Presage Poll 2050

Questionnaire                                                                  

                                                                                                                                                               

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                                                                                                                   Category: Teacher/Student

                                                                                                                   Branch/Discipline

BY 2050

1. India will be relying heavily on nuclear power for energy needs and realize the usefulness of 123 agreement: probable/improbable

2. The renewable forms of energy will completely replace non-renewables by 2050:True/False

3. America will meet all its energy needs using Shale gas: probable/improbable

4. Yamuna and Ganga will be cleaner with Action Plans in place and working: true/false

5. Genetically Modified Crops will be globally ousted and Organic Farming will replace it:True/False

6.CSR and sustainability norms will save the world from ecological disasters: probable/improbable

7. All rivers in India will be connected: probable/improbable

8. In my opinion, the greatest advances (globally) will be made in the field of:

1. Mass Comm 2. IT  3. Mech Engineering 4. Civil Engineering 5. If (Any other) use the lines below to suggest____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9.By 2050 the greatest advances, in India, will be made in the field of:

1. SW engineering 2. Space Research 3. Defence Research 4. Civil Engineering 5.  If (Any other) use the space given to make your suggestion _____________________

10.In intermediate years, India will focus on this area the most:

1. Disaster management

2. Human Resource Development

3. Research & Education

4. Business and Commerce

5. Alternative sources of energy

11. The teacher will be replaced by automatons/ systems in near future

1.True  2. Highly improbable because___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

12. By 2050 India will:

1. be a superpower beating America, China et al

2. be a superpower rivaling US and China

3. rank better on Human Development Index

4. be as developed as a peaceful European country

13. By 2050 this world will be a:

1)utopia where everyone is equal and prosperous

2)dystopia where anarchy will reign

3)divided into two major warring camps

14. By 2050 humans will:

1. become immortal

2. cease to exist

3. invade extra-terrestrial spaces

4.have friendly-ties with extra-terrestrials

5. get cyborg enhancements

6.learn to live with humanoids

15. My design for future:

A. If I were to design something(SW/ instrument) with my team it will be_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

B. If I were to design an inter-disciplinary curriculum it would include (mention at least two subjects and discuss what may be expected from their convergence:______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

TeQuiz: Quiz to make you interested in the newspaper

Dear Students

HT says that to learn a new language , you must sing it aloud. But to encourage you to read HT or any other newspaper, I thought you need to go through this quiz just to realize the importance of newspaper reading first of all. 

TeQuiz: Quiz to make you interested in the newspaper

1. Which company has recently swallowed Satyam?

Tech Mahindra

2.Name the Japanese robot that can converse with humans who may assist astronauts in near future..

Kirobo

3. Which company’s online application Person Finder helped people to locate missing persons in Uttrakhand?

Google person finder in association with HILTRON or U Hill Electronic Corporation LTd with office at Rishikesh)

4.Which photo-sharing app allows users to send images which automatically ‘self-destruct’ after 10 seconds.

‘SNAPCHAT’ developed by Evan Spiegel and bobby Murphy(2011)

5. Which two rivals have recently collaborated for Cloud computing?

MS & Oracle for cloud computing

6.Which organization/undertaking in India has recently announced that it will train its drivers on simulators?

1. Tata 2. DTC 3. Indian AirForce  4. Indian Army

7.Which project is to be launched by the Indian Govt. that will emulate American surveillance system’PRISM’?

400 crore CMS project to track callers location

8.Regular phones can now access smartphone apps based on technology developed by:

1.An Israeli company Vasco De Co.

9. Which mobile phone company has recently offered free facebook messenger services?

Idea

10. What may usher in data revolution in India?

4G

11. According to a Wallstreet Journal report which co is working on service ‘Reader’ resembling ‘Flipboard’ that will bring Facebook content to mobile devices in the form of a newspaper?

Facebook

12. Why was Edward Snowden in news?

For disclosing highly classified NSA data.

13. What do we know Julian Assange for:

Wikileaks

14.Which company has launched balloons 20 km above earth’s surface to facilitate internet in the interiors?

It has earmarked New Zealand for the project.

Google

15.Which CEO remain ousted from his company for 11 years and joined back as interim CEO?

Steve Jobs

One word Substitutes

Brevity is the Soul of Wit- your writing should be brief but precise. It should be comprehensive but exact. One Word substitutes come handy here, especially in precis writing as a whole sentence may be replaced by an equivalent word or a phrase may be substituted with a single apt word.

One Word Substitution (from enableall.org)

1.	One who is out to subvert a government	Anarchist
2.	One who is recovering from illness	Convalescent
3.	One who is all powerful	Omnipotent
4.	One who is present everywhere	Omnipresent
5.	One who knows everything	Omniscient
6.	One who is easily deceived	Gullible
7.	One who does not make mistakes	Infallible
8.	One who can do anything for money	Mercenary
9.	One who has no money	Pauper
10.	One who changes sides	Turncoat
11.	One who works for free	Volunteer
12.	One who loves books	Bibliophile
13.	One who can speak two languages	Bilingual
14.	One who loves mankind	Philanthropist
15.	One who hates mankind	Misanthrope
16.	One who looks on the bright side of things	Optimist
17.	One who looks on the dark side of things	Pessimist
18.	One who doubts the existence of god	Agnostic
19.	One who pretends to be what he is not	Hypocrite
20.	One incapable of being tired	Indefatigable
21.	One who helps others Good	Samaritan
22.	One who copies from other writers	Plagiarist
23.	One who hates women	Misogynist
24.	One who knows many languages	Polyglot
25.	One who is fond of sensuous pleasures	Epicure
26.	One who thinks only of himself	Egoist
27.	One who thinks only of welfare of women	Feminist.
28.	One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain	Stoic
29.	One who is quite like a woman	Effeminate
30.	One who has strange habits	Eccentric
31.	One who speaks less	Reticent
32.	One who goes on foot	Pedestrian
33.	One who believes in fate	Fatalist
34.	One who dies without a Will	Intestate
35.	One who always thinks himself to be ill	Valetudinarian
36.	A Government by the people	Democracy
37.	A Government by a king or queen	Monarchy
38.	A Government by the officials	Bureaucracy
39.	A Government by the rich	Plutocracy
40.	A Government by the few	Oligarchy
41.	A Government by the Nobles	Aristocracy
42.	A Government by one	Autocracy
43.	Rule by the mob	Mobocracy
44.	That through which light can pass	Transparent
45.	That through which light cannot pass	Opaque
46.	That through which light can partly pass	Translucent
47.	A sentence whose meaning is unclear	Ambiguous
48.	A place where orphans live	Orphanage
49.	That which cannot be described	Indescribable
50.	That which cannot be imitated	Inimitable
51.	That which cannot be avoided	Inevitable
52.	A position for which no salary is paid	Honorary
53.	That which cannot be defended	Indefensible
54.	Practice of having several wives	Polygamy
55.	Practice of having several husbands	Polyandry
56.	Practice of having one wife or husband	Monogamy
57.	Practice of having two wives or husbands	Bigamy
58.	That which is not likely to happen	Improbable
59.	People living at the same time	Contemporaries
60.	A book published after the death of its author	Posthumous
61.	A book written by an unknown author	Anonymous
62.	A life history written by oneself	Autobiography
63.	A life history written by somebody else	Biography
64.	People who work together	Colleagues
65.	One who eats too much	Glutton
66.	That which cannot be satisfied	Insatiable
67.	One who questions everything	Cynic
68.	A flesh eating animal	Carnivorous
69.	A grass eating animal	Herbivorous
70.	One who lives in a foreign country	Immigrant
71.	To transfer one's authority to another	Delegate
72.	One who is a newcomer	Neophyte
73.	That which is lawful	Legal
74.	That which is against law	Illegal
75.	One who is unmarried	Celibate
76.	A game in which no one wins	Draw
77.	A study of man	Anthropology
78.	A study of races	Ethnology
79.	A study of the body	Physiology
80.	A study of animals	Zoology
81.	A study of birds	Ornithology
82.	A study of ancient things	Archaeology
83.	A study of derivation of words	Etymology
84.	Murder of a human being	Homicide
85.	Murder of a father	Patricide
86.	Murder of a mother	Matricide
87.	Murder of an brother	Fratricide
88.	Murder of an infant	Infanticide
89.	Murder of self	Suicide
90.	Murder of the king	Regicide
91.	To free somebody from all blame	Exonerate
92.	To write under a different name	Pseudonym
93.	A thing no longer in use	Obsolete
94.	A handwriting that cannot be read	Illegible
95.	Words written on the tomb of a person	Epitaph
96.	One who is greedy for money	Avaricious
97.	Something that cannot be imitated	Inimitable
98.	One who doesn't know how to read and write	Illiterate
99.	A person's peculiar habit	Idiosyncrasy
100.	An animal who preys on other animals	Predator
101.	Violating the sanctity of a church	Sacrilege
102.	One who can throw his voice	Ventriloquist

BTech Assignments:Topics for debate, discussion or declamation or even for composition

BTech Assignments

Apart from a Newspaper Scrap/ Book Review of any one of recent Bestsellers that has to be submitted at the semester end, the students are required to submit at least 2 written assignments and participate actively in 2 oral assignments.

Structure:

Book Review+ 2 written + 2 oral assignments
OR
Newspaper Scrap Book + 2 written + 2 oral assignments



To organize your ideas and compose a paragraph/essay/precis:

1. Identify.: What do you want to write on? Identify it.Describe it. Define and discuss the feelings, terms and ideas associated with it.

2. Express an opinion: express your take/assessment/view on the subject.

3. Comparing: compare it with similar objects/ideas. The comparison may be from the same time and setting or a different one. 

4. Describe: Analogies that were drawn are now discussed-similarities and differences underlined.

5. Express your preferences

6. Give reasons

7. Speculate: discuss the future scenario as predicted by your current knowledge.

Also, usually we 'Introduce', 'Discuss', 'Conclude' and 'Recommend' where paragraphs are written with a problem-solution structure.

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Following are the topics on which assignments may be submitted:

All students should attempt at least two oral and two written discussions:

Intellectual Property Rights(IPR)

Awareness of IPR has become quite important in a world economy thriving on Information Technology. Patent wars are fought in which the balance swings to the side of the developed world. Exclusion of the poor from the benefits of technological advancements is a repercussion; its resistance through 'reverse engineering' is equally to be censured. What is your take on the Patent Regime.

Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR)

People, Planet and Profit-this is the triple-bottomline of CSR. Explore the CSR plans of some major corporates and discuss how these corporates actually stand by their social commitment. 

Superstitions

Students read about various superstitions, and share superstitions from their own cultures. The lesson includes vocabulary review activities and discussion questions.

CLUs
What is the general impact of Change of Land Use (CLUs) laws in your opinion?

Disaster Management

Express your views on the recent disaster and things to be done to improve the situation with reference to the recent landslides. Answering the following question will help: Do you impute Uttrakhand landslides to:

1. An Act of God2. Land Use policies 3. Whims of Nature 4. Global Warming5. Man-made disaster with people and govt. equally responsible

Economy vs Environment:  

Is it alright to ease green norms for development projects?

Globalization 

Have we actually eliminated distances in the contemporary world? Consider:

SLAZENGER balls travel 50,000 miles before they arrive at Wimbledon because of complex assembly lines.

Snooping and Surveillance

Write by keeping PRISM and its Indian version the 400 crore project CMS in mind.

GPS:

Discuss GPS and advantages it may have for us. India is developing its own version of GPS. Discuss the need.

GM crops
Genetically Modified crops are posing threat to our health or are they as necessary as claimed?

AI
Can Intelligence be artificial or is AI a hoax?

What do you know of the Grandfather conundrum, Time-machine and wormholes. How we visualize space, time and relationships has changed.Comment.

Graffiti

Students read about graffiti. The lesson includes a vocabulary review and comprehension and discussion questions. An optional poster challenge is suggested.

Bullying

Students read a brief description about bullying and anti-bullying campaigns, such as Pink Shirt Day. They review related vocabulary and discuss different types of bullying.

Consumerism

Do you work hard to keep up with the Joneses? Students discuss the growing epidemic of consumerism in wealthy countries.

Extreme Sports

The X-Games is an extreme version of the Olympics. Are the sports of Generation Y really more dangerous than traditional sports like hockey?

Importance of Community

Happiness experts suggest having a third place outside of your home and workplace to belong to. Are some communities easier to crack than others?

Luck

Some people carry lucky charms. Others believe in positive vibes. 

Talent

Some people seem to be born with a gift. At least their mothers seem to think so! What were your students born to do?

Second Hand vs. New

Some people regularly upgrade to a new home, a new vehicle, or a new wardrobe for the whole family. Others prefer to purchase items second hand. Is there anything your students would only buy new?

Suburbia

The average American moves about 12 times in a lifetime. Are your students more suited to city or suburban life?

Music Piracy

Many people don't consider downloading music illegal. Which side of the Napster debate do your students fall on?

Your Name

Psychologists say your name is the sweetest sound you'll ever hear. Is it cruel to give a child a unique name?

Social Media

Keeping up with friends is easy with social media networks.

Skateboarding(alternatively you could write for your own favourite sport)

Students read a brief history of “skateboarding.” They review vocabulary and comprehension, learn and practice multiple adjective order, and guess the meaning of some fun “skater” lingo.

Nazca Lines

Students learn about the Nazca Lines, an official Wonder of the World. They learn several theories about the lines and work together to come up with some of their own theories.

The Fukushima Disaster

Students read a brief history of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. They practice related vocabulary and compare other historic disasters.

Hip Hop

Students learn the history behind this popular music genre and culture. They review important vocabulary and create their own rap

Hybrid Car

The idea of hybrid vehicles is not new. In the mid 1600s, a Jesuit priest worked on plans for a carriage that could either be pulled by a horse or run by steam.

The United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an international organization that works to preserve peace and help people around the world. Only a few nations do not belong to the organization.

Ice Cream

The history of ice cream goes back to ancient times. Ancient Greeks sold snow cones mixed with honey and fruit. The Roman Emperor, Nero, sent slaves to the mountains for the snow.