Unit 08 life in the future reading

Topic : This is means of transportation. It is a new invention

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Vocabulary:
1. an optimist : a person who always expects good things
to happen. : người lạc quan
 optimistic (adj)
: lạc quan
2. a pessimist ≠ an optimist : người bi quan
 pessimistic (adj)

: bi quan

3. depression (unc.)

: tình trạng suy thối

4. a terrorist

: tên khủng bố


dishwasher
vacuum cleaner

washing machine

What do you call
them?


Vocabulary:
1. an optimist : a person who always expects good things
to happen.
: người lạc quan
 optimistic (adj)
: lạc quan
2. a pessimist ≠ an optimist : người bi quan
 pessimistic (adj)

: bi quan

3. depression (unc.)

: tình trạng suy thối

4. a terrorist

: tên khủng bố

5. labour – saving devices : các thiết bị tiết kiệm sức
lao động


Read the information in the table. Guess whether
they belong to optimists or pessimists
Optimists Pessimists
1. Things will be much worse
than they are
2.nowadays.
Life will be far better than it is
today.



3. The whole world will experience
a period of economic
depression.
4. Domestic chores will no
longer be a burden.
5. The security of the earth will
be threatened by terrorism.









Task 1: Match the words in column A with their
definitions in column B
A
B
a.
People
who
always
expect
bad
things
1. wiped out
to happen.
2. pessimists b. Be destroyed or removed completely.
3. economic c. Spacecraft designed to be used for
traveling between the earth and a
depression
space station.
4. space –
shuttle

d. The use of violent action in order to
achieve political aims or to force a
government to act.

5. terrorism

e. A period when there’s little economic
activity and many people are poor or
without jobs.


Task 2: Answer the following questions.
1. Who will become more powerful and dangerous
according to pessimists?
2. Why will domestic chores no longer be a burden?
3. What are the most important factors that will bring
about dramatic changes in various aspects of our
lives?
4. How fast will space – shuttle technology be used in
normal air travel?
5. What will happen in an economic depression?


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Unit 8: Life in the future

Answer the questions
1. Who will become more powerful and
dangerous, according to pessimists?

 Terrorist groups


Unit 8: Life in the future

Answer the questions
4. How fast will space – shuttle technology be
used in normal air travel?

 Speeds of up to 15,000 kph.


Unit 8: Life in the future

Answer the questions
3. What are the most important factors that will
bring about dramatic changes in various
aspects of our lives?

 Developments in micro technology –
computers and telecommunication

Unit 8: Life in the future

Answer the questions
5. What will happen in an economic depression?

 Many large corporations will be
wiped out and millions of jpbs will be
lost.


Unit 8: Life in the future

Answer the questions
2. Why will domestic chores no longer be a
burden?

 Thanks to the inventions of labour –
saving devices.


Congratulations!


Congratulations!


Congratulations!

Answer
1. Who will become
keys
more powerful and dangerous according to
pessimists?
 Terrorist groups
2. Why will domestic chores no longer be a burden?
 Thanks to the inventions of labour – saving devices.
3. What are the most important factors that will bring about
dramatic changes in various aspects of our lives?
 Developments in micro technology – computers and
telecommunication.
4. How fast will space – shuttle technology be used in normal air
travel?
 Speeds of up to 15,000 kph.
5. What will happen in an economic depression?
 Many large corporations will be wiped out and millions of
jobs will be lost.


Discuss the following question
What technologies will influence our life in
the future? How will they effect?


-- Space
– shuttle: travelling by
computers:
space-shuttle will be
very fast and

convenient

people will work from home
-more
electricity:

on computers linked to a head
cars
couldwill
runbeonrun
electricity
- Robots:
factories
by
robots
office


 Learn by heart new words
 Do exercises:
+ task 3 in your textbook
+ part reading in your workbook
 Prepare speaking lesson