎 Meaning: A small mechanical or electronic device or tool, often ingenious, novel, or fun as well as being useful.

🤎 Example: Paulo is always buying the latest gadget to go with his digital camera.

4️⃣ User-friendly

🤎 Meaning: Simple to understand and easy to use.

🤎 Example: I didn’t find my new mobile phone user-friendly at first, but my grandson was able to show me how to use it, and now I understand what to do.

5️⃣ Microchip

🤎 Meaning: A very small piece of silicon with electronic circuits on it that can hold large quantities of information or perform mathematical and logical operations.

🤎 Example: One of the greatest technological breakthroughs of modern times was the development of the microchip.

6️⃣ The digital age

🤎 Meaning: The time since personal computers were introduced and became central to people’s lives.

🤎 Example: I envy people born in the digital age as they’ve grown up with computers and seem to find it easier to adapt to new technologies than us older generations.

7️⃣ AI (artificial intelligence)

🤎 Meaning: The development of computers or computer-controlled robots to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence.

🤎 Example: Although AI is still largely confined to science fiction, some people believe there will come a time when computers will rule the world.

8️⃣ Electronic

🤎 Meaning: A device that operates by electric current passing through it.

🤎 Example: Electronic games are extremely popular with both adults and children.

9️⃣ Appliance

🤎 Meaning: Typically a piece of electrical equipment, such as a kettle or toaster, that uses less advanced technology.

🤎 Example: Modern kitchen appliances make cooking and baking much easier than they would have been 100 years ago and save so much time.