Kate

My Speech

//(Kate acting like a robot…)// beep beep beep problem…… problem (BANG) Nah that’s not going to work my robot isn’t going to do my speech for me I guess I’ll have to do it myself.Do you ever wonder about the future? Do you ever think about the past? Can you imagine life without ipods, cell phones , computers or even T.V.Well when my parents thought about the future they didn’t in their wildest dreams imagine a lot of these things. **So --- let me tell you about how I see technology in the future.** It’s a really hard thing to do because things in technology are changing so quickly these days. Lets look at how we communicate. My parents tell me that when they were younger and went overseas the only way of communicating with home was by writing postcards or letters. Phone calls were REALLY expensive and there was no such thing as e-mail. If someone had told them then that they would be able to speak to their children on the other side of the world through a computer – and see them on the screen at the same time – and all for FREE on Skype they would have just laughed and said to that person that they had been watching too many cartoons or science fiction movies…… and yet we spoke to my brother who is in Germany on the computer just last night! The computer chip has really changed our lives. Even in my life time consider how we are entertained….. we kids all grew up watching old video tapes of Barney – or The wiggles. Video tape players are a thing of the past and it is all now and its all called “digital” and is on DVD’s or blue ray. Even “My Sky” has changed the way we watch and record TV. What about how we listen to music? Does anyone know what this is? //( Hold up a record)// It is a record or LP (Dad says that stands for “Long player”) It has about 20 songs on it … players on a turntable and certainly is not something you can go running with. About 20 years ago someone invented “the walkman” //(hold up a walkman)// which was considered amazing – it was a little tape deck that you could walk or run with…but it still only had about 20 songs on it. Compare that to this //(hold up an i-pod)// This stores thousands of songs, movies – even books- and can fit into my pocket! lots of people would have just laughed if someone had told them about i-pods 20 years ago. So what will future technology offer us guys? How does this sound? You could wear something on your wrist that was able to tell your heart rate, your exact positioning the world using GPS, plays music and movies, sends and receives emails and can browse the internet. Sounds pretty cool eh! Well let me tell you – the technology has developed so fast that such a device already exists! The future of technology is now…. And if I tried to describe something to you that probably will be common in 5 or 10 years you would probably just laugh – like my parents did, and tell me I have been watching way too many cartoons or science fiction movies!

My goal is; To use adverbs, adjectives and interesting words to create mental images in my story.

On Patrol One day I was out on patrol at the supermarket just looking around for any mischief. All of a sudden I saw a teenager sifting through a ladies handbag. “Hey!” I yelled out. Then out of nowhere came this crazy supermarket worker telling me “grab that teenager and take him to jail!” Just as the supermarket worker was yelling at me, the teenager made a run for it. “AAaahhh,” he screamed but then a lady threw a big bottle of fizzy at the boy. He tripped and hit his head on a box of washing powder. “Owww!” he spat. “you’re in big trouble”, I said. “But..but...” “No buts,” I said, “Come on, you’re coming with me.” “Yay, go officer Jim” everyone yelled. When we got to the police station the teenager kept telling me that he accidently put his hand in the lady’s handbag. “Yeah right,” I thought,”you’re going to jail for 2 weeks” I said to him. “Oooaaahh,” he wined. I put him in a cell and went back out on patrol.