Revision

First conditional (also known as Real Conditional). Complete the sentences.

If I go to school today, no one might be there.

If I enter a supermarket or a bus with no facemask on, I will be fined by the police.

If you don’t have facemask on, you might be stopped by the police and asked to return home.

If we follow the measures, we might overcome the pandemic and get back to normal.

Your own sentence:

If the internet stops working, I won’t be in class.

How will the human body have changed in 100,000 years?

OUR FUTURE WILL BE PERFECT

INTRODUCTION

Charles Darwin thought there were some body parts like

wisdom teeth, tail bone or body hair that lost their purpose
in the course of the evolution of human species. What
purpose do you think they might have served in the past?

INTERVIEW WITH A CYBORG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MAbFxn00i8&t=311s

1) Watch the interview with a colour blind artist Neil Harbisson who has an antenna attached to
his skull
Try to answer the following questions:
- What does the face of the presenter sound like?
different frequencies, different sounds, different colour
- What does the antenna allow him to do?
pick up frequency of the colour which create vibrations
- How can his friends colour his dreams?
internet chip in his head – by mobile phone
- How does he feel when he senses the colours from space?
tiring, because in space there are so many colours
- How could people who design their body like Neil save our planet?
we won’t need artificial light, because we will have night vision and cities would be
dark so we won’t be spending so much energy – the planet would be much better

2) Translate the vocabulary from the interview

vysoká frekvence – high frequency
vysoký tón – high-pitched tone
 akord – (musical) chord
ultrafialová barva – ultraviolet colour
anténa – antenna
umělé světlo – artificial light

HOMEWORK

Watch the interview from 5:11

READ BEFORE WATCHING THE INTERVIEW

Neil has certainly attracted a lot of attention over the years. In the interview, he explains how
people’s guesses about the object he is wearing on his head have changed over the years as new and
new gadgets and devices appeared on the market.

TASK

Here is the list of gadgets people compared his antenna to. Can you match them with the year the
comparison was made?

2004-2006-2007-2009-2012-2015-2019

selfie stick – 2015

go-pro camera – 2009

hands free phone – 2007

reading light – 2004

google glass – 2012

Pokemon go – 2019

microphone – 2006

bonus questions***
✔ Will humans integrate with technologies?
Have you heard of such experiments?
In a few decades probably yes. Many
people who have suffered any serious
injury already currently use robotic
prosthesis. I even read about creation
where a London company assembled a
“bionic man”. He has artificial intelligence, artificial lungs, artificial skin or even
artificial heart.
✔ What do we call science that creates artificial devices that can work as parts of living
organisms?
a) implant-technology
b) bionics
c) biotechnology