People will be living in much cleaner environment, breathing fresher air and eating healthier foods4. They will also be better looked after by modern medical system.[r]
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Trang 2Word Scramble
1 ODOF
2 NIEVRISTYU
3 ECTHNLOOGY
4 NITU
5 OOBRT
6 NVIRONMENTE
F OOD
U NIVERSITY
U NIT
R OBOT
E NVIRONMENT
Trang 3Wednesday, November 11th 2009
Unit 8: Life in The Future
A Reading
Trang 4Before - Reading
Trang 5Do you think our life will be
better? Why? Why not?
Before-Reading
List three things that might happen in the future.
Trang 6- Optimistic [ɔpti'mistik](a): Lạc quan
- Pessimistic [,pesi'mistik] (a): Bi quan
- Terrorism ['terəriz ə m](n): Sự khủng bô
-Contribute to [kən'tribju:t](v): Đóng góp
cho
- Economic depression [,i:kə'nɔmik]
[di'pre∫n ]: Thời kyy suy giảm kinh tê
- Wipe [waip] (v): Xóa sạch (quét sạch)
- Labour-saving devices ['leibə,seiviη] [di'vais]: Thiêt bị tiêt kiệm sức lao động
- Micro technology (n) ['maikrə]
[tek'nɔlədʒi]: Công nghệ vi mô
Trang 7Finding out words or phrases which have the
following meanings
1 People who always expect bad things to happen
2 People who always expect good things to happen
3 A period when there’s a little economic activity and many people are poor or without
jobs
4 The use of violent action in order to achieve political aims or to force a government to
act
5 Be destroyed or removed completely
6 Spacecraft designed to be use for travelling between the earth and a space station
Pessimists Optimists
Economic depression
Terrorism
Be wiped out
Space-shuttle
Trang 9Answering questions
1 What will happen in an economic
depression?
2 Why, according to pessimists, will the
security of the earth be threatened?
3 What will life be like in the future,
according to optimists?
4 What are the most important factors
that will brings about dramatic changes
in different aspects of our lives?
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1 Many large corporations will be wiped out and
millions of jobs will be lost.
2 The security of the earth will be threatened by
terrorism as terrorist groups will become more powerful and more dangerous.
3 People will be living in much cleaner environment, breathing fresher air and eating healthier foods They will also be better looked after by modern medical system Domestic chores will no longer be burden thanks to the inventions of labor-saving devices.
4 They are developments in micro technology
Trang 12Read the passage again and find out details which describe
the new aspects of life
in the future
Trang 13Factories
will
be run by
robots
The influences of technology in future life
Offices will
go electronic
Many people will work from home
Cars could run
on electricity or methane gas and fitted with computers
Travelling by space-shuttle
is very fast (at 15,000kms per hour )
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HOMEWORK: