Exercises

Exercise 1. Open the brackets using the verbs in the Future Simple Tense.

1. I want to get a medical checkup. I (to go) to my doctor tomorrow. 2. He (to give) me a complete examination. 3. The nurse (to lead) me into one of the examination rooms. 4. I (to take) off my clothes and (to put) on a hospital gown. 5. Dr. Setton (to come) in, (to shake) my hand, and (to say) "hello". 6. I (to stand) on his scale so he can measure my height and my weight. 7. He (to take) my pulse. 8. Then he (to take) my blood pressure. 9. After he takes my blood pressure, he (to take) some blood for a blood analysis. 10. He (to examine) my eyes, ears, nose, and throat. 11. He (to listen) to my heart with a stethoscope. 12. Then he (to take) a chest X-ray and (to do) a cardiogram (EGG or EKG). 13. After the checkup I (to go) home and (to wait) for Dr. Set-ton's call. 14. Dr. Setton (to call) me tomorrow after­noon and (to say) to me: "Stop worrying! Your blood analysis is excellent." He is a very good doctor.

Reading

1. Read the text.

A Futurologist Thinks That…

Long before the year 2000, the entire antiquated structure of degrees, exams and credits will be discarded. No two students will be taught in exactly the same way.

In the educational world of tomorrow the centralized work place will also become less important. Just as economic mass production required large numbers of workers to be assembled in factories, educational mass production required large numbers of students to be assembled in schools. This itself, with its demands for uniforms, discipline, regular hours, atten­dance checks and the like, was a standardizing force. Advanced technology will in the future, make much of this unnecessary. A good deal of education will be conducted in the student's own room at home or in a dorm (=hos­tel), at hours of his own choosing. Vast libraries of data (=information) will be used by students through a computerized information retrieval system. With his own tapes and video units, his own language laboratory and his own electronically equipped study room he will be freed, for much of the time, from the unpleasantness of the classroom.

Vocabulary

to discard - отбрасывать

to require – требовать, нуждаться

demand – требования

vast - обширный

a computerized information retrieval system - система получения информации через ЭВМ

2. Answer the questions to the text.

1. Have you ever asked yourself why people who want to study have always been brought together since the earliest times? Give all the possible reasons you can think of.

2. How were students always taught? By whom were they taught? What were the functions of a teacher? Can a teacher be replaced by a ma­chine?

3. Do you think that the educational world of tomorrow will be greatly changed? Why?

4. Com­puters will no doubt be used in education more than they are used today. Will the character of studies be changed by computers? Will a large part of a stu­dent's time be freed? Give your reasons.

3. Please, point out the verbs in Future Simple.

4. Give a short summary of the text in English.