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Newla nguage 1 Read the predictions in the chart. Then read predictions A–F Comprehension
below. Think about these questions and complete the chart.
Grammar: Future predictions with will/won’t • When will predictions A–F come true? 2 1
18 Listen and check your answers.
– positive, negative, questions and short • Are they likely to happen or unlikely to happen?
answers, wh-ques tions TOMORROW’S WORLD: What will life be like in the future?
✓✗
Vocabulary: Technology MOST LIKELY LESS LIKELY
Preparation: Exercise 8: Book a computer Smart TVs will
in one
People will use eco-friendly
E or two
room. be connected
1
years’
electric bikes to get
to the Internet. around town.
time
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? 4 Which of the things in Exercise 3 …
1 didn’t exist five years ago/ten years ago?
A B ✓ C
• Students read the questions, look at the
2 can you carry in your school bag?
3 are the most useful on holiday? 3 What year is the article about?
pictures and predict the answers.
4 would you like to have? • Play the recording. Students listen and tick.
5 will change the most in the future?
• Play the recording again, pausing to check
A B C ✓
Grammar answers.
4 What’s Dylan looking at?
Future predictions with
will/won’t Answers ➞ student page
Positive A✓ B C
People will use eco-friendly AUDIOSCRIPT PAGE 105
electric bikes to get around town. About you
Planes will be able to fly without pilots.
Negative 7 What do you think your life will be like in ten 7 What do you think your life will be like in
Planes won’t need pilots. years’ time? Ask and answer.
Students won’t go to school to learn. 1 A: Where will you be in ten years?
ten years’ time? Ask and answer.
Questions B: I won’t be in Spain. I’ll be in the USA!
• Open or closed pairs take it in turns to ask
What will life be like in fifty years’ time? 1 Where / be? 5 What / your home / be like?
Will homes be different? 2 What job / have? 6 What kind of holidays / and answer.
Yes, they will./No, they won’t. 3 Have / family? you / have?
won’t = will not 4 Have / car?
The future form of can = will/won’t be able to
Writing Suggestion: Elicit questions 1–6 fi rst. Have a
8 Write your predictions about life in seventy
weak class repeat them after you in chorus
5 Read the text in Exercise 1 again and answer
the questions.
years’ time. before they ask and answer.
• What will people be like?
1 How will education be different in ten years’ time? • What will homes be like?
in twenty-five years’ time? • What will young people do in their free time?
In ten years’ time, all classrooms will be connected
to the Internet.
8 Write your predictions about life in seventy
Life in seventy years’ time
2 How will buildings change in the future?
People will have bionic eyes and metal arms and years’ time.
vel 3 How will home life be different in the future? legs. Their clothes will have … . Homes will … .
es 4 How will transport be different in the future? • Brainstorm possible answers to the questions
5 What will people do in fifty years’ time?
> Now turn to Unit 2A in the Activity Book. fi rst. (e.g. Their clothes will have chargers for
17 electronic devices. Homes will have robots.
They’ll be very high. Young people will play
virtual games/have virtual holidays/travel to
• Remind them we invert the subject and will to the moon.)
form a question. • Give students plenty of time to write. Move
• Give more examples of will + be able tot o round the class prompting and checking.
express the future of can (e.g. After this lesson
you’ll be able to make predictions about the Suggestion: Have them write on a computer
future in English! ). in class or at home. They could find and
• Students fi nd and underline more examples of download photos to illustrate their work.
will and won’t in the text in Exercise 1. Make a display!
5 Read the text in Exercise 1 again and answer
the questions. Ending the lesson
• With a weak class, check electronic devices,e.g. airs choose the most important piece of
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ask for or give examples. technology in their lives. Different pairs tell the
• Students read the questions. They read the text class and explain their choice.
again and write their answers. Move round the
class checking and prompting.
• Invite different students to read their answers Learning difficulties
to the class. Students with dyslexia may fi nd Exercise 1 very
challenging. Support them by asking confi dent
Sample answers readers to read the predictions aloud while the
2 Many buildings will be higher than others follow. Discuss each as you go. This will
10 kilometers. also motivate strong students. Then discuss A–F
3 Every home will have wireless Internet (wi-fi ). and complete the chart with the whole class.
4 Planes won’t need pilots. They will fl y by
remote control. Photocopiable Resource 2A. You can use this
5 In fi fty years’ time people will be able to choose resource any time after Exercise 6.
their children’s personality.
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Unit 2, B 1 1
21 Listen and read. Choose the correct
words.
Grandma: Fran, can you help me? I want to send
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a letter / an email to your uncle in Italy
Newla nguage but I don’t know how to use your mum’s
laptop.
Grammar: First conditional + will/won’t Fran: Sure, Grandma. Let me see. OK, you’re in
– positive, negative, questions and short Mum’s inbox. If you click on this button, a
‘new message’ box will come up.
answers, wh-ques tions Grandma: Oh, I see. So I type into that.
Fran: Right. Then you’ll need to add Uncle
Vocabulary: Using technology Marcello’s 2 address / name.
Grandma: Well, I think it’s Via Venezia but I don’t
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know / remember the number. Can you
Warm-up pass me my address book? If you open my
bag, you’ll see it.
• (Books closed) Have students tell you how Fran: Er, Grandma, you need his email address,
not his home address.
they think your town will be different in the Grandma: Oh, silly me! 4 I don’t think / I’m not sure
future, e.g. In two years’ time there won’t be Fran:
I’ve got that.
If we look in Mum’s contacts list, we’ll
Vocabulary: Using technology
any cars in the town centre . (Note their ideas probably find it. Yes, here it is. 4 1
23 Listen and repeat. Then match nine nouns
from the box with the objects in the picture.
for Ending the lesson.) Grandma: Thanks, Fran. Don’t go away. I won’t be
able to remember what to do!
Fran: No problem, Grandma. By the way, Nouns: battery contacts (list) e-book reader 9
Lead-in 5
I’m afraid / I’m sorry you won’t be able to
print your email. Our printer’s broken.
email address icon keyboard 7 mouse 8
online game 3 plug 1 printer 4 screen 2
correct words.
Comprehension
• Play the recording. Students listen, read and
3 Read again and complete the sentences with
choose. one word from the dialogue. 2
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English today
• Draw students’ attention to the English today
box. 1
• Students repeat each phrase after you in 4 Listen and repeat. Then match nine nouns
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chorus, using appropriate intonation. from the box with the objects in the
• Have them fi nd and underline the expressions picture.
in the dialogue in Exercise 1. • Give students time to read the words in the box.
1 • Play the recording. Students listen and repeat
2 Listen and repeat the dialogue.
22 each word/phrase.
• Play the recording. Students listen and repeat • Pairs match the nouns in the box with
each line in chorus during the pauses. objects 1–9.
• Divide the class into two. Allocate roles. Play
the recording again. Students repeat their Answers ➞ student page
lines during the pauses.
5 Match six verbs from the box in Exercise 4
3 Read again and complete the sentences with with the icons.
one word from the dialogue.
• Pairs match the words and icons.
• Students silently read the sentences.
• They read the dialogue in Exercise 1 again
Answers
and complete individually.
2 download 3 print 4 send (an email)
Answers ➞ student page 5 shut down 6s ave
Suggestion: Have the class tell you if their Suggestion: (Books closed) Divide the class into
older relatives use a computer and, if so, two teams. Say a verb from the box in Exercise 4
what for. Students tell you what their older to each team in turn. They suggest a collocation.
relatives’ computer skills are like. For instance, say download … ( a photo! ) The
team with the most correct collocations wins.
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Newla nguage 1 2 3
Warm-up
Tara: Hey, Dylan, how do I download Tara: OK, the camera is connected to Tara: All right. You sit here, then.
• Role play. Student A imagines he/she is photos from my new camera? the computer. Now what do I do? Dylan: Something’s wrong. It’s still not
an elderly relative who isn’t good with Dylan: I’ll show you. First, you need a Dylan: If you click on the camera icon, working.
USB cable. the computer will start downloading Tara: Look, I’ll just ask Tom to help me.
technology. Student B is himself/herself. A Tara: OK. I think it’s in the camera box. the photos. He’s good with computers.
asks B how to do different things using ideas Shall I go and get it?
Dylan: Yes, please. I can’t use the one
Tara: OK. Hmm, am I doing it right?
Nothing’s happening.
Dylan: No, I’ll do it. Here. Oops!
Tara: Oh, Dylan, no! Now the
in Unit 2B. B explains. from my camera. They’re different. Dylan: That’s strange. Let me have computer’s crashing!
a look. 1
2
Lead-in 1 English today
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2 25 Complete the dialogue with sentences a–e. 4
• (Books closed) Ask the class Who likes taking Then listen and check. • I’ll show you (how to do it). • I’ll ask (Tom) to
photos? What do you take them with? ( A Fran: Tom, how do I download music from the computer
to my MP3 player?
• Shall I go and get it? help me.
• Let me have a look. • I’ll do/fix it.
digital camera, a phone ) Tom: 1 I’ll show you . First, you need a USB cable to
• Ask Who in your family knows how to connect the MP3 player to the computer.
Fran: I’ve got one in my room. 2 e Your turn
download photos to a computer? Tom: No, don’t worry. 3 a They’re the same.
3 Use the ideas below and Exercise 2 to help
• (Books open) Ask the class about the photos, OK, now, if you click on the MP3 icon, it’ll start
downloading the music. you write a dialogue. Then act it out.
e.g. (Photo 1) What can you see? ( A laptop, a Fran: Am I doing it right? Nothing’s happening. A: Ask how to download a video from your phone to
Tom: That’s strange. Let me have a look. your computer.
digital camera ) Whose is the camera? What Fran: 4 b She’s got the same MP3 player. B: Offer to show Student A. Say you need a USB cable.
are they talking about? (Students predict.) Tom: 5 d There you are, it’s downloading. A: Your mum’s got a USB cable. Offer to get it.
B: Say you’ve got a USB cable. Say, if you click on the
Fran: Thanks, Tom!
(Photo 2) What are they doing? (Students phone icon on the computer, it’ll download the video.
predict.) (Photo 3) Is Dylan happy? (No ) Why? a I’ll use mine.
b I’ll ask Mum to help me.
d No, I’ll do it.
e Shall I go and
A: Say nothing is happening. Your cousin Alison
knows a lot about downloading videos.
(Students predict.) c I’ll show you. get it? B: Say you’ll do it.
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1 24 Listen and read.
• Play the recording while students listen and
read. 2 1
25Complete the dialogue with sentences
• Check students’ predictions. (Photo 1) It’s
a–e. Then listen and check.
Tara’s camera. They’re talking about how to
download photos. (Photo 2) Dylan’s helping • Tell students Tom’s helping Fran to download
Tara download photos. (Photo 3) Dylan isn’t music from a computer to her MP3 player. Have
happy because it isn’t working. students quickly read the dialogue and tell you
if he’s successful. ( Yes. )
See Introduction page iv. • Students read a–e. They read the dialogue
• Play the video all the way through. Then play again and complete.
it again, pausing after each section to ask • Play the recording. Students listen and check.
comprehension questions. • Play the recording again, pausing to check
• Tell students (L1) there is another version of answers.
the video with a different ending. Ask for Answers ➞ student page
suggestions for another ending. Then play the
alternative version. Ask how many students
guessed correctly. (Answer: Dylan downloads Fastfi nishers: Have pairs practise the dialogue.
the photos. Tara thinks he’s a genius.)
English today
Suggestion: Have students choose either the • Draw students’ attention to the English today
first or alternative dialogue and act it out in box.
pairs. • Have them repeat each sentence after you in
chorus. Remind them about the importance of
AUDIOSCRIPT PAGE 105 intonation.
• Get them to fi nd and underline the sentences
(or similar ones) in the dialogues in Exercises 1
and 2.
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me.
She loves fixing things! If she can’t help, I’ll lend you my
camera. It’s a bit old but it takes good photos. You can keys so please dont’ go
out. ( Texts 1 and 2 – on a computer. Text 3 – at
use it for your school project. Mum home. It’s a note .)
Bye for now,
Georgia • Students read and add nine more missing
Your turn apostrophes.
1 Jenny’s camera isn’t working.
2 ........... can’t help her. 6 Read the email from your friend Edgar and
3 ........... will look at Jenny’s camera. write a reply. Use Exercise 4 to help.
Answers ➞ student page
4 ........... will give Jenny her old camera. • offer to help
• say where and when to meet
Writing tip
• offer to lend him your MP3 player if you can’t fix his 6 Read the email from your friend Edgar and
Apostrophes (’) write a reply. Use Exercise 4 to help.
Subject: MP3 player
• Students read Edgar’s email. Check
send save
We use an apostrophe …
– to show that some letters are missing. Hi,
Answers
2 Georgia 3 Georgia’s friend Alice 4 Georgia
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room. 2 a
If every student in the class has a tablet
computer and our school has a wi-fi network,
learning will be much more interesting. We’ll
Warm-up be able to work together and do projects and
share ideas. We’ll be able to work at our own
• Write the English today sentences from speed when our teacher gives us exercises.
Unit 2C on the board with a word missing Also, we’ll be able to connect with students in
classrooms all over the world and talk to each
in each. Students write/tell you the missing other live online. It’s a great way to improve
our English!
words. Marta, 14, Spain
• Pairs choose a sentence. They write a two- 3 b
line (A: …/B: ….) mini-dialogue using the Interactive video games are lots of fun and they’re
also educational. Games can teach students En
sentence. Different pairs read their sentences about the real world. Some games teach us about
On t
to the class. different places and different times in history. One
day maybe we won’t need books to learn about
for u
history. We’ll use special headsets or glasses and go SCH
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1 26 Listen and read. Match the headings
(a–c) with the texts (1–3).
• Play the recording. Students listen and read. Study tip
• They read the headings and do the matching • Students tell you how they remember new
exercise. words.
Answers ➞ student page • Students silently read the tip.
• Pairs write example sentences together.
• Draw students’ attention to New words.
Remind them to use the context and photos Suggestion: Alternatively, work with a whole
to help them understand. class if your students are weak. Different
• They fi nd and underline the new words. students write example sentences on the board.
2 Read again and choose the correct answers. Correct them, if necessary, with the class.
There are two for each question.
• Students read questions 1–3.
• They read the text in Exercise 1 again, Tip: Have students create a separate vocabulary
underlining the relevant parts as they go, and section in their notebooks. Encourage them to
answer. note new words they learn.
2 Read again and choose the correct answers. What are the advantages of using technology in
Think about it
There are two for each question. the classroom? Are there any disadvantages?
1 With robot teachers …
What are the advantages of using technology in
a everyone can stay at home and learn. Speaking the classroom? Are there any disadvantages?
b all schools can teach Science and Technology.
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c students won’t also need a real teacher.
Choose from the list below three items of
technology to help students learn English.
• Pairs discuss and note the advantages of using
2 With a school wi-fi network …
a you can connect to classrooms around the world.
Discuss in groups and decide which three will technology. Invite different students to tell
be the most useful.
b you can buy new computers.
A: What about a games console? We’ll be able to play
the class their ideas.
c you can work at your own speed in class.
3 Interactive video games … games and watch films in class! • Students tell you any disadvantages they can
a make learning fun. B: I think wi-fi in the classroom is better.
C: OK, so let’s choose wi-fi in the classroom.
think of.
b will never replace books.
c can teach students about subjects like history.
Item How will it help? 4 Choose from the list below three items of
Study tip
games console
tablet computer
play games, watch films
easy to carry, email homework to teacher,
technology to help students learn English.
You’ll remember new words better if you write an
for every won’t need to share computer at home Discuss in groups and decide which three
student
example sentence in your vocabulary notebook.
school communicate with students in other will be the most useful.
connect networking site classes, share ideas
You can connect to the Internet in some cafés. robot or virtual students won’t be embarrassed, fun
• (Books closed) Ask What technology do we
Now write example sentences for these words. teacher use in class? (E.g . a computer, a projector)
improve educational communicate wi-fi in the connect to the Internet in class, lessons
classroom more interactive, work together in class. • (Books open) Students read the information.
Listening
They tell you if anything they said is
Writing: Technology that will help
1 our school mentioned.
3 27 Listen and complete the text.
5 Complete the report.
• Three confi dent students read the example.
English forum online • Groups of three discuss the ideas and choose
On today’s programme, three students talk about their plans Technology that will help our school the three most useful.
for using 1 wireless computer networks in their schools.
SCHOOL 1: Sonia
Our group chose these items of technology for
learning English.
• Different students tell you their ideas.
Plan: Create a networking site for the school. Our first choice was 1 in every classroom. If we
How will it help? Students will be able to 2 make friends can connect to the Internet in class, we’ll be able to work 5 Complete the report.
with students in other classes. together on projects. Lessons will be more interesting.
SCHOOL 2: Sebastian Our second choice was 2 for every student. • Students silently read and complete the
Plan: Play an online 3 quiz game with They’re light and easy to use. You don’t need a monitor or
schools in other countries. keyboard. If every student has one, our school bags won’t report, using the ideas from Exercise 4.
How will it help? Will help students to 4
their English.
improve be so heavy.
Our third choice was 3 . Some games are
• Check answers.
. educational and we’ll use it to watch DVDs, too.
SCHOOL 3: Petra
radio
Plan: Start an Internet 5
station and interview students in English about 6 Write a report about your choices in Exercise 4.
Answers
How will it help?
the kind of music they like.
Students will be able to 6 share
Use Exercise 5 to help. 1 wi-fi 2 a tablet computer 3 a games console
their favourite music.
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Unit 2, E Revision
box.
Y
app contacts list delete download inbox
Y
charger games console smartphone Internet print save wi-fi
Y
digital camera robot remote control
Y
USB cable headset tablet solar power
Language revised 1 You can use this to send text messages to your
Y
Y
friends. smartphone 1 Internet 2 inbox 3 contacts 4 download 5 save
Grammar: Future predictions with will/won’t; 2 If you like taking photos, you’ll need this. list
Y
Y
first conditional + will/won’t 3 You can use this to play video games. Y
4 You can use this to switch on the TV from the sofa. Y
Vocabulary: Technology, Using technology 6 print 7 delete 8 app 9 wi-fi Y
5 If you want to download photos to your computer, Y
Functions: Speaking: Offer help and make you’ll need this.
4 Complete the dialogues. Use a word or phrase
6 If every student has one of these, they won’t need
decisions; Writing: Offer to help to share the home computer.
from A and B and the future form.
Pronunciation: /aɪ/,/ aɪl/ 7 Some cars will use this in the future to replace
petrol.
A
bring your mobile phone
B
download it
8 If you have a mobile phone, you’ll need one of these switch it on find it
to charge the battery. like it do it
it doesn’t, write the letter on the board and Will there be real teachers or virtual teachers? Dialogue 2
Dad: Can I read an e-book on my mobile?
draw one line of a stick drawing of a gallows There won’t be real teachers. There will only be virtual
teachers.
You: Yes, you can. If you , it you
and a man. Students must guess the word 2 students learn in classrooms / online at home?
download e-books.
Dialogue 3
before you finish the drawing. Transport and travel
3 people go away on holiday / have virtual holidays?
A friend: My camera isn’t working!
You: That’s because it’s off. If you , it .
Home life
Lead-in 4 people do housework / robots do everything?
Dialogue 4
Mum: That’s a nice song!
Free time
• ( Books closed) Quiz! Divide the class into 5 people meet friends in real life / only talk online?
You: If you ,I for you.
Dialogue 5
two teams. Teams take it in turns to answer Grandad: I’ll write your email address in my address
questions using language from the unit. book.
You: No, Grandad. If , you more
Possible questions: 1) Where will you be in easily.
twenty years’ time? 2) What will you do if Dialogue 6
Your cousin: How can I print my homework?
there’s no school tomorrow? 3) My computer’s You: If you , the computer
crashed. Offer to help me. (Let me have a 24
automatically.
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iz
Fun Time! Quick Qu
Newla nguage
Vocabulary: riddle, To tell the truth, I don’t Are you a technology whiz?
care, sight, album, engineer, battle, circuit, Read the riddles about famous film Do the quiz to find out!
and TV characters and guess who they
warning are. Can you write a riddle about your
1 Laptops and tablets are …
a websites.
favourite film or TV character?
Preparation: Quick quiz: Book a computer
Who am I?
b computers.
c games.
room.
2 WWW stands for …
The activities can be done in any order as they 1 a Watch Where you Walk.
I fly through the air but I haven’t got wings. b Wild Wild West.
are not related to each other. You could assign I wear a metal suit and fight evil things. c World Wide Web.
one activity to the whole class or different I’m clever and love to have money and fame.
I’m Tony Stark but I’ve got another name. 3 The first computer
activities to different students according to ronI naM
2
mouse was
made of …
their strengths. Some think I’m pretty, and some do not. a wood.
There’s a big green man I love a lot. b plastic.
I’m bossy, I’m kind, I can get angry. c paper.
I sometimes eat eggs … when I’m hungry.
Homer Simpson is married to Marge in the 7 The … invented the first robot
hundreds of years ago.
American cartoon series The Simpsons. a Chinese
Quick quiz (2) Tim Berners-Lee invented the b Japanese
c Americans
World Wide Web in 1989. The ‘Web’ is a way of Why did the computer What stays in the corner but 8 Bill Gates started the
accessing information over the Internet. get glasses? travels all over the world? company …
(3) Douglas Engelbart made the first computer To improve its web sight! A stamp.
a Microsoft.
b Sony.
mouse in 1964. (4) Spacewar! was invented by a c Apple Macintosh.
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group of American students in 1961. (6) iPhones
are smartphones designed by Apple Inc. (7) A
water clock built by the eleventh-century Chinese
inventor Su Song, had mechanical figurines Fun time!
which chimed the hours. It’s often considered • Use the photos to generate interest. Ask the
the first robotic invention. (8) The American Bill class Who are they? Students tell you their
Gates founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1976. ideas. Check riddle, e.g. translate or have them
Guess what? John Elfreth Watkins (1852–1903) guess one you know in your language.
was a civil engineer from America. People • Students read the riddles and guess who
telegraphed messages in the nineteenth and part they’re about. Don’t tell them the answers.
of the twentieth century using electric signals • They unjumble the words to find the
through wires. 1 mile = 1.6 kilometres. 150 miles characters’ names.
per hour = 241 kilometres per hour. • Check answers.
Warm-up Answers
• Game! Play Whisper down the line. Divide the 1 Iron Man 2 Princess Fiona 3 Homer Simpson
class into teams/rows. Whisper a new word
or very short sentence from Unit 2 to the first
student in each row. Each student whispers Suggestion: Have students tell you what they
it to the person directly in front of or next to know about the characters. (See Culture notes.)
him/her once only. The last team member to
hear it writes it on the board. Correct words/ • Ask the class How many lines have the riddles
sentences win a point. Start again. got? (Four) Point out the first and second, and
third and fourth lines rhyme. Students give you
examples of rhyming words in the riddles.
• Working in pairs, students choose a film or
TV character they both like and write a riddle
about him/her.
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magazine
?
Guess what
Guess what?
• (Books closed) Brainstorm technology
In 1900, an American engineer called John Elfreth Watkins made some predictions
about the year 2000. Read the text. What inventions did he predict?
discussed in the unit that students think did
Predictions by John Elfreth Watkins in 1900
NOT exist in 1900. Explain that 100 years
People will be able to send photographs from any ago people communicated by telegraph (see
distance. In a hundred years, if there is a battle in China,
photographs will be in the newspapers one hour later.
Culture notes). Elicit/check engineer, battle
Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will go all around and circuit, e.g. by giving examples.
the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
will be able to speak to his wife sitting at home in Chicago. • (Books open) Ask a student to read the
We will be able to telephone China just as we telephone
New York from Brooklyn.
introduction (In 1900 … ). Draw students’
People will see around the world. Cameras thousands of attention to the photo of the 1900 magazine
miles apart will connect to screens at opposite ends and
show us all kinds of people and things. article.
Trains will run two miles a minute normally. Express trains
will run one hundred and fifty miles per hour.
• Students read. Pairs identify the inventions
Watkins predicted.
• They tell you their ideas. Explain people use
How to … predict the weather. miles not kilometres in some countries (see
Here are four ways to make weather predictions. Do you think Culture notes).
they’re true? Do you know any more ways to predict the weather?
1 It will probably rain if the
grass is dry early in the morning, Answers
there are clouds and it’s a bit Digital photography, the Internet/World Wide
windy. If the grass is a bit wet, it
won’t rain. Web, mobile phones, high speed trains
3 Close your eyes and smell
2 Remember this rhyme: ‘Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight. the air. If you can smell the
… Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning.’ flowers, it will probably rain.
If the sky is very red in the west when the sun goes down, it will be
hot and sunny.
Flowers smell strong in wet air. Suggestion: Pairs predict one way in which
If the sky is very red in the east when the sun comes up, it will the world will be different in 100 years’ time.
t
probably rain.
They tell the class.
How to …
4 Hair goes curly when it’s
wet. If you’ve got curly hair • (Books closed) Ask the class What will the
and your hair goes even more weather be like tomorrow? Have them tell
curly, it will probably rain.
you. Then ask how they know (e.g. a weather
27 forecast, how they feel, etc.). Check warning,
e.g. say If you warn someone, you tell them
something bad might happen.
Just joking! • (Books open) Different students read the
• Ask the class what they can see in the cartoons. predictions aloud. After each, ask Do you
Use them to check sight and stamp. think it’s true? The class tells you their ideas.
• Two confident volunteers read the questions Use the pictures to check shepherd and smell
and answers. if necessary.
• Have the class explain why they’re jokes. (Web • Students tell you any other ways they know
site is pronounced the same as sight = vision. to predict weather.
You put a stamp on the corner of an envelope.)
Learning difficulties
Quick quiz Students with learning difficulties may find
• Give pairs time to do the quiz. Check album, writing riddles challenging. Pair them with
e.g. elicit/explain it’s a collection of different a strong student. They both discuss ideas for
pieces of music on one CD. their riddle then the strong student does
the writing. You could encourage them both
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to memorise it if you think it’s appropriate.
This may help some students with learning
Suggestion: Have students use the Internet to difficulties as they may be better at this.
help them answer the quiz. Alternatively, divide
the class into two teams. Teams take it in turns to
answer to win a point.
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