Unit 8. Life in the future

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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4
3
7
5
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1
New Words:
Healthy food ;
Labour saving devices:
Terrorist:
Space shuttle:
Working on computer:
Robot:
Dirty environment:
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!
A

B

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:
Look at four questions carefully
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 bring about dramatic changes in different aspects of our lives?
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Question 1
What will happen in an economic depression?
A. In an economic depression, many large corporations will be wiped out and many jobs will be lost.
Congratulations!
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.
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
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 2030,……

Be, Know , Live, Work
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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(10)
(10)
(5)
(5)
(10)
(5)
(5)
(10)
(5)
(10)
(10)
(10)
(5)
(5)
(10)
Total _________+__________
Total from 40 to 65, you are a pessimist.
Total from 65 to 75, you are an optimist
be
know
be
be
be
live
be
work
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