What do you think?

• Which technologies that you have read about are most likely to be implemented in future? Why?

• What other innovations do you expect to see in your daily life in the future? Why?

• What challenges do you think will the 21st century bring?

Focus on the language

1. Check if you know the meaning of the phrases below. Give their equivalents in your native language.

Example: glow-in the-dark sweatshirts – sweatshirts that glow in the dark

- рубашка , светящаяся в темноте

radio frequency identification	diagnostic sensors
a 1000 page safety manual	lower-tech cousins
blood pressure	blood sugar
self-heating hats	patrolling robots
hormone levels and immune system activity	a high-tech variation
	autonomous control

2. Read the sentence from the text paying attention to the words: another and other(s). Which words do they refer to?

• One platoon takes continuous readings of blood pressure in different parts of your body; another monitors cholesterol; still others measure blood sugar, hormone levels and immune system activity…

Another, other(s) and the other(s) Another + singular countable noun to mean ‘one more’ e.g. Could I have another book on this subject. to mean ‘alternative/besides this’ e.g. The scientists have started another experiment. The other + singular noun to mean ‘part of the set’ e.g. Hold the beaker in one hand and the pipette in the other. The other + plural noun to mean ‘the rest of the set’ e.g. She promised to bring the other books on AI development next week. Other + singular noun to mean ‘different from the item/person already mentioned’. e.g. Ask me some other time, when I’m not so busy. Other + plural noun to mean‘more of the set/additional/some more’ e.g. What are his other inventions? When other is used without a noun, it has –s in the plural. e.g. His favourite subjects were Maths, Physics, Computer Science and others. (other subjects) Another way of substituting for the noun is to use other+ one or ones e.g. This chemical is poisonous. Other ones are poisonous too.

Practice

1. Fill in the gaps in the sentences with another, other or others. Put the where necessary.

1. Be careful, this chemical is poisonous. ____________ are poisonous too.

2. This book has a page missing. Please give me ____________.

3. Some metals are magnetic and ___________ aren’t.

4. I’m not surprised he’s got a sore throat – he was eating one ice-cream after _________.

5. There’s no __________ work available at the moment.

6. Would anyone like __________ piece of cake?

7. Are you planning to take __________ trip to Himalayas?

8. __________ Internet sites on the subject of the project work were not reliable enough.

9. You shouldn’t expect ___________ to do your work for you.

3. The sentences below are all about the future. With a partner decide which

rule goes with which sentence.

• I definitely don’t believe people will ever live in giant space stations in order to solve the problem of overpopulation.

• People will be living in giant space stations in order to solve the problem of overpopulation.

• By the year 2050 people will have built several giant space stations in order to solve the problem of overpopulation.

• We are about to start building a giant space station in order to solve the problem of overpopulation.

• In 2010 we are going to start building a giant space station in order to solve the problem of overpopulation.

Present Simple and Present Progressive Future Simple and Future Progressive, and Future Perfect We use … to speak about future personal arrangements and fixed plans or firm intentions; we usually give the time, date and place We use … to say that something will be going on at a certain time in the future. We use … to make predictions when you don’t have ‘present evidence’, to describe a decision made at the moment of speaking or to talk about hopes, beliefs, promises, guesses, etc. We use … to say that something will have been completed by a certain time in the future. We use … to talk about the future but mostly when we talk about timetables, routines and schedules.