Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 12 unit 8: Life in the future

Look at the pictures and imagine what will happen in 20 years.
Robots

Robots will do housework

A computer

Robots will work as a teacher

The moon


Task 1: Look at the pictures and use the words given to say what
will have happened by the end of the 21st century.

People / live / at least 100.

By the end of the 21st century, people will have lived at least 100.


People / travel to other
planets / on their
holiday.

Chinese
astronauts /
land / on
Mars.

Robots / do all
housework.

The oldest world
citizen /
celebrate / her
(his) 150th
birthday.

car / run / on
sea water

No accidents /
happen / in our
country.

Vietnamese
people / not / use
drug.

The new city / open / on
the moon.


Chinese astronauts / land / on Mars.

The new city / open / on the moon.

- Chinese astronauts will have landed on Mars by the end of the 21st century.
- The new city will have opened on the moon by the end of the 21st century.

People / travel to other planets / on their holiday.

Robots / do all
housework.

- By the end of the 21st century, people will have traveled
to other planets on their holiday.
- Robots will have done all housework by the end of the 21st century.


The oldest world citizen / celebrate /
her (his) 150th birthday.

car / run / on sea water

- The oldest world citizen will have celebrated her 150th birthday
party by the end of the 21st century.
- There will have been a car running on sea water by
the end of the 21st century.


No car accidents / happen /
in our country.

Vietnamese people / not / use drug.

- No car accidents will have happened in our country by the end of
the 21st century.

- By the end of the 21st century, Vietnamese people won’t have used drug.


Task 2: Discuss whether these predictions are likely / unlikely to happen .
-Do you believe ……?/ Do you think ………..?
-Why do you think so?/ Why not?
-What are the reasons for this?
- Because of + NP
Suggestions of reasons

People / live /
at least 100.
A: Do you think it’s likely that people will
have lived at least 100 by the end of the
21st century?
B: Yes, I do.
A: Why do you think so?
B: Because the living standard will have been
improved.

Likely

- Living standards improved.
- Cures for fatal diseases found.
- Developments of science and
technology.
- Aware of the danger of using it.
- Road widened.
- ………………….

- More and more diseases.
- Too far from the earth.
Unlikely - too costly.
-just impossible
- no water
- ……………………………….


Task 3: Imagine your life by the end of 2020.
Example:
- I think by the end of 2020, I will have been very rich.

Useful language
-be successful
- be/ get married
-children
-Be single
-Job
-House
-Car
-………


HOMEWORK
 Write a short paragraph ( about 50 words ) about what your
life will be like in 2020.
 Prepare lesson C: Listening.