Unit 8. Life in the future

Designed by Dương Thị Thanh Hà


Memory game
Observe all the pictures
and the words in them
in one minute and try to
remember the words
The team writing
down many
correct words in
the shortest
time
will be the



TERRORIST


SPACE SHUTTLE


WORKING ON COMPUTER


CAR


DIRTY ENVIRONMENT

WORKING ON
COMPUTER

TERRORIST

SPACE
SHUTTLE

CAR
DIRTY


HEALTHY FOODS
TERRORIST
WORKING ON COMPUTER
SPACE SHUTTLE
CAR
DIRTY ENVIRONMENT


Congratulations!


Do you think those things may happen
in the future? Tell me what you believe
and what you don’t believe


ARE YOU AN OPTIMIST?

Read each item. Check Agree or Disagree. Then add
By numbers.
the year 2030, …….
the
Agree
1. Many people will be jobless.
(5)
(10)
Disagree

2. People will live in space.
3. There will be a cure for AIDS .
4. Robots will work at factories and at homes.
5. There won’t be many big companies.
6. We’ll know how to grow food in the ocean.
7. The world will be too crowded.
8. There won’t be any rain forests.

(10)
(5)
(5)
(5)
(10)
(5)
(5)

(5)
(10)
(10)

(10)
(5)
(10)
(10)

If your total is from 40 to 60, you are a pessimist. If
your total is from 65 to 75, you are an optimist.

What will the life be like in the future?
Read the text !


period 44
-Textbook
pages 84 - 86)



Unit 8:

LIFE IN THE FUTURE

Part A: READING (Period 44 -Textbook pages 84 I. BEFORE YOU READ:
86)
New words:
- Depress [di'pres]
To Làm
makesuy
trade,
business,

giảm,
làm đìnhetc.
trệ
+ Depression
[di'pre∫n]
(v)
:
less active
Khủng hoảng kinh tế
+ Economic depression (n)
(n):
- Terrorism
Chủ nghĩa khủng
[‘terərizəm]
(n):
bố
a person
who takes
+ Terrorist ['terərist]
Kẻ khủng
bố part in
terrorism
(n):
- Optimist
[‘ɔptimist]
People
Ngườiwho
lạcalways
quan expect good things to
(n):Optimistic

+
happen
[ɔpti'mistik
- Pessimist ](adj)
Người
quan expect bad
People
whobialways
[‘pesimist](n)
things to happen
+
- Pessimistic[pesi'mist
Wipe out [waip]:
Be destroyed
or removed
Tẩy sạch, xóa
sạch
ik](adj
(v)
completely
Spacecraft
designed
used
- Space-shuttle [spei ∫ətl] (n):
Phi
thuyền to
con
thoifor travelling
between the earth and a space station.

U nit 8:

LIFE IN THE FUTURE -

Task 1

READING

Give Vietnamese or English equivalents to these words:

A
1. DEPRESSION
TERRORI
2. _________
SM
OPTIMI
ST
3. ________

B
Sự suy
thoái

_________________________________________________________

Chủ nghĩa khủng
bố
Người lạc quan
Phi thuyền con

thoi


Unit 8:

LIFE IN THE FUTURE

Part A: READING (Period 44 -Textbook pages 84 86)


Task 2: Scan the passage and make
brief note of the following points (5’).
LIFE IN THE FUTURE
FIELDS
Living
Work
Travel

OPTIMISTS
Cleaner environment,

PESSIMISTS


Suggested answers :
FIELD
S

OPTIMISTS

PESSIMISTS

Living

Cleaner environment; fresher
air; healthier foods; modern
medical system; laboursaving devices.

Terrorists : powerful &
dangerous.

Work

Micro technology; robots
work in factories; offices go
electronic; paper disappear;
people work from home;
computer linked to a head
office.

- Economic
depression;
- large corporations:
wiped out
- millions of jobs: lost.

Travel

- Space-shuttle technology
- cars: no petrol, run on from

electricity to methane gas,
fitted with computers.


Task 3:
Collecting
information: The
influences of
technology in
future life.


Work :
1.Factory:
2.Office :
3.People:

Travel
4. Space-

shuttle:

5.Cars

Take work , for instance. Robots will
do most of the work in factories , so
they will be cleaner places for
fewer people to work in them.
Offices, too, will go electronic with
the result that paper will almost

completely disappear. More people
will work from home on 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 up to
15,000 kph. Cars will still be with us
, but, in stead 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.


Take work , for instance.
Robots will
, so
1.Factory most of the work in do
they will be cleaner places for
factories
:
go in them.
fewerOffices
peoplewill
to work
electronic
with
2.Office :

More
will
work
from
the result
thatpeople
paper
will
almost
home
completely
disappear.
3.People: on computers linked
spaceto a head
shuttle
office.
As for
travel,
it is in
likely
technology
will
be used
normal
Travel
that
air travel
4. Spaceshuttle:
they will run
on anything

from
achieving
speeds
up to 15,000
electricity
to methane
gas.They
kph.
Cars will
still be with
us ,
5.Cars
will in
also
be fitted
with
but,
stead
of petrol,
computers .

Work :


After you read


Topic: Talk about your life in the future.
Suggested Cues:

-Work:
+ job
+ place to work
+ the salary
- house: a villa, a comfortable
house, ….
- travel: modern car, motorcycle,
space shuttle, airplane, …