Unit 8. Life in the future

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Teacher: Doan Thi Huong Thao
Warm Up
Choose suitable sentences to fill in the following chart.
Higher living standard
More high buidings, more cars
More fresh air
More friendly people
More dangerous diseases
Labour-wasting
Economics, technology, science, medical systems and education are more developed.
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Saturday, November 12th, 2016
Unit 8: LIFE IN THE FUTURE
Lesson 1: Reading
In this unit
_Use the lexical items related to the topic “ Life in the future”
_ Read and guess the meaning of new words based on clues including pictures or surrounding words in contexts.
 _Note taking and comprehend the passage through answering the questions


New Words:
Healthy food ; /ˈhelθi- fuːd/(Ns)
Labour saving devices:  /ˈleɪbə(r)- ˈseɪvɪŋ- dɪˈvaɪs/ (Ns)
Terrorist: /ˈterərɪst/ (N)
Space shuttle: /speɪs- ˈʃʌt(ə)l/ (N)
Working on computer:
Robot: /ˈrəʊbɒt/(N)
Dirty environment: /ˈdɜː(r)ti- ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt/ (Ns)
Wipe out sth: /waɪp- aʊt/ (phr V)
Depression:  /dɪˈpreʃ(ə)n/ (N)
unit 8: Life in the futre
Period 1: reading
Terrorist
Dirty environment
Now, look at the pictures!
Healthy food
Labour saving devices
Working on computer
Now, look at the pictures!
Space shuttle
Robot
Now, look at the pictures!
What will life be like in the future? Different people have different answers to this question; some are pessimistic while others optimistic.
Things will be much worse than they are nowadays, pessimists say. The whole world will experience a period of economic depression. Many large corporations will be wiped out and millions of jobs will be lost. The security of the earth will be threatened by terrorism as terrorists will become more powerful and more dangerous. On the contrary, optimists believe that life will be far better than it is today. We will be living in a much cleaner environment, breathing fresher air and eating healthier foods. We will also be better looked after by a more modern medical system. Domestic chores will no longer be a burden thanks to the inventions of labour- saving devices.
For better or worse, it is certain that in the future some things will be very different. Developments in micro technology- computers and telecommunication are bound to have a huge influence on various aspects of our lives. Take work, for instance. Robots will do most of the work in factories, so they will be cleaner places for fewer people to work with them. Offices, too, will go electronic with the result that paper will almost completely disappear. More people will work from home o computers linked to a head office. As for travel, it is likely that space- shuttle technology will be used in normal air travel achieving speeds of up to 15,000 kph. Cars will still be with us,but, instead of petrol, they will run on anything from electricity to methane gas. They will also be fitted with computers to tell us how efficiently we are driving and if there is anything wrong on the road ahead.
Whatever we expect from the future, remember that progress has never moved in straight lines, and history is full of unexpected developments. However, we are confident that the future is is our hands, and it is our responsibility to contribute to bettering our own lives.
Task 1
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Optimists

. Economic depression

Pessimists

Terrorism

Wiped out

.Space shuttle

1. People who always expect good things to happen.
2. A period when there’s little economic activity and many people are poor or without jobs
3. People who always expect bad things to happen
4. The use of violent action in order to achieve political aims or force a government to act.
5. Be destroyed or removed completely.
6. Spacecraft designed to be used for traveling between the earth and the space station



Task 1: Find the words or phrases in the passage which have the following meaning:
Task 2
Look at four questions carefully
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 bring
about dramatic changes in different aspects of our lives?
Question 1
What will happen in an economic depression?
In an economic depression, many large corporations will be wiped out and many jobs will be lost.
Question 2
Why, according to pessimists, will the security of the earth be threatened?
The security of the earth will be threatened by terrorism as terrorists groups will become more powerful and more dangerous.
Question 3:
What will life be like in the future,
according to optimists?
People will be living in much cleaner environment, breathing fresher air and eating healthier foods. They will also looked after by modern medical system Domestic chores will no longer be burden thanks to the inventions of labor-saving devices.
Question 4
What are the most important factors that
will bring about dramatic changes in
different aspects of our lives?
They are developments in micro technology, computer and telecommunications.
Task 3
Will go electronic; paper will completely disappear; people will work at home at computers linked to a head office.
Will be largely run by robots, so there will be cleaner places with fewer people working in.
Cars won’t run on petrol; they will run on electricity or methane gas. Modern cars will be fitted with computers to tell us how we are driving and weather there is something wrong ahead or not. Space shuttle technology will be used in normal air travel with the speed of 15,000 kph
Task 3: Complete the notes about how technology will influence our life in the future
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of robots
Advantages
Disadvantages
_ Save labor, lighten our work.
_ Do difficult/ hard jobs, so that
man have more time to enjoy life
or do more creative work
_ Replace human beings in many fields, so many people will lose their jobs or go jobless.
_ People become more dependent on robots we can’t work properly when the power is off or when robots stop working
Are you an optimist or a pessimist ?
Complete the survey with the correct verbs in the box

( You will use “be” in 5 sentences) then take the survey.
Read each item. Check ( √ ) Agree or Disagree.
Then add the numbers. By the year 2040,……
Be, Know , Live, Work
Game
There won’t …… many big companies.
We’ll…….. how to grow food in the ocean.
The world will…..too crowded.
There won’t ……any rain forests.
Many people will………jobless.
People will……in space.
There will……a cure for cancer.
Robots will….....at factories and at homes.
Agree Disagree
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Total _________+__________
Total from 40 to 65, you are a pessimist.
Total from 65 to 75, you are an optimist
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Homework
Learn by heart new words.
Write a paragraph about advantage or disadvantage
Practice retelling the passage
Do exercises Part reading in your workbook.
Prepare speaking lesson
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