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1 Some things won’t have changed Student’s Book p44 Grammar Future continuous Future perfect Function Discussing possible future lifestyles
Craig Cormick, of Biotechnology Australia, believes that people will live until they’re 120 thanks to advances in medicine. ‘The main difference between life now and then,’ he says, ‘is that doctors won’t be treating diseases any longer.’ Cormick sees a world where we’ll be able to wipe out disease by eating a banana. ‘We’ll be growing crops with vitamins and vaccines in them to prevent health problems.’
Pronunciation List intonation Vocabulary Technology Phrasal verbs with out
‘You’ll also be able to change the colour of your cat or dog. We can already carry out operations to put genes into rabbits and fish and make them glow,’ Cormick points out. ‘So it will be perfectly possible to create a glow-in-the-dark cat or a designer dog.’
Optional aids Warmer 1: a few objects which show change over time, eg an audio cassette, a CD and an MP3 player.
Nearly all researchers agree that wireless technology will have developed. Anything large enough to carry a microchip will have one. Scientists will have invented earrings which take our pulses, and glasses on which we watch videos. Instead of wristwatches, we’ll be wearing gadgets which will combine the functions of a phone, camera, MP3 player and computer. In the home, household equipment will have improved – there’ll be fridges which read the use-by date on milk cartons and order new milk when necessary. On the road, we won’t have got rid of cars, but we will have keyless electric cars which we can talk to.
Warmer 1 Past, present, future discussion: Bring in objects which illustrate change over time, eg an audio cassette, a CD and an MP3 player. Write the categories Past, Present and Future on the board and ask students under which category they would put each object. Students then work in small groups to try to think of other examples, speculating each time about the equivalent object of the future. Warmer 2 Game: Word race. In pairs students write lists of all the words they can remember for household equipment (eg fridge) and personal items of equipment (eg watch). They compare their lists and amalgamate them. The pair with the longest list in the class wins.
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The aim is to set the context for the reading. Ask the class if they think it is possible to predict the future accurately. They read the ‘bad’ predictions in the box and discuss with a partner what really happened. Students also discuss what they think life will be like in 2020, using the picture on the page for ideas.
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Students read and listen to the text and compare their own predictions with those of the experts. Encourage them to guess unfamiliar words from context. Clarify the meaning of pulse by showing a pulse point, eg wrist. Be prepared to translate wireless, vaccine and balance. Ask students how similar their own predictions were to the text and also what they learnt about items in the picture. Recording 2020 Vision
Earrings which read our pulse rates and glasses which show videos, or a life expectancy of 120, and cats that glow in the dark? Different experts have different views on how we’ll be living in 2020. Some things won’t have changed much – people will still have to work, but they’ll be working longer and retiring later. Other areas of our life will have changed completely.
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Will we get the balance right? Will we have created a bright new future, or will we all be living longer, but no more happily? Only time will tell.
3 Comprehension •
Students read the text again and answer the questions individually. Check the answers together as a class. Answers 1 People will still have to work. 2 No, they’ll be retiring later. 3 Diseases 4 It will contain vitamins and vaccines. 5 Wireless technology will have developed. 6 Gadgets which will combine the functions of phone, camera, MP3 player and computer. 7 They will read the use-by date on the cartons. 8 Keys Optional activities • Fast finishers can write new words from the text on cards with a definition or example sentence on the reverse for the Vocabulary box. • Ask students to close their books. Write one half of two-word expressions from the text on the left of the board, and the other half on the right in a jumbled order. Ask students to remember the combinations. Examples could include pulse rate, life expectancy, wireless technology, household equipment, use-by date, keyless cars, bright future, medical advances.