Technology
Technology verbs
Life events
Containers and materials
Accidents and injuries
100

You can record your voice with this.

What's a microphone?

100

 to raise or increase by turning a control (for example: volume)

What's to turn up?

100

to find work in order to earn money

What's to get a job?

100

a very common light, strong substance produced by a chemical process and used for making many different things

What's plastic?

100

to break the surface of something, or to divide or make something smaller, using a sharp tool, especially a knife: 

What's to cut?

200

You can write an email with this.

What's a keyboard? 

200

turning off a computer system

What's to shut down?

200

to teach a child at home rather than sending him or her to school:


What's homeschool?

200

a chemical element that is a light silver-coloured metal.

What's aluminium?

200

When something or someone separates from the thing to which it was attached and moves towards the ground. 

What's to fall off?

300

You use this to go on the internet. 

What's Wi-Fi?
300

to connect to a computer system by putting in a particular set of letters or numbers:

What's to log in?

300

to come out of a mother's body, and start to exist:

What's to be born?

300

a closed metal container with round sides, for food or drinks

What's a can?

300

When you accidentally slide and lose your balance. 

What's to slip?

400

A computer can carry around.

What's a laptop?

400

to move higher or lower through text or graphics on a computer (usually to display parts that do not fit on the screen)

What's to scroll up or down?

400
To have a sabbatical year when you finish school
What's to take a year out?
400

a hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and lime and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles.

What's glass?
400

When you knock your foot against something and fall or nearly fall. 

What's to trip over?

500

A device that's got a touch screen.

What's a tablet?

500

to connect a piece of equipment to an electricity supply or to another piece of equipment

What's to plug in?

500

to stop working, especially when you reach the age when you are officially too old to work


What's to retire?

500

a box made from thick cardboard, for storing goods, or a container made from cardboard or plastic, in which milk or fruit juice, etc. is sold:

What's a carton?

500

When something is destroyed or damaged because of fire.

What's to burn?

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