Discuss

• Which of the future technologies from the excerpts are of interest to you? Why?

• What other innovations would you like to see in your daily life in the future? Why?

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

Focus on the language

1. Check if you know the meaning of the phrases below. Give their Russian equivalents:

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

- светящаяся в темноте рубашка

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

2. Read the sentence from the text paying attention to the words: another and other(s). Which word 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.: Scientists will find ways to stop aging one way or another. The other + singular noun to mean ‘part of the set’ e.g.: Hold the beaker in one hand and the pipette in the other. 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 ‘more of the set/additional/some more’ e.g.: What are his other inventions? 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. Note *When other is used without a noun, it has –s in the plural. **Another way of substituting for the noun is to use other+ one or ones

Practice

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

a) Be careful, this chemical is poisonous. ____________ are poisonous too.

b) This book has a page missing. Please give me ____________.

c) Some metals are magnetic and ___________ aren’t.

d) I’m not surprised he’s feeling ill – he was eating one ice-cream after _________.

e) There’s no __________ work available at the moment.

f) Would anyone like __________ piece of cake?

g) Are you planning to take __________ trip to Himalayas?

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

i) 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.

Practice

1. Choose the correct form of the verb in brackets to complete the sentences.

1. Peter (is/is going to be) twenty next Friday.

2. Oh no! I've broken the container with poisonous substance. What (am I going to say / will I say)?

3. Jack (is having / will have) a dinner party next Saturday.

4. Ann (will be helping / will help) us to label the containers in the lab tomorrow afternoon.

5. By the time you arrive, I'll (have checked / be checking) the equipment for the experiment.

6. (I'll be studying / I'll have studied) at 9 tomorrow evening.

7. Look at those clouds! It (is going to rain / will rain)!

8. Save the data! It looks like the computer (is going to shut down/ will shut down).

9. I (will be using / will have been used) the microscope for two hours tomorrow.

10. By the time I’m 50 I (will have patented / will patent) a number of remarkable inventions!

Listening

1. Read and answer the questions in the chart below. Discuss your ideas as a class.

	You	Speaker 1	Speaker 2	Speaker 3
What will computers be like?
How will we communicate with computers?
Are we going to spend our whole time in Cyberspace?
Will computers be intelligent?

2. Check if you know the meaning of the following terms commonly used in IT. Give their Russian equivalents. Consult the dictionary if necessary.

Example: voice recognition system - system that can respond to the words spoken by a human being - cистема распознавания голоса /идентификации по голосу

tactile response systems fuzzy query input systems tactile gloves

neural-stimulus consciousness cyberspace navigation neural network

eye-tracking movement headgear

3. Listen to some students’ opinions about the role of computers and related technologies in the future. Fill in the chart above.

Discuss

• Which of the opinions do you agree with most? Why?

• Who of the speakers do you disagree with? Why?

What else???

Reading