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    Future forms + Shades of meaning + Future in the past + Phrasal verbs: literal and metaphorical + Technology idioms + Sounds and spelling: homophones t Tedunlenyenibeom ber fier) end secbe te bineetiie party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our ability to have a thought ora daydream, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the ‘cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. (steven Spieler (045) Fim dec Future forms 1 Names and uses Match the names of the future forms in A with a sentence in Band. their uses in C. Sometimes a form has more than one use, A c Present Continuous Future in the past 1 The lecture starts/wil start at ten oclack. 2 Tm going to study engineering at university Present Simple hope 4 3 eel dizy. thnk Im going to faint walls efnitve 1s throw yout enjoy the party. going to + infinitive | 5 Yim meeting Tom for coffee. Future Continous | 6 Willyoube seeing Sly fornch a usual? futur Perect | 7 Dont callat700—Tlbe getting ready to go out 8 Mlealltomorrow morning if you tke 9 We were gong to have a picnic, but trained 10 Theyil have decorated the whole house by May a anarrangement between people b aplaned intention a spontaneous intention 6a timetabled) future fact asimple prediction F apreciction based on strong present evidence 8. anaction which wl be completed before a definite time h the future seen from a point inthe past i afutueactity which willbe in progres ata certain tine |. anaction that will happen in the normal couse of events 2. Shades of meaning ‘Underline the future form which is most appropriate, 1 Scientist and futurologist Ray Kurzweil predicts that a computer will exhibit will have exhibited intelligent behaviour equal to that of a human by 2029, on 2 In 1990 he predicted that a computer wus going to defeat/would defeat a world, | 9) chess champion by 1998 (an IBM computer defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997), )/ 3. He believes that in 15 years’ time computers can/will be able to make jokes, | tell stories, and even flirt. 4 In order to do this, computers will have had to/will be having to read and. absorb everything on the web. 5. When they have read/will have read everything on the web they are able tof will be able to engage in intelligent dialogue. 6 A hear the professor is giving/gives a lecture on Friday evening. Will you go/Will you be going? B_ Yes, I'm going/I'll go. It starts/will start at seven odlock. I'll see/ Tim going to see you there. A. Great! I'll give/T'm going to give you a lift if you like. Ray Kurzweil | Unit I + Our high-tech world 75 3 Other future expressions The expression be to, be due to, be about to can also express the future. Look t these sentences 1) Which formal news eepor? Which means ‘very closein time’? Which means expected? a. The txiis due (to arrive) in 20 minutes. The President is to make a tate vist to London next March. im about to lose patience with you. 2. What other future forms coud replace the expressonsina-c? Note the efferent shades of meaning 3. Complete the sentences with the verbs below. Use be fo, bbe due to, or be about fo and one other possible future form. begin land leave meet lose offer (passive) 1. The next train to Birmingham New Street is due to leave /leaves_from platform 8 in five minutes. We apologize for the delay to this service. 2 So your plane —___/ at 6.207 Fine, John and I will be waiting for you in Arrivals 3. EU ministers____/ in Brussels next week to discuss the worldwide monetary ct 4 Turn off your phone! The show 5. Allover-60s vaccinations this winter, additional flu 6 Not again! |__/____ my temper with this computer. The screen keeps freezing, My mum says Ill soon be too old for ry friend, but she’s got lots on Facebook. anima 76 Unit Il + Our high-tech world 4. Future in the past Use the verb in brackets to complete the sentences in an appropriate form to express the future in the past. 1 His mum didnt worry when Jack went on holiday ‘with all his mates. She knew he would behave (behave) sensibly. 2. The traffic warden ticket, but I persuaded him not to. 3 The lecture began badly. hoped it. (get) better, but it just got worse and worse. (give) mea i! Last time I saw you, you (emigrate) to Canada? Did you? 5. My brother’ train 18.05, but it was cancelled. 6 1 just (complain) when our meal finally arrived. (arrive) at 7 Can you explain again how you did this on your computer? You (show) me when ‘we were rudely interrupted 8 Becky! Oh dear! I forgot you (come) to supper. I haven't got a thing to eat. Never ‘mind, Come in, Listening 5. The future from the past ee jortds conte! £ 1 You are going to listen to the beginning of a plenary session at the Future Worlds Conference in the US. The speakers talk about predictions for the future made by these people in the past. ‘A an engineer in 1900 B_ a feminist writer in1929 schoolchildren in 1968 Who (A, B or C) said that in the future we would ...? 1 be able to fly to work 2. fly to the moon for a pic 3 have fresh fruit and vegetables all year round 4. swallow a pill instead of a meal 5 have no carsin city centres. 6 spend less time on cooking and housework 7 live in underwater bubble homes 8 grow giant strawberries __ 9 have more equality of the sexes 10 send digital photos wirelessly worldwide 11 all walk about ten miles a day 12 be travelling in hover cars by 2068 @ Listen and check your ideas. Correct any you got wrong, 3 @ Listen again. Mark these sentences true (V) or false (X). Correct the false ones. A John Elfreth Watkins ... 1 accurately predicted the changes in ‘human lifespan and growth patterns, 2. believed that we would all have huge refrigerators in our homes. 3 thought that higher education would be free to everybody. 4 believed that more and more people ‘would move to the cities. B Josephine Daskam Bacon ... 5 wasa science fiction author, who ‘wrote novels about women's lives in 50 years’ time. 6 believed her granddaughters would be able to cope with both jobs and running the home. 7 doubted that technology would make future women happier with their lot. C ‘The Pennsylvanian schoolchildren ... 8 buried a time capsule which was dug up prematurely. 9. wrote stories about living on the ‘moon. 10_ predicted space tourism. 4 @ These lines are very similar to those in the audio. Listen again and replace the words in italics with the words used in the 1 We are taking a break from discussing technological advances. 2. We are going to use three topics as a launch to our discussion. 3 The article was charmingly called ‘What may happen in the next hundred years? 4. He couldn't possibly have had an idea of them, 5 [recently came actoss a minor author who wrote a similar article 6 Many feminists passionately hoped for the invention of a ‘meal- in-a-pill 7 Young women quickly started to like the radio, much to the disappointment of the male population, 8 She also foresaw women flying to their jobs in little planes. Unit I + Our high-tech world 77 Reading 6 Future technology 1. Look at the titles of four short newspaper articles about potential technological advances. Which do you think is about ... ? + anew fail-safe way of connecting by phone + monitoring our health + learning how to programme for ourselves + using our bodies as passwords 2 @ Read and listen to the articles and complete each cone with a line from below. 1 And if they go down, your immediate means of communication go with it. 2. Within a decade we could all become our own doctors. 3. It seems we are delighted to be able to control our own technology, given the chance. 4. Will we ever be able to simplify our complicated technological world? EY THERE’S AN AURA Te Ice) awe THAT’S ONLY YOU shell ay lass How many passwords do you currently have for cards, ‘gadgets, and online accounts? How many times have ‘you forgotten a password and had to come up with a new one? Electronic security is now a major headache as we attempt to keep our devices and personal details safe from increasingly sophisticated hackers. Whatever did we do without our mobiles? Countless lives have been saved since the advent of mobile pphones, due to the speed with which the emergency serviees can now be contacted. But unfortunately, this is not always the case. AS various incidents ‘worldwide ~ terrorist attacks, hurricanes, tsunamis ~ have demonstrated, telecom services can be the first Cambeldge computer expert nek ri believes to collapse or be overloaded in a crisis. so. He and his team are researching an ‘electronic 8 aura’ ~an electronic field around our bodies that would activate our, and only our, gadgets. To create Professor Jonathan Zittrsin of Harvard University itwe would insert microchips in our clothes, glasses, Aho es eave ie capability to bilge te 6 jewelsny und even under our skin, Ousside ter system called a ‘mesh network’ to solve this problem personal ‘aura’, our computer, tablet, smartphone, bank

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