Herramientas tecnológicas: Expresar cantidades

1- Technological tools

1.1- Introduction

The term technology tools refers to any software or hardware that helps you carry out a daily task, optimizing time and resources.

Technology tools allow the exchange of experiences, studies and research within organizations and their environment

 

All technological tools are important because they can help us not only in our learning processes but also in our everyday life. For example, if you travel by plane, from the moment that you start looking for a plane ticket to the moment that you are actually flying from one place to another, everything is done using technological tools. We use several technological tools every day without even noticing it. 

 

1.2- Types of technological tools

First of all, remember that both hardware and software can be technological tools, from our smart phones to all the applications normally use.

Technological tools can be classified in different ways:

a. Transcendence, for example the Internet, which is a massive tool, unlike a specific program that expands through the Internet, it will only have a target audience.

b. Free and paid. For example an application to edit videos, we find many of them free with certain limitations and also with a payment.

c. Functionality, for example we find a lot of softwares for education, management and processing of information.

 

 

2- Quantifiers

2.1- ¿Qué significa la palabra Quantifier?

Quantifier indica la cantidad de algo, pero a diferencia de los números, los quantifiers son cantidades sin determinar, se sitúan delante del nombre. Algunos se utilizan solo con nombres contables o no contables mientras que otros pueden utilizarse con ambos. 

Usamos quantifiers cuando queremos dar a alguien información sobre el número de algo.

 

Reminder Countable nouns: se pueden contar. Por ejemplo: One Smartphone, two smart phones, ten smart phones and so on. Uncountable nouns: no se pueden contar. Por ejemplo: sugar, I cannot say 2 sugars or 7 sugars, only sugar. Todos lo que viene en grano es uncountable como: rice, coffee, tea, sugar, salt. También líquidos como: water, oil, or vinegar.

 

2.2- Expresar Cantidades

 

Quantifier	Traducción	Tipo de oración	Uncountable or Countable Noun
Much	Mucho/a	– / ?	U
Many	Muchos/as	– / ? / +	C
A lot of (*)	Mucho/a, muchos/as	+ / – / ?	C U
Plenty of	Mucho, de sobra, más de lo que necesito	+	C U
All	Todos/ todo (para más de 2)	+ / ?	C U
Several	Varios	+	C U
C  = Countable     U = Uncountable
(*) A lot of = Lo sigue un sustantivo C o U. Lots of = informal

 

2.3- Examples