Tech Vocabulary
Modals in use
Emerging Life-Saving Tech
Medical Aid & Health Tech (Miscellaneous)
Future & Society
100

To enter a website or open a file, you need this.

What is access

100

You ___ wear a seatbelt in a car. (obligation)

What is must

100

This wearable device can check your heart rate and call for help.

What is a smartwatch

100

This portable device helps people with diabetes check their blood sugar.

What is a glucose monitor

100

Talking to a voice assistant like Siri or Alexa is an example of this.

What is artificial intelligence (AI)

200

This small file can be added to an email message.

What is an attachment

200

Students ___ use their phones during an exam. (permission/negative)

What is may not / cannot

200

Cars with these systems can automatically brake to prevent accidents.

What are self-driving / autonomous systems

200

his machine keeps people alive by helping them breathe in hospitals.

What is a ventilator

200

Technology that works almost like the real world but digitally.

What is virtual reality

300

This word means to look quickly at websites on the internet.

What is browse

300

This is a polite way to ask: “___ you open the window, please?

What is could

300

3D printers can now produce these objects to replace damaged human body parts.

What are prosthetics / organs?

300

Robots are used to do this type of very precise hospital work

What is surgery

300

A device that is implanted into the body to regulate heartbeats.

Waht is a "pacemaker"

400

This small file can be added to an email message.

What is a database

400

You ___ try the new medical app. It will help you a lot. (recommendation)

What is should

400

Drones are being used to deliver this equipment quickly to people having a heart attack.

What are defibrillators?

400

Vaccines are a form of this type of prevention

What is immunization

400

Listen and spell the word that refers to devices connecting the nervous system to artificial limbs.

What is N E U R O P R O S T H E T I C S.  Neuroprosthetics

500

If you look at a screen for too long without blinking, you do this.

What is stare at

500

The patient ___ have taken the wrong medicine. (perfect modal, past probability)

What is might / could

500

This technology used all over the world and not only for medicine can study X-rays and scans to detect diseases early.

What is artificial intelligence / machine learning?

500

Doctors can now meet patients using this type of online appointment.

What is telemedicine

500

Listen and spell the word that refers to preserving cells or tissues at very low temperatures. 

What is C R Y O P R E S E R V A T I O N. Cryopreservation